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January 3, 1972 AP Men's Basketball Poll

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

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.