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February 12, 1996 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference
1	<	1	Massachusetts
2	<	2	Kentucky	SEC
3	<	4	Connecticut	Big East
4	<	6	Villanova
5	<	3	Kansas	Big 8
6	<	5	Cincinnati
7	<	7	Utah
8	<	9	Wake Forest	ACC
9	<	10	Penn State	Big Ten
10	<	11	Virginia Tech
11	<	14	Purdue	Big Ten
12	<	13	Texas Tech	Southwest
13	<	16	Arizona	Pac-10
14	<	8	Georgetown	Big East
15	<	15	Memphis
16	<	18	Syracuse	Big East
17	<	12	North Carolina	ACC
18	<	17	UCLA	Pac-10
19	<	19	Iowa	Big Ten
20	<	25	Stanford	Pac-10
21	<	22	Boston College	Big East
22	<	21	Iowa State	Big 8
23	<	24	Eastern Michigan
24	<	20	Louisville
25	<	NR	Mississippi State	SEC

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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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