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December 24, 1951 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 2 Kentucky SEC
2 < 3 Illinois Big Ten
3 < 8 Washington
4 < 7 Kansas Big 7
5 < 6 Indiana Big Ten
6 < 11 New York
7 < 1 St. John's
8 < 5 Kansas State Big 7
9 < 20 Notre Dame
10 < 10 Seton Hall
11 < 16 Western Kentucky
12 < 4 Saint Louis
13 < NR Stanford
14 < 18 Villanova
15 < NR Utah
16 < NR UCLA
17 < 12 La Salle
18 < NR Murray State
19 < 9 NC State
20 < NR Syracuse

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.