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2026 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	3	Michigan (57)	Big Ten	37-3	1425	1
2	<	7	Connecticut	Big East	34-6	1352	2
3	<	2	Arizona	Big 12	36-3	1311	3
4	<	1	Duke	ACC	35-3	1237	4
5	<	13	Illinois	Big Ten	28-9	1228	5
6	<	8	Purdue	Big Ten	30-9	1113	7
7	<	5	Houston	Big 12	30-7	1021	6
8	<	6	Iowa State	Big 12	29-8	924	8
9	<	4	Florida	SEC	27-8	909	9
10	<	10	St. John's	Big East	30-7	891	10
11	<	11	Michigan State	Big Ten	27-8	865	11
12	<	23	Tennessee	SEC	25-12	756	12
13	<	14	Arkansas	SEC	28-9	716	13
14	<	15	Nebraska	Big Ten	28-7	696	14
15	<	NR	Iowa	Big Ten	24-13	620	19
16	<	18	Alabama	SEC	25-10	617	16
17	<	9	Virginia	ACC	30-6	530	15
18	<	12	Gonzaga	West Coast	31-4	459	18
19	<	16	Vanderbilt	SEC	27-9	445	17
20	<	17	Kansas	Big 12	24-11	330	20
21	<	20	Texas Tech	Big 12	23-11	244	21
22	<	NR	Texas	SEC	21-15	216	24
23	<	23	Louisville	ACC	24-11	150	23
24	<	25	Miami (FL)	ACC	26-9	89	22
25	<	19	Wisconsin	Big Ten	24-11	70	25
RV	<	NR	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10		51	RV
RV	<	NR	UCLA	Big Ten		51	RV
RV	<	NR	Utah State	Mountain West		45	RV
RV	<	NR	High Point	Big South		37	RV
RV	<	NR	VCU	Atlantic 10		29	RV
RV	<	NR	Miami (OH)	MAC		26	RV
RV	<	NR	BYU	Big 12		15	RV
RV	<	NR	Kentucky	SEC		14	RV
RV	<	21	North Carolina	ACC		14	RV
RV	<	NR	TCU	Big 12		9	NR
RV	<	22	Saint Mary's	West Coast		7	RV
RV	<	NR	Texas A&M	SEC		7	NR
RV	<	NR	Akron	MAC		3	NR
RV	<	NR	Ohio State	Big Ten		2	NR
RV	<	NR	Auburn	SEC		1	NR
NR	<	NR	UCF	Big 12		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Villanova	Big East		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big Ten	7	11.0	6017
SEC	6	15.2	3659
Big 12	5	11.8	3830
ACC	4	17.0	2006
Big East	2	6.0	2243
West Coast	1	18.0	459

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.