College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

March 1, 1954 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference
1	< 2	Kentucky	SEC
2	< 3	Indiana	Big Ten
3	< 4	Western Kentucky
4	< 1	Duquesne
5	< 6	Notre Dame
6	< 5	Oklahoma State	Missouri Valley
7	< 12	LSU	SEC
8	< 13	La Salle
9	< 8	George Washington
10	< 9	Seattle
11	< 10	Duke	ACC
12	< 14	Wichita State
13	< 7	Holy Cross
14	< 16	Dayton
15	< 17	Kansas	Big 7
16	< 20	Iowa	Big Ten
17	< 11	Maryland	ACC
18	< NR	NC State	ACC
19	< NR	Connecticut
20	< NR	Louisville

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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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