College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

December 28, 1953 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference
1	< 2	Kentucky	SEC
2	< 3	Duquesne
3	< 1	Indiana	Big Ten
4	< 12	Oregon State
5	< 5	Oklahoma State	Missouri Valley
6	< 8	Minnesota	Big Ten
7	< 6	Western Kentucky
8	< 4	Illinois	Big Ten
9	< 9	NC State	ACC
10	< 7	Fordham
11	< 15	Oklahoma City
12	< 10	Holy Cross
13	< 16	La Salle
14	< 13	UCLA
15	< NR	Seattle
16	< 11	Rice	Southwest
17	< 20	Idaho
18	< 14	LSU	SEC
19	< NR	BYU
20	< 20	Vanderbilt	SEC
20	< NR	Wyoming

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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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