College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

December 20, 1954 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference
1	< 2	Kentucky	SEC
2	< 15	Utah
3	< 3	Illinois	Big Ten
4	< 1	La Salle
5	< 4	NC State	ACC
6	< 5	Dayton
7	< 6	Missouri	Big 7
8	< 11	George Washington
9	< 9	Duquesne
10	< 10	Niagara
11	< 14	Ohio State	Big Ten
12	< NR	West Virginia
13	< NR	USC
14	< 12	Louisville
14	< 17	Wichita State
16	< NR	Penn	Ivy
17	< NR	San Francisco
17	< 8	UCLA
19	< NR	Alabama	SEC
20	< 13	Iowa	Big Ten
20	< NR	Kansas	Big 7

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.