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1980 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference
1	<	1	DePaul
2	<	4	Louisville
3	<	5	LSU	SEC
4	<	2	Kentucky	SEC
5	<	6	Oregon State	Pac-10
6	<	3	Syracuse	Big East
7	<	13	Indiana	Big Ten
8	<	7	Maryland	ACC
9	<	14	Notre Dame
10	<	9	Ohio State	Big Ten
11	<	20	Georgetown	Big East
12	<	12	BYU
13	<	8	St. John's	Big East
14	<	NR	Duke	ACC
15	<	10	North Carolina	ACC
16	<	11	Missouri	Big 8
17	<	16	Weber State
18	<	15	Arizona State	Pac-10
19	<	NR	Iona
20	<	18	Purdue	Big Ten

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.