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January 16, 2012 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	1	Syracuse (60)	Big East	19-0	1619	*1
2	<	2	Kentucky (4)	SEC	17-1	1558	2
3	<	4	Baylor (1)	Big 12	17-0	1503	3
4	<	8	Duke	ACC	15-2	1380	4
5	<	9	Missouri	Big 12	16-1	1335	5
6	<	5	Ohio State	Big Ten	16-3	1312	6
7	<	10	Kansas	Big 12	14-3	1218	7
8	<	3	North Carolina	ACC	15-3	1172	8
9	<	6	Michigan State	Big Ten	15-3	1119	9
10	<	11	Georgetown	Big East	14-3	884	12
11	<	7	Indiana	Big Ten	15-3	858	13
12	<	15	Murray State	Ohio Valley	18-0	825	10
13	<	17	Connecticut	Big East	14-3	807	11
14	<	12	UNLV	Mountain West	16-3	651	20
15	<	16	Virginia	ACC	14-2	649	17
16	<	22	San Diego State	Mountain West	15-2	621	16
17	<	19	Florida	SEC	14-4	596	14
18	<	20	Mississippi State	SEC	15-3	590	15
19	<	23	Creighton	Missouri Valley	16-2	471	18
20	<	13	Michigan	Big Ten	14-4	461	19
21	<	25	Marquette	Big East	14-4	278	22
22	<	NR	Illinois	Big Ten	15-3	257	25
23	<	14	Louisville	Big East	14-4	208	21
24	<	NR	Saint Mary's	West Coast	17-2	167	23
25	<	18	Kansas State	Big 12	12-4	102	RV
RV	<	NR	Vanderbilt	SEC	13-4	101	RV
RV	<	NR	Wisconsin	Big Ten	14-5	90	RV
RV	<	24	Seton Hall	Big East	15-3	79	RV
RV	<	21	Gonzaga	West Coast	14-3	64	RV
RV	<	NR	New Mexico	Mountain West	15-2	61	RV
RV	<	NR	Harvard	Ivy	15-2	22	24
RV	<	NR	Cincinnati	Big East	14-4	17	NR
RV	<	NR	Stanford	Pac-12	15-3	16	NR
RV	<	NR	West Virginia	Big East	13-5	16	RV
RV	<	NR	Alabama	SEC	13-4	10	RV
RV	<	NR	Wichita State	Missouri Valley	15-3	3	RV
RV	<	NR	Iona	Metro Atlantic	14-4	2	NR
RV	<	NR	Florida State	ACC	11-5	1	NR
RV	<	NR	Northwestern	Big Ten	12-5	1	NR
RV	<	NR	Wagner	Northeast	14-3	1	NR
NR	<	NR	BYU	West Coast	15-4	0	RV
NR	<	NR	California	Pac-12	15-4	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Middle Tennessee	Sun Belt	17-2	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Nevada	WAC	14-3	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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