College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

December 15, 2014 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	< 1	Kentucky (65)	SEC	11-0	1625	*1
2	< 2	Duke	ACC	8-0	1545	*2
3	< 3	Arizona	Pac-12	10-0	1505	*3
4	< 4	Louisville	ACC	9-0	1349	4
5	< 5	Wisconsin	Big Ten	10-1	1331	6
6	< 6	Virginia	ACC	9-0	1294	5
7	< 7	Villanova	Big East	10-0	1215	7
8	< 9	Gonzaga	West Coast	9-1	1175	8
9	< 8	Texas	Big 12	8-1	1154	9
10	< 10	Kansas	Big 12	8-1	1102	10
11	< 11	Wichita State	Missouri Valley	7-1	959	11
12	< 12	Ohio State	Big Ten	8-1	838	12
13	< 14	Iowa State	Big 12	8-1	772	13
14	< 13	Utah	Pac-12	7-2	670	14
15	< 16	Oklahoma	Big 12	6-2	647	15
16	< 17	Washington	Pac-12	8-0	598	16
17	< 19	Maryland	Big Ten	10-1	512	18
18	< 20	Miami (FL)	ACC	9-1	426	19
19	< 18	San Diego State	Mountain West	7-2	424	17
20	< 24	St. John's	Big East	8-1	353	23
21	< 25	Notre Dame	ACC	10-1	351	21
22	< 22	West Virginia	Big 12	9-1	333	20
23	< 15	Butler	Big East	8-2	259	25
24	< 21	North Carolina	ACC	6-3	122	24
25	< NR	Michigan State	Big Ten	7-3	116	22
RV	< NR	Baylor	Big 12	8-1	97	RV
RV	< NR	TCU	Big 12	10-0	80	RV
RV	< NR	Colorado State	Mountain West	10-0	75	RV
RV	< 23	Northern Iowa	Missouri Valley	9-1	65	RV
RV	< NR	Georgetown	Big East	6-3	41	RV
RV	< NR	California	Pac-12	9-1	37	RV
RV	< NR	Arkansas	SEC	7-2	19	RV
RV	< NR	Seton Hall	Big East	8-1	14	RV
RV	< NR	VCU	Atlantic 10	6-3	6	RV
RV	< NR	LSU	SEC	7-2	4	RV
RV	< NR	Oklahoma State	Big 12	8-1	4	RV
RV	< NR	Old Dominion	Conference USA	7-1	4	RV
RV	< NR	Penn State	Big Ten	10-1	3	RV
RV	< NR	Davidson	Atlantic 10	8-1	1	NR
NR	< NR	Florida	SEC	6-4	0	RV
NR	< NR	Illinois	Big Ten	7-3	0	RV
NR	< NR	Iowa	Big Ten	8-3	0	RV
NR	< NR	Minnesota	Big Ten	8-2	0	RV
NR	< NR	Saint Mary's	West Coast	6-1	0	RV

CONFERENCE BREAKDOWN
Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
ACC	6	12.5	5087
Big 12	5	13.8	4008
Big Ten	4	14.8	2797
Pac-12	3	11.0	2773
Big East	3	16.7	1827
SEC	1	1.0	1625
West Coast	1	8.0	1175
Missouri Valley	1	11.0	959
Mountain West	1	19.0	424

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.