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Men's Basketball

November 12, 2018 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points
1	< 4	Duke (48)	ACC	2-0	1606
2	< 1	Kansas (14)	Big 12	1-0	1571
3	< 3	Gonzaga	West Coast	2-0	1478
4	< 5	Virginia (2)	ACC	2-0	1326
5	< 6	Tennessee (1)	SEC	2-0	1306
6	< 7	Nevada	Mountain West	2-0	1277
7	< 8	North Carolina	ACC	2-0	1260
8	< 9	Villanova	Big East	2-0	1139
9	< 11	Auburn	SEC	2-0	1132
10	< 2	Kentucky	SEC	1-1	1054
11	< 10	Michigan State	Big Ten	1-1	919
12	< 12	Kansas State	Big 12	1-0	892
13	< 14	Oregon	Pac-12	2-0	739
14	< 17	Florida State	ACC	2-0	731
15	< 16	Syracuse	ACC	2-0	673
16	< 15	Virginia Tech	ACC	1-0	664
17	< 18	Mississippi State	SEC	2-0	549
18	< 19	Michigan	Big Ten	2-0	486
19	< 22	Clemson	ACC	2-0	350
20	< 21	UCLA	Pac-12	2-0	340
21	< 20	TCU	Big 12	2-0	323
22	< 23	LSU	SEC	2-0	248
23	< 24	Purdue	Big Ten	2-0	218
24	< NR	Marquette	Big East	2-0	155
25	< NR	Buffalo	MAC	2-0	154
RV	< 13	West Virginia	Big 12	0-1	145
RV	< NR	Indiana	Big Ten	2-0	131
RV	< NR	Nebraska	Big Ten	2-0	41
RV	< NR	Wisconsin	Big Ten	1-0	32
RV	< 25	Washington	Pac-12	1-1	29
RV	< NR	Maryland	Big Ten	2-0	28
RV	< NR	Notre Dame	ACC	2-0	24
RV	< NR	Miami (FL)	ACC	1-0	16
RV	< NR	Ohio State	Big Ten	2-0	14
RV	< NR	Alabama	SEC	2-0	11
RV	< NR	Florida	SEC	1-1	9
RV	< NR	Iowa State	Big 12	2-0	9
RV	< NR	Louisville	ACC	1-0	8
RV	< NR	Texas	Big 12	2-0	6
RV	< NR	Texas Tech	Big 12	2-0	5
RV	< NR	Arizona State	Pac-12	2-0	4
RV	< NR	Butler	Big East	1-0	4
RV	< NR	Vanderbilt	SEC	2-0	4
RV	< NR	Loyola Chicago	Missouri Valley	1-1	3
RV	< NR	Arizona	Pac-12	2-0	2
RV	< NR	Marshall	Conference USA	2-0	2
RV	< NR	St. John's	Big East	2-0	2
RV	< NR	Xavier	Big East	2-0	2
RV	< NR	Davidson	Atlantic 10	2-0	1
RV	< NR	Furman	Southern	2-0	1
RV	< NR	Penn	Ivy	2-0	1
RV	< NR	Southern Illinois	Missouri Valley	0-1	1

CONFERENCE BREAKDOWN
Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
ACC	7	10.9	6610
SEC	5	12.6	4289
Big 12	3	11.7	2786
Big Ten	3	17.3	1623
Big East	2	16.0	1294
Pac-12	2	16.5	1079
West Coast	1	3.0	1478
Mountain West	1	6.0	1277
MAC	1	25.0	154

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