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1998 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference
1	<	4	North Carolina	ACC
2	<	3	Kansas	Big 12
3	<	1	Duke	ACC
4	<	2	Arizona	Pac-10
5	<	7	Kentucky	SEC
6	<	6	Connecticut	Big East
7	<	5	Utah
8	<	8	Princeton	Ivy
9	<	14	Cincinnati
10	<	11	Stanford	Pac-10
11	<	9	Purdue	Big Ten
12	<	17	Michigan	Big Ten
13	<	10	Mississippi	SEC
14	<	15	South Carolina	SEC
15	<	13	TCU	Big 12
16	<	12	Michigan State	Big Ten
17	<	16	Arkansas	SEC
18	<	20	New Mexico
19	<	19	UCLA	Pac-10
20	<	21	Maryland	ACC
21	<	22	Syracuse	Big East
22	<	18	Illinois	Big Ten
23	<	NR	Xavier
24	<	24	Temple
25	<	NR	Murray State

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.