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February 13, 2012 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	1	Kentucky (63)	SEC	25-1	1623	*1
2	<	2	Syracuse (2)	Big East	25-1	1559	2
3	<	4	Missouri	Big 12	23-2	1498	3
4	<	7	Kansas	Big 12	20-5	1356	5
5	<	10	Duke	ACC	21-4	1336	4
6	<	3	Ohio State	Big Ten	21-4	1284	6
7	<	11	Michigan State	Big Ten	20-5	1283	8
8	<	5	North Carolina	ACC	21-4	1227	7
9	<	6	Baylor	Big 12	21-4	1064	10
10	<	12	Georgetown	Big East	19-5	983	9
11	<	14	UNLV	Mountain West	22-4	976	11
12	<	18	Marquette	Big East	21-5	810	13
13	<	13	San Diego State	Mountain West	20-4	688	15
14	<	8	Florida	SEC	19-6	675	12
15	<	21	Wisconsin	Big Ten	19-6	635	17
16	<	9	Murray State	Ohio Valley	24-1	600	14
17	<	22	Michigan	Big Ten	19-7	562	19
18	<	23	Indiana	Big Ten	19-6	430	20
19	<	24	Louisville	Big East	20-5	421	18
20	<	15	Florida State	ACC	17-7	406	21
21	<	16	Saint Mary's	West Coast	23-3	377	16
22	<	19	Virginia	ACC	19-5	337	22
23	<	NR	Notre Dame	Big East	17-8	231	25
24	<	NR	Gonzaga	West Coast	20-4	221	24
24	<	NR	Wichita State	Missouri Valley	22-4	221	RV
RV	<	NR	Temple	Atlantic 10	19-5	122	RV
RV	<	20	Mississippi State	SEC	19-6	108	23
RV	<	17	Creighton	Missouri Valley	21-5	20	RV
RV	<	NR	BYU	West Coast	21-6	12	NR
RV	<	NR	Long Beach State	Big West	19-6	12	RV
RV	<	NR	New Mexico	Mountain West	20-4	12	RV
RV	<	NR	Iowa State	Big 12	18-7	10	RV
RV	<	NR	Southern Miss	Conference USA	21-4	7	RV
RV	<	25	Harvard	Ivy	21-3	6	RV
RV	<	NR	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10	20-5	5	RV
RV	<	NR	California	Pac-12	20-6	3	RV
RV	<	NR	Vanderbilt	SEC	17-8	2	NR
RV	<	NR	VCU	Colonial	22-5	2	RV
RV	<	NR	Memphis	Conference USA	18-7	1	NR
NR	<	NR	Drexel	Colonial	21-5	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Middle Tennessee	Sun Belt	23-4	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Nevada	WAC	21-4	0	RV
NR	<	NR	UT Arlington	Southland	19-5	0	RV

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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.
Preseason polls started in the 1961-62 season, and there were post-tournament polls in 1953, 1954, 1974, and 1975.
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