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1973 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 UCLA Pac-8
2 < 2 NC State ACC
3 < 4 Long Beach State
4 < 5 Providence
5 < 6 Marquette
6 < 9 Indiana Big Ten
7 < 14 Louisiana
8 < 10 Maryland ACC
9 < 11 Kansas State Big 8
10 < 3 Minnesota Big Ten
11 < 8 North Carolina ACC
12 < 15 Memphis
13 < 7 Houston Southwest
14 < 13 Syracuse
15 < 12 Missouri Big 8
16 < NR Arizona State Pac-8
17 < 19 Kentucky SEC
18 < NR Penn Ivy
19 < NR Austin Peay
20 < 19 San Francisco

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.