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February 23, 2026 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	3	Duke (56)	ACC	25-2	1520	*1
2	<	4	Arizona (5)	Big 12	25-2	1439	*2
3	<	1	Michigan	Big Ten	25-2	1433	3
4	<	6	Iowa State	Big 12	23-4	1272	5
5	<	2	Houston	Big 12	23-4	1251	4
6	<	5	Connecticut	Big East	25-3	1211	6
7	<	12	Florida	SEC	21-6	1112	7
8	<	7	Purdue	Big Ten	22-5	1062	8
9	<	11	Gonzaga	West Coast	27-2	1039	9
10	<	10	Illinois	Big Ten	22-6	895	11
11	<	14	Virginia	ACC	24-3	884	12
12	<	9	Nebraska	Big Ten	23-4	858	10
13	<	15	Michigan State	Big Ten	22-5	856	13
14	<	8	Kansas	Big 12	20-7	774	14
15	<	17	St. John's	Big East	22-5	763	15
16	<	13	Texas Tech	Big 12	20-7	592	16
17	<	25	Alabama	SEC	20-7	402	18
18	<	16	North Carolina	ACC	21-6	388	19
19	<	23	BYU	Big 12	20-7	361	23
20	<	20	Arkansas	SEC	20-7	356	17
21	<	22	Miami (OH)	MAC	27-0	335	25
22	<	NR	Tennessee	SEC	20-7	288	22
23	<	18	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10	25-2	242	24
24	<	21	Louisville	ACC	20-7	186	20
25	<	19	Vanderbilt	SEC	21-6	171	21
RV	<	24	Wisconsin	Big Ten		47	RV
RV	<	NR	Saint Mary's	West Coast		30	RV
RV	<	NR	Villanova	Big East		15	RV
RV	<	NR	Miami (FL)	ACC		10	RV
RV	<	NR	Utah State	Mountain West		8	RV
RV	<	NR	NC State	ACC		7	NR
RV	<	NR	SMU	ACC		4	NR
RV	<	NR	Iowa	Big Ten		3	RV
RV	<	NR	Texas A&M	SEC		3	NR
RV	<	NR	UCF	Big 12		3	NR
RV	<	NR	High Point	Big South		2	NR
RV	<	NR	Stephen F. Austin	Southland		2	NR
RV	<	NR	Navy	Patriot		1	NR
NR	<	NR	Clemson	ACC		0	NR
NR	<	NR	Georgia	SEC		0	NR

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big 12	6	10.0	5689
Big Ten	5	9.2	5104
SEC	5	18.2	2329
ACC	4	13.5	2978
Big East	2	10.5	1974
West Coast	1	9.0	1039
MAC	1	21.0	335
Atlantic 10	1	23.0	242

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.