College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

December 15, 1952 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference
1	< NR	La Salle
2	< 3	Kansas State	Big 7
3	< 2	Illinois	Big Ten
4	< 14	Seton Hall
5	< NR	Oklahoma State	Missouri Valley
6	< NR	NC State
7	< NR	Notre Dame
8	< 13	Holy Cross
9	< 6	Washington
10	< NR	LSU	SEC
11	< NR	Western Kentucky
12	< 19	UCLA
13	< NR	Oklahoma City
14	< 15	St. Bonaventure
15	< NR	Tulsa
16	< NR	Minnesota	Big Ten
17	< 5	Saint Louis
18	< NR	California
19	< NR	Indiana	Big Ten
20	< 8	Kansas	Big 7
20	< NR	Navy

First-place votes, W-L records, and total points are not available prior to 2001-02. If you have some of this data from a verifiable source, please contact me.
Regular-season polls from 1949-60 had 20 teams, from 1961-68 had 10 teams (except in December 1960 and the 1964-65 preseason polls), and 1990-present had 25 teams.
Preseason polls started in the 1961-62 season, and there were post-tournament polls in 1953, 1954, 1974, and 1975.
All poll dates fall on Mondays with a few exceptions. See explanation here.