1978 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)		Conference		W-L		PTS
1	< 1		Kentucky		SEC
2	< 2		UCLA
3	< 4		DePaul (IL)
4	< 6		Michigan State
5	< 7		Arkansas
6	< 10		Notre Dame
7	< 8		Duke
8	< 3		Marquette
9	< 12		Louisville
10	< 9		Kansas
11	< 20		San Francisco
12	< 5		New Mexico
13	< NR		Indiana		Big Ten
14	< 15		Utah
15	< 13		Florida State
16	< 11		North Carolina
17	< 16		Texas
18	< 19		Detroit Mercy
19	< NR		Miami (OH)
20	< NR		Penn

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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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