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February 17, 1997 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference
1	<	1	Kansas	Big 12
2	<	3	Minnesota	Big Ten
3	<	4	Kentucky	SEC
4	<	2	Wake Forest	ACC
5	<	5	Utah
6	<	6	Duke	ACC
7	<	9	Iowa State	Big 12
8	<	7	Clemson	ACC
9	<	12	South Carolina	SEC
10	<	13	New Mexico
11	<	8	Cincinnati
12	<	16	North Carolina	ACC
13	<	11	Arizona	Pac-10
14	<	10	Maryland	ACC
15	<	17	Louisville
16	<	19	Xavier
17	<	24	UCLA	Pac-10
18	<	14	Michigan	Big Ten
19	<	18	Villanova
20	<	22	Stanford	Pac-10
21	<	15	Colorado	Big 12
22	<	25	Charleston
23	<	20	Illinois	Big Ten
24	<	NR	Indiana	Big Ten
25	<	NR	California	Pac-10

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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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