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January 8, 2018 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	3	Villanova (52)	Big East	14-1	1611	*1
2	<	6	West Virginia (12)	Big 12	14-1	1559	*2
3	<	8	Virginia (1)	ACC	14-1	1438	3
4	<	1	Michigan State	Big Ten	15-2	1390	4
5	<	13	Purdue	Big Ten	15-2	1225	7
5	<	9	Wichita State	American	13-2	1225	5
7	<	2	Duke	ACC	13-2	1222	6
8	<	18	Texas Tech	Big 12	14-1	1174	8
9	<	7	Oklahoma	Big 12	12-2	1152	9
10	<	5	Xavier	Big East	15-2	1050	10
11	<	4	Arizona State	Pac-12	13-2	1036	11
12	<	10	Kansas	Big 12	12-3	888	12
13	<	21	Seton Hall	Big East	14-2	759	15
14	<	19	Cincinnati	American	14-2	739	13
15	<	19	Gonzaga	West Coast	14-3	676	14
16	<	16	TCU	Big 12	13-2	621	16
17	<	14	Arizona	Pac-12	12-4	537	21
18	<	15	Miami (FL)	ACC	13-2	502	19
19	<	25	Clemson	ACC	14-1	465	17
20	<	12	North Carolina	ACC	12-4	423	18
21	<	17	Kentucky	SEC	12-3	314	20
22	<	NR	Auburn	SEC	14-1	243	24
23	<	24	Florida State	ACC	12-3	202	RV
24	<	23	Tennessee	SEC	10-4	198	23
25	<	NR	Creighton	Big East	13-3	160	22
RV	<	NR	Notre Dame	ACC	13-3	121	25
RV	<	NR	Florida	SEC	11-4	85	RV
RV	<	11	Texas A&M	SEC	11-4	62	RV
RV	<	NR	Ohio State	Big Ten	13-4	29	RV
RV	<	NR	Rhode Island	Atlantic 10	11-3	7	RV
RV	<	NR	Michigan	Big Ten	14-3	5	RV
RV	<	NR	Baylor	Big 12	11-4	2	RV
RV	<	NR	Nevada	Mountain West	15-3	2	RV
RV	<	22	Arkansas	SEC	11-4	1	RV
RV	<	NR	Georgia	SEC	11-3	1	NR
RV	<	NR	New Mexico State	WAC	13-3	1	RV
NR	<	NR	Boise State	Mountain West	13-3	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Mississippi State	SEC	13-2	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Saint Mary's	West Coast	15-2	0	RV
NR	<	NR	UCLA	Pac-12	12-4	0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
ACC	6	15.0	4252
Big 12	5	9.4	5394
Big East	4	12.3	3580
SEC	3	22.3	755
Big Ten	2	4.5	2615
American	2	9.5	1964
Pac-12	2	14.0	1573
West Coast	1	15.0	676

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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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