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March 16, 2026 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	1	Duke (50)	ACC	32-2	1418	*1
2	<	2	Arizona (7)	Big 12	32-2	1372	*2
3	<	3	Michigan	Big Ten	31-3	1310	3
4	<	4	Florida	SEC	26-7	1221	4
5	<	5	Houston	Big 12	28-6	1214	5
6	<	7	Iowa State	Big 12	27-7	1096	6
7	<	6	Connecticut	Big East	29-5	1032	7
8	<	18	Purdue	Big Ten	27-8	912	13
9	<	10	Virginia	ACC	29-5	903	8
10	<	13	St. John's	Big East	28-6	860	9
11	<	8	Michigan State	Big Ten	25-7	833	11
12	<	12	Gonzaga	West Coast	30-3	829	10
13	<	9	Illinois	Big Ten	24-8	801	12
14	<	17	Arkansas	SEC	26-8	750	15
15	<	11	Nebraska	Big Ten	26-6	689	14
16	<	22	Vanderbilt	SEC	26-8	538	16
17	<	14	Kansas	Big 12	23-10	503	17
18	<	15	Alabama	SEC	23-9	438	18
19	<	23	Wisconsin	Big Ten	24-10	392	20
20	<	16	Texas Tech	Big 12	22-10	376	19
21	<	19	North Carolina	ACC	24-8	293	21
22	<	21	Saint Mary's	West Coast	27-5	113	22
23	<	24	Louisville	ACC	23-10	112	24
23	<	25	Tennessee	SEC	22-11	112	25
25	<	NR	Miami (FL)	ACC	25-8	110	23
RV	<	20	Miami (OH)	MAC		100	RV
RV	<	NR	BYU	Big 12		62	RV
RV	<	NR	UCLA	Big Ten		38	RV
RV	<	NR	Utah State	Mountain West		28	RV
RV	<	NR	TCU	Big 12		17	NR
RV	<	NR	High Point	Big South		14	NR
RV	<	NR	VCU	Atlantic 10		12	RV
RV	<	NR	Clemson	ACC		9	NR
RV	<	NR	Ohio State	Big Ten		5	RV
RV	<	NR	Kentucky	SEC		4	NR
RV	<	NR	Akron	MAC		3	RV
RV	<	NR	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10		3	RV
RV	<	NR	Santa Clara	West Coast		2	RV
RV	<	NR	McNeese	Southland		1	NR
NR	<	NR	South Florida	American		0	NR
NR	<	NR	Villanova	Big East		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big Ten	6	11.5	4937
Big 12	5	10.0	4561
SEC	5	15.0	3059
ACC	5	15.8	2836
Big East	2	8.5	1892
West Coast	2	17.0	942

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.