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Men's Basketball

1949 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference
1	< 1	Kentucky	SEC
2	< 2	Oklahoma State	Missouri Valley
3	< 3	Saint Louis
4	< 4	Illinois	Big Ten
5	< 6	Western Kentucky
6	< 5	Minnesota	Big Ten
7	< 10	Bradley
8	< 8	San Francisco
9	< 7	Tulane
10	< 9	Bowling Green
11	< 18	Yale	Ivy
12	< 13	Utah
13	< 15	NC State
14	< 17	Villanova
15	< NR	UCLA
16	< 14	Loyola Chicago
17	< 12	Wyoming
18	< 11	Butler
19	< 16	Hamline
20	< 19	Ohio State	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.
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