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February 5, 1979 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points
1	<	1	Notre Dame (25)		15-2	1036
2	<	2	Indiana State (20)		20-0	1003
3	<	3	Duke (7)	ACC	16-3	984
4	<	5	UCLA	Pac-10	16-3	918
5	<	6	Louisville (2)		19-3	874
6	<	4	North Carolina	ACC	16-4	729
7	<	8	Syracuse		18-2	718
8	<	10	LSU	SEC	19-3	673
9	<	12	Marquette		16-3	619
10	<	14	Michigan State	Big Ten	14-5	498
11	<	16	Texas A&M	Southwest	20-4	496
12	<	11	Texas	Southwest	16-5	376
13	<	7	Ohio State	Big Ten	13-6	375
14	<	19	Arkansas	Southwest	15-4	360
15	<	NR	Iowa	Big Ten	15-4	269
16	<	13	Alabama	SEC	13-5	150
17	<	20	Vanderbilt	SEC	15-4	140
18	<	9	Georgetown		16-4	129
19	<	18	Temple		17-3	124
20	<	14	Illinois	Big Ten	17-5	118

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.