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December 25, 1972 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 UCLA Pac-8
2 < 2 Maryland ACC
3 < 3 Marquette
4 < 4 NC State ACC
5 < 5 Minnesota Big Ten
6 < 6 Long Beach State
7 < 10 Missouri Big 8
8 < 11 Penn Ivy
9 < 8 Louisiana
10 < 12 Vanderbilt SEC
11 < 13 North Carolina ACC
12 < 7 Florida State Independent
13 < 14 Houston Southwest
14 < 15 BYU
15 < 9 Indiana Big Ten
16 < 17 Kansas State Big 8
17 < 18 Providence
18 < NR Alabama SEC
19 < 19 Oklahoma Big 8
20 < NR San Francisco

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.