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2023 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	4	Alabama (48)	SEC	29-5	1508	*2
2	<	1	Houston (9)	American	31-3	1404	*1
3	<	5	Purdue (3)	Big Ten	29-5	1367	*3
4	<	3	Kansas	Big 12	27-7	1303	*5
5	<	7	Texas	Big 12	26-8	1276	7
6	<	6	Marquette	Big East	28-6	1244	4
7	<	2	UCLA (1)	Pac-12	29-5	1209	6
8	<	8	Arizona	Pac-12	28-6	1155	8
9	<	9	Gonzaga	West Coast	28-5	1046	9
10	<	11	Connecticut	Big East	25-8	854	12
11	<	10	Baylor	Big 12	22-10	779	11
12	<	21	Duke	ACC	26-8	763	16
13	<	15	Xavier	Big East	25-9	738	14
14	<	13	Virginia	ACC	25-7	711	10
15	<	12	Kansas State	Big 12	23-9	709	13
16	<	14	Miami (FL)	ACC	25-7	581	15
17	<	18	Texas A&M	SEC	25-9	562	17
18	<	20	San Diego State	Mountain West	27-6	550	18
19	<	16	Saint Mary's	West Coast	26-7	426	19
20	<	17	Tennessee	SEC	23-10	381	21
21	<	19	Indiana	Big Ten	22-11	332	19
22	<	22	TCU	Big 12	21-12	254	23
23	<	25	Missouri	SEC	24-9	171	24
24	<	NR	Memphis	American	26-8	110	RV
25	<	NR	Florida Atlantic	Conference USA	31-3	99	25
RV	<	24	Creighton	Big East		94	NR
RV	<	NR	Oral Roberts	Summit		58	RV
RV	<	23	Kentucky	SEC		39	RV
RV	<	NR	Iowa State	Big 12		32	RV
RV	<	NR	VCU	Atlantic 10		26	RV
RV	<	NR	Utah State	Mountain West		15	RV
RV	<	NR	Penn State	Big Ten		11	RV
RV	<	NR	Charleston	Colonial		10	RV
RV	<	NR	Drake	Missouri Valley		2	NR
RV	<	NR	Kent State	MAC		2	RV
RV	<	NR	Northwestern	Big Ten		2	RV
RV	<	NR	West Virginia	Big 12		2	NR
NR	<	NR	Maryland	Big Ten		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Michigan State	Big Ten		0	RV
NR	<	NR	NC State	ACC		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Pittsburgh	ACC		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Providence	Big East		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big 12	5	11.4	4321
SEC	4	15.3	2622
Big East	3	9.7	2836
ACC	3	14.0	2055
Pac-12	2	7.5	2364
Big Ten	2	12.0	1699
American	2	13.0	1514
West Coast	2	14.0	1472
Mountain West	1	18.0	550
Conference USA	1	25.0	99

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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