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January 31, 1949 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Points
1	<	2	Kentucky (39)	SEC	668
2	<	1	Saint Louis (25)		619
3	<	3	Oklahoma State (4)	Missouri Valley	515
4	<	6	Illinois (1)	Big Ten	410
5	<	5	Minnesota	Big Ten	345
6	<	4	Western Kentucky (1)		322
7	<	8	Villanova		189
8	<	7	Hamline		183
9	<	11	Stanford (1)		107
10	<	9	San Francisco		92
11	<	12	Tulane		72
12	<	10	Utah		62
13	<	13	Loyola Chicago		48
14	<	NR	Bowling Green		27
15	<	17	Butler		24
15	<	NR	New York		24
17	<	15	NC State		23
18	<	18	Bradley		20
19	<	20	Holy Cross		17
20	<	NR	Eastern Kentucky		16
NR	<	19	Baylor	Southwest	0
NR	<	16	DePaul		0
NR	<	14	Washington State		0

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.