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1971 Preseason AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record
1	<	2	UCLA	Pac-8	0-0
2	<	6	South Carolina		0-0
3	<	1	Kentucky	SEC	0-0
4	<	4	Jacksonville		0-0
5	<	9	Notre Dame		0-0
6	<	8	Marquette		0-0
7	<	20	USC	Pac-8	0-0
8	<	NR	Villanova		0-0
9	<	18	Western Kentucky		0-0
10	<	14	Drake		0-0
11	<	13	Penn	Ivy	0-0
12	<	16	Utah State		0-0
13	<	NR	Duke	ACC	0-0
14	<	NR	Kansas	Big 8	0-0
15	<	5	New Mexico State		0-0
16	<	NR	Indiana	Big Ten	0-0
17	<	12	Houston		0-0
18	<	19	Long Beach State		0-0
19	<	10	NC State	ACC	0-0
20	<	3	St. Bonaventure		0-0

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.