1997 Preseason AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)		Conference		W-L		PTS
1	< 7		Cincinnati
2	< 4		Kansas		Big 12
3	< 2		Kentucky		SEC
4	< 9		Wake Forest
5	< 14		UCLA
6	< 12		Utah
7	< 10		Villanova
8	< 25		North Carolina
9	< NR		Michigan		Big Ten
10	< NR		Duke
11	< 17		Iowa State		Big 12
12	< 15		Syracuse
13	< NR		Arkansas
14	< NR		Fresno State
15	< 1		Massachusetts
16	< NR		Texas		Big 12
17	< 23		New Mexico
18	< NR		Stanford
19	< 11		Arizona
20	< NR		Clemson
21	< NR		Boston College
22	< NR		Minnesota		Big Ten
23	< 21		Iowa		Big Ten
24	< NR		George Washington (DC)
25	< 20		Marquette

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NOTES
- 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.
- Poll dates from 1948-49 to 2006-07 fall on Tuesdays with a few exceptions. Dates from 2007-08 to present fall on Mondays.
- Some of this weekly poll data was contributed to the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Game

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