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March 6, 1978 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 Kentucky SEC
2 < 2 UCLA Pac-8
3 < 3 Marquette
4 < 6 DePaul
5 < 8 New Mexico
6 < 9 Michigan State Big Ten
7 < 4 Arkansas Southwest
8 < 15 Duke ACC
9 < 5 Kansas Big 8
10 < 7 Notre Dame
11 < 10 North Carolina ACC
12 < 20 Louisville
13 < 11 Florida State Metro
14 < NR Houston Southwest
15 < 19 Utah
16 < 12 Texas Southwest
17 < 13 Illinois State
18 < 14 Syracuse
19 < 16 Detroit Mercy
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.