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2021 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	1	Gonzaga (60)	West Coast	26-0	1500	*1
2	<	3	Illinois	Big Ten	23-6	1415	2
3	<	2	Baylor	Big 12	22-2	1397	3
4	<	4	Michigan	Big Ten	20-4	1280	4
5	<	6	Alabama	SEC	24-6	1242	5
6	<	7	Houston	American	24-3	1145	6
7	<	9	Ohio State	Big Ten	21-9	1138	7
8	<	5	Iowa	Big Ten	21-8	1132	8
9	<	13	Texas	Big 12	19-7	993	9
10	<	8	Arkansas	SEC	22-6	895	10
11	<	12	Oklahoma State	Big 12	20-8	891	12
12	<	11	Kansas	Big 12	20-8	803	11
13	<	10	West Virginia	Big 12	18-9	745	13
14	<	15	Florida State	ACC	16-6	651	14
15	<	16	Virginia	ACC	18-6	584	15
16	<	19	San Diego State	Mountain West	23-4	521	18
17	<	18	Loyola Chicago	Missouri Valley	24-4	513	16
18	<	14	Villanova	Big East	16-6	490	17
19	<	17	Creighton	Big East	20-8	411	19
20	<	20	Purdue	Big Ten	18-9	382	20
21	<	20	Texas Tech	Big 12	17-10	271	21
22	<	23	Colorado	Pac-12	22-8	243	22
23	<	NR	BYU	West Coast	20-6	125	RV
23	<	24	USC	Pac-12	22-7	125	23
25	<	22	Virginia Tech	ACC	15-6	118	24
RV	<	NR	Georgia Tech	ACC		103	RV
RV	<	NR	Tennessee	SEC		72	RV
RV	<	NR	St. Bonaventure	Atlantic 10		71	RV
RV	<	NR	Connecticut	American		62	RV
RV	<	NR	LSU	SEC		54	RV
RV	<	25	Oklahoma	Big 12		40	RV
RV	<	NR	Oregon	Pac-12		40	25
RV	<	NR	Wisconsin	Big Ten		26	NR
RV	<	NR	Winthrop	Big South		10	RV
RV	<	NR	Clemson	ACC		5	RV
RV	<	NR	Cleveland State	Horizon		2	NR
RV	<	NR	Missouri	SEC		2	RV
RV	<	NR	UC Santa Barbara	Big West		2	RV
RV	<	NR	Georgetown	Big East		1	RV
NR	<	NR	Drake	Missouri Valley		0	RV
NR	<	NR	North Texas	Conference USA		0	RV
NR	<	NR	UCLA	Pac-12		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Wichita State	American		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big 12	6	11.5	5100
Big Ten	5	8.2	5347
ACC	3	18.0	1353
SEC	2	7.5	2137
West Coast	2	12.0	1625
Big East	2	18.5	901
Pac-12	2	22.5	368
American	1	6.0	1145
Mountain West	1	16.0	521
Missouri Valley	1	17.0	513

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.
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