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1973 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference
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

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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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