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1976 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points
1	<	1	Indiana (47)	Big Ten	28-0	1008
2	<	2	Marquette (2)		26-1	888
3	<	4	UNLV (1)		29-1	732
4	<	3	Rutgers (2)		29-0	720
5	<	6	UCLA	Pac-8	24-4	631
6	<	8	Alabama	SEC	22-4	540
7	<	7	Notre Dame		23-5	451
8	<	5	North Carolina	ACC	25-4	294
9	<	14	Michigan	Big Ten	22-6	287
10	<	16	Western Michigan		25-2	190
11	<	12	Maryland	ACC	22-6	131
12	<	15	Cincinnati		24-6	126
13	<	9	Tennessee	SEC	21-6	106
14	<	10	Missouri	Big 8	25-4	97
15	<	18	Arizona	Pac-8	23-8	79
16	<	19	Texas Tech	Southwest	25-5	75
17	<	NR	DePaul		20-8	37
18	<	13	Virginia	ACC	18-12	27
19	<	20	Centenary		23-5	25
20	<	NR	Pepperdine		22-5	20

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.