1954 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)		Conference		W-L		PTS
1	< 1		Kentucky		SEC
2	< 12		La Salle (PA)
3	< 9		Holy Cross (MA)
4	< 2		Indiana		Big Ten
5	< 3		Duquesne (PA)
6	< 6		Notre Dame
7	< NR		Bradley (IL)
8	< 4		Western Kentucky
9	< NR		Penn State
10	< 5		Oklahoma State
11	< NR		USC
12	< 7		George Washington (DC)
13	< 16		Iowa		Big Ten
14	< 8		LSU		SEC
15	< 18		Duke
16	< NR		Niagara (NY)
17	< 11		Seattle
18	< 13		Kansas
19	< NR		Illinois		Big Ten
20	< 14		Maryland

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NOTES
- 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.
- Poll dates from 1948-49 to 2006-07 fall on Tuesdays with a few exceptions. Dates from 2007-08 to present fall on Mondays.
- Some of this weekly poll data was contributed to the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Game

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