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1974 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference
1	<	1	NC State	ACC
2	<	2	UCLA	Pac-8
3	<	3	Marquette
4	<	4	Maryland	ACC
5	<	5	Notre Dame
6	<	7	Michigan	Big Ten
7	<	6	Kansas	Big 8
8	<	8	Providence
9	<	11	Indiana	Big Ten
10	<	9	Long Beach State
11	<	18	Purdue	Big Ten
12	<	10	North Carolina	ACC
13	<	11	Vanderbilt	SEC
14	<	13	Alabama	SEC
15	<	NR	Utah
16	<	15	Pittsburgh
17	<	14	USC	Pac-8
18	<	18	Oral Roberts
19	<	17	South Carolina
20	<	16	Dayton

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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.
All poll dates fall on Mondays with a few exceptions. See explanation here.