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1997 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

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

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.