College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

1977 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference
1	< 1	Michigan	Big Ten
2	< 2	UCLA	Pac-8
3	< 6	Kentucky	SEC
4	< 5	UNLV
5	< 4	North Carolina	ACC
6	< 10	Syracuse
7	< 16	Marquette
8	< 3	San Francisco
9	< NR	Wake Forest	ACC
10	< 15	Notre Dame
11	< 12	Alabama	SEC
12	< 17	Detroit Mercy
13	< 9	Minnesota	Big Ten
14	< 19	Utah
15	< 7	Tennessee	SEC
16	< NR	Kansas State	Big 8
17	< 18	Charlotte
18	< 8	Arkansas	Southwest
19	< 14	Louisville
20	< NR	VMI

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.