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1979 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 1 Indiana State
2 < 2 UCLA Pac-10
3 < 4 Michigan State Big Ten
4 < 5 Notre Dame
5 < 7 Arkansas Southwest
6 < 8 DePaul
7 < 9 LSU SEC
8 < 10 Syracuse
9 < 3 North Carolina ACC
10 < 12 Marquette
11 < 6 Duke ACC
12 < 19 San Francisco
13 < 18 Louisville
14 < NR Penn Ivy
15 < 16 Purdue Big Ten
16 < NR Oklahoma Big 8
17 < NR St. John's
18 < NR Rutgers Atlantic 10
19 < NR Toledo
20 < 14 Iowa Big Ten

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.