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1970 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 2 Kentucky SEC
2 < 1 UCLA Pac-8
3 < 4 St. Bonaventure
4 < 6 Jacksonville
5 < 5 New Mexico State
6 < 3 South Carolina
7 < 8 Iowa Big Ten
8 < 9 Marquette
9 < 15 Notre Dame
10 < 19 NC State ACC
11 < 11 Florida State Independent
12 < 13 Houston
13 < 7 Penn Ivy
14 < 14 Drake
15 < 10 Davidson
16 < 18 Utah State
17 < NR Niagara
18 < 12 Western Kentucky
19 < NR Long Beach State
20 < NR USC Pac-8

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.