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January 24, 1949 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Points
1	<	1	Saint Louis (39)		938
2	<	2	Kentucky (33)	SEC	896
3	<	5	Oklahoma State (15)	Missouri Valley	710
4	<	3	Western Kentucky (9)		654
5	<	4	Minnesota (8)	Big Ten	637
6	<	7	Illinois	Big Ten	315
7	<	8	Hamline		212
8	<	9	Villanova		159
9	<	6	San Francisco		146
10	<	10	Utah		129
11	<	17	Stanford		102
12	<	11	Tulane		97
13	<	12	Loyola Chicago		85
14	<	18	Washington State		82
15	<	NR	NC State (1)		50
16	<	NR	DePaul		40
17	<	18	Butler		37
18	<	NR	Baylor	Southwest	36
18	<	16	Bradley		36
20	<	14	Holy Cross		33

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.