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January 22, 1979 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points
1	<	1	Notre Dame (49)		11-1	1150
2	<	2	North Carolina (7)	ACC	14-2	1099
3	<	5	Indiana State (2)		16-0	933
4	<	6	Michigan State	Big Ten	11-3	892
5	<	7	Louisville		15-3	796
6	<	3	UCLA	Pac-10	12-3	795
7	<	8	Duke	ACC	12-3	779
8	<	4	Illinois	Big Ten	16-2	743
9	<	9	LSU	SEC	13-2	709
10	<	16	Ohio State	Big Ten	11-4	557
11	<	10	Georgetown		14-2	542
12	<	12	Syracuse		14-2	508
13	<	13	Marquette		13-2	505
14	<	15	Texas A&M	Southwest	15-3	459
15	<	11	Arkansas	Southwest	11-3	282
16	<	17	Temple		13-1	201
17	<	NR	Texas	Southwest	11-4	136
18	<	18	Alabama	SEC	11-4	132
19	<	NR	Vanderbilt	SEC	12-2	116
20	<	14	NC State	ACC	11-6	110

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.