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March 8, 1971 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 UCLA Pac-8
2 < 2 Marquette
3 < 3 USC Pac-8
4 < 5 Penn Ivy
5 < 4 Kansas Big 8
6 < 6 South Carolina
7 < 7 Western Kentucky
8 < 8 Kentucky SEC
9 < 9 Jacksonville
10 < 10 Fordham
11 < 11 Duquesne
12 < 13 Ohio State Big Ten
13 < 12 North Carolina ACC
14 < 16 Notre Dame
15 < 14 Tennessee SEC
16 < 20 Utah State
17 < 17 Long Beach State
18 < 15 Houston
19 < NR Duke ACC
20 < NR Miami (OH)

Notes

  • 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.