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January 15, 2018 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	1	Villanova (63)	Big East	16-1	1623	*1
2	<	3	Virginia (1)	ACC	16-1	1527	2
3	<	5	Purdue (1)	Big Ten	17-2	1411	*3
4	<	9	Oklahoma	Big 12	14-2	1371	6
5	<	7	Duke	ACC	15-2	1319	5
6	<	2	West Virginia	Big 12	15-2	1304	7
7	<	5	Wichita State	American	15-2	1283	4
8	<	8	Texas Tech	Big 12	15-2	1276	8
9	<	4	Michigan State	Big Ten	16-3	1062	9
10	<	12	Kansas	Big 12	14-3	1032	10
11	<	10	Xavier	Big East	16-3	928	12
12	<	14	Cincinnati	American	15-2	858	11
13	<	15	Gonzaga	West Coast	16-3	829	13
14	<	17	Arizona	Pac-12	14-4	723	17
15	<	20	North Carolina	ACC	14-4	666	14
16	<	11	Arizona State	Pac-12	14-3	639	14
17	<	22	Auburn	SEC	16-1	523	20
18	<	21	Kentucky	SEC	14-3	487	16
19	<	13	Seton Hall	Big East	15-3	455	19
20	<	19	Clemson	ACC	15-2	444	18
21	<	24	Tennessee	SEC	12-4	358	21
22	<	NR	Ohio State	Big Ten	15-4	276	22
23	<	NR	Michigan	Big Ten	15-4	233	24
24	<	16	TCU	Big 12	13-4	196	25
25	<	18	Miami (FL)	ACC	13-3	143	23
RV	<	25	Creighton	Big East	14-4	56	RV
RV	<	NR	Rhode Island	Atlantic 10	13-3	39	RV
RV	<	23	Florida State	ACC	13-4	25	RV
RV	<	NR	Nevada	Mountain West	16-3	23	RV
RV	<	NR	Saint Mary's	West Coast	17-2	19	RV
RV	<	NR	New Mexico State	WAC	15-3	4	RV
RV	<	NR	Louisville	ACC	13-4	2	NR
RV	<	NR	Florida	SEC	12-5	1	RV
NR	<	NR	Baylor	Big 12	11-6	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Boise State	Mountain West	15-3	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Louisiana	Sun Belt	15-3	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Middle Tennessee	Conference USA	13-4	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Notre Dame	ACC	13-5	0	RV
NR	<	NR	Oklahoma State	Big 12	12-5	0	RV
NR	<	NR	UCLA	Pac-12	13-5	0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big 12	5	10.4	5179
ACC	5	13.4	4099
Big Ten	4	14.3	2982
Big East	3	10.3	3006
SEC	3	18.7	1368
American	2	9.5	2141
Pac-12	2	15.0	1362
West Coast	1	13.0	829

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