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March 5, 1979 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 Indiana State
2 < 3 UCLA Pac-10
3 < 7 North Carolina ACC
4 < 4 Michigan State Big Ten
5 < 2 Notre Dame
6 < 5 Duke ACC
7 < 9 Arkansas Southwest
8 < 15 DePaul
9 < 8 LSU SEC
10 < 6 Syracuse
11 < 16 Georgetown
12 < 10 Marquette
13 < 12 Temple
14 < 11 Iowa Big Ten
15 < 14 Texas Southwest
16 < 19 Purdue Big Ten
17 < 18 Detroit Mercy
18 < 13 Louisville
19 < 20 San Francisco
20 < NR Tennessee SEC

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.