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December 20, 1971 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 UCLA Pac-8
2 < 2 Marquette
3 < 3 South Carolina
4 < 4 North Carolina ACC
5 < 10 USC Pac-8
6 < 10 Ohio State Big Ten
7 < 6 BYU
8 < 12 Indiana Big Ten
9 < 13 Long Beach State
10 < 8 St. John's
11 < 7 Kentucky SEC
12 < 16 Louisiana
13 < 5 Penn Ivy
14 < 9 Florida State Independent
15 < 15 Maryland ACC
16 < 14 Jacksonville
17 < NR Ohio
18 < 19 Virginia ACC
19 < 17 Louisville
20 < NR Marshall

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.