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2021 Preseason AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points
1	<	2	Gonzaga (28)	West Coast	0-0	1541
2	<	5	Baylor (24)	Big 12	0-0	1540
3	<	10	Villanova (11)	Big East	0-0	1501
4	<	16	Virginia (1)	ACC	0-0	1364
5	<	25	Iowa	Big Ten	0-0	1273
6	<	1	Kansas	Big 12	0-0	1221
7	<	17	Wisconsin	Big Ten	0-0	1150
8	<	21	Illinois	Big Ten	0-0	1105
9	<	11	Duke	ACC	0-0	1073
10	<	8	Kentucky	SEC	0-0	1038
11	<	7	Creighton	Big East	0-0	922
12	<	NR	Tennessee	SEC	0-0	919
13	<	9	Michigan State	Big Ten	0-0	820
14	<	NR	Texas Tech	Big 12	0-0	790
15	<	24	West Virginia	Big 12	0-0	651
16	<	NR	North Carolina	ACC	0-0	465
17	<	22	Houston	American	0-0	438
18	<	NR	Arizona State	Pac-12	0-0	402
19	<	NR	Texas	Big 12	0-0	380
20	<	13	Oregon	Pac-12	0-0	375
21	<	4	Florida State	ACC	0-0	351
22	<	NR	UCLA	Pac-12	0-0	336
23	<	19	Ohio State	Big Ten	0-0	270
24	<	NR	Rutgers	Big Ten	0-0	190
25	<	NR	Michigan	Big Ten	0-0	160
RV	<	NR	LSU	SEC	0-0	146
RV	<	NR	Florida	SEC	0-0	69
RV	<	NR	Memphis	American	0-0	69
RV	<	NR	Alabama	SEC	0-0	50
RV	<	NR	Indiana	Big Ten	0-0	48
RV	<	14	Louisville	ACC	0-0	41
RV	<	NR	Richmond	Atlantic 10	0-0	40
RV	<	NR	Stanford	Pac-12	0-0	14
RV	<	NR	Providence	Big East	0-0	9
RV	<	20	Auburn	SEC	0-0	8
RV	<	NR	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10	0-0	8
RV	<	NR	Connecticut	American	0-0	6
RV	<	6	San Diego State	Mountain West	0-0	6
RV	<	18	BYU	West Coast	0-0	4
RV	<	NR	Loyola Chicago	Missouri Valley	0-0	3
RV	<	15	Seton Hall	Big East	0-0	2
RV	<	NR	Northern Iowa	Missouri Valley	0-0	1
RV	<	NR	UNC Greensboro	Southern	0-0	1
NR	<	23	Butler	Big East	0-0	0
NR	<	3	Dayton	Atlantic 10	0-0	0
NR	<	12	Maryland	Big Ten	0-0	0

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big Ten	7	15.0	4968
Big 12	5	11.2	4582
ACC	4	12.5	3253
Pac-12	3	20.0	1113
Big East	2	7.0	2423
SEC	2	11.0	1957
West Coast	1	1.0	1541
American	1	17.0	438

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.
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