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2025 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	3	Florida (61)	SEC	36-4	1525	1
2	<	2	Houston	Big 12	35-5	1464	2
3	<	1	Duke	ACC	35-4	1402	3
4	<	4	Auburn	SEC	32-6	1343	4
5	<	6	Tennessee	SEC	30-8	1220	5
6	<	7	Alabama	SEC	28-9	1198	6
7	<	8	Michigan State	Big Ten	30-7	1188	7
8	<	9	Texas Tech	Big 12	28-9	1140	8
9	<	11	Maryland	Big Ten	27-9	923	9
10	<	14	Michigan	Big Ten	27-10	873	11
11	<	5	St. John's	Big East	31-5	862	10
12	<	18	Kentucky	SEC	24-12	744	14
13	<	17	BYU	Big 12	26-10	712	15
14	<	22	Purdue	Big Ten	24-12	704	12
15	<	21	Arizona	Big 12	24-13	639	13
16	<	13	Wisconsin	Big Ten	27-10	542	16
17	<	15	Iowa State	Big 12	25-10	512	17
18	<	NR	Mississippi	SEC	24-12	424	18
19	<	19	Texas A&M	SEC	23-11	358	19
20	<	NR	Arkansas	SEC	22-14	321	25
21	<	10	Louisville	ACC	27-8	309	21
22	<	12	Clemson	ACC	27-7	265	23
23	<	24	Gonzaga	West Coast	26-9	250	20
24	<	20	Saint Mary's	West Coast	29-6	186	22
25	<	16	Memphis	American	29-6	137	RV
RV	<	NR	Drake	Missouri Valley		122	RV
RV	<	25	Oregon	Big Ten		105	RV
RV	<	NR	Illinois	Big Ten		80	RV
RV	<	NR	Connecticut	Big East		76	RV
RV	<	NR	Creighton	Big East		60	24
RV	<	NR	Colorado State	Mountain West		49	RV
RV	<	NR	UCLA	Big Ten		36	RV
RV	<	NR	McNeese	Southland		17	RV
RV	<	23	Missouri	SEC		16	RV
RV	<	NR	New Mexico	Mountain West		10	RV
RV	<	NR	UC San Diego	Big West		6	RV
RV	<	NR	Kansas	Big 12		5	RV
RV	<	NR	Marquette	Big East		2	RV
NR	<	NR	Baylor	Big 12		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
SEC	8	10.6	7133
Big 12	5	11.0	4467
Big Ten	5	11.2	4230
ACC	3	15.3	1976
West Coast	2	23.5	436
Big East	1	11.0	862
American	1	25.0	137

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.