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January 26, 1981 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 Oregon State Pac-10
1 < 2 Virginia ACC
3 < 3 DePaul
4 < 5 LSU SEC
5 < 7 Arizona State Pac-10
6 < 3 Wake Forest ACC
7 < 6 Kentucky SEC
8 < 13 Notre Dame
9 < 14 Utah
10 < 12 UCLA Pac-10
11 < 8 Tennessee SEC
12 < 17 North Carolina ACC
13 < 9 Iowa Big Ten
14 < 10 Maryland ACC
15 < 18 BYU
16 < 11 South Alabama
17 < 16 Michigan Big Ten
18 < NR Kansas Big 8
19 < NR Minnesota Big Ten
20 < 20 Connecticut Big East

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.