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February 14, 1949 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points
1	<	1	Kentucky (64)	SEC	20-1	805
2	<	2	Saint Louis (13)		16-2	741
3	<	3	Oklahoma State (2)	Missouri Valley	16-3	578
4	<	4	Illinois (1)	Big Ten	16-2	571
5	<	8	Tulane		19-2	297
6	<	7	Minnesota (1)	Big Ten	16-2	271
7	<	6	Western Kentucky		20-3	264
8	<	9	San Francisco		19-4	165
9	<	5	Hamline		17-1	118
10	<	14	Bowling Green		16-6	116
11	<	16	Butler (2)		15-3	102
12	<	NR	Bradley (1)		22-4	100
13	<	11	Loyola Chicago		16-4	54
14	<	12	Utah		18-5	49
15	<	13	Villanova		15-3	43
16	<	NR	Oklahoma	Big 7	11-6	35
17	<	NR	DePaul		14-7	32
17	<	NR	NC State		17-8	32
17	<	19	Wyoming		20-6	32
20	<	20	Duquesne		15-3	30
20	<	10	Stanford		17-5	30
20	<	NR	Yale	Ivy	16-4	30
RV	<	NR	CCNY			29
RV	<	17	Washington State			21
RV	<	NR	Eastern Kentucky			15
RV	<	15	Holy Cross			14
RV	<	NR	La Salle			13
RV	<	NR	Texas	Southwest		13
RV	<	NR	Louisville			11
RV	<	NR	Michigan	Big Ten		11
RV	<	NR	Kansas State	Big 7		6
RV	<	NR	Tennessee	SEC		6
RV	<	NR	USC			6
RV	<	NR	Notre Dame			5
RV	<	18	Ohio State	Big Ten		5
RV	<	NR	Temple			5
RV	<	NR	Arkansas	Southwest		2
RV	<	NR	New York			2
RV	<	NR	West Virginia			2
RV	<	NR	Nebraska	Big 7		1

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.
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