College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

January 18, 1954 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference
1	< 1	Kentucky	SEC
2	< 2	Duquesne
3	< 3	Indiana	Big Ten
4	< 5	Western Kentucky
5	< 4	Oklahoma State	Missouri Valley
6	< NR	Notre Dame
7	< 8	Oklahoma City
8	< 6	Holy Cross
9	< 10	Minnesota	Big Ten
10	< 7	George Washington
11	< 11	Wichita State
12	< 16	LSU	SEC
13	< 9	Duke	ACC
14	< NR	Maryland	ACC
15	< NR	California
16	< 14	Seattle
17	< 11	Kansas	Big 7
18	< 13	Niagara
19	< NR	La Salle
20	< 19	Illinois	Big Ten

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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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