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December 6, 2021 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	2	Purdue (61)	Big Ten	8-0	1525	*1
2	<	4	Baylor	Big 12	8-0	1421	*2
3	<	1	Duke	ACC	7-1	1390	3
4	<	5	UCLA	Pac-12	8-1	1293	4
5	<	3	Gonzaga	West Coast	7-2	1240	5
6	<	6	Villanova	Big East	6-2	1175	6
7	<	7	Texas	Big 12	6-1	1101	11
8	<	8	Kansas	Big 12	6-1	1068	7
9	<	16	Alabama	SEC	7-1	1029	9
10	<	9	Kentucky	SEC	6-1	972	12
11	<	11	Arizona	Pac-12	7-0	919	8
12	<	10	Arkansas	SEC	8-0	905	10
13	<	13	Tennessee	SEC	6-1	762	14
14	<	15	Houston	American	7-1	686	13
15	<	17	Connecticut	Big East	8-1	527	18
16	<	20	USC	Pac-12	8-0	510	15
17	<	19	Iowa State	Big 12	8-0	499	19
18	<	21	Auburn	SEC	7-1	419	21
19	<	22	Michigan State	Big Ten	7-2	405	20
20	<	14	Florida	SEC	6-1	386	16
21	<	NR	Ohio State	Big Ten	6-2	370	22
22	<	23	Wisconsin	Big Ten	7-1	338	17
23	<	25	Seton Hall	Big East	7-1	177	25
24	<	12	BYU	West Coast	7-1	157	23
25	<	NR	LSU	SEC	8-0	135	24
RV	<	NR	Colorado State	Mountain West		90	RV
RV	<	NR	Xavier	Big East		78	RV
RV	<	NR	Illinois	Big Ten		71	RV
RV	<	NR	North Carolina	ACC		55	RV
RV	<	NR	St. Bonaventure	Atlantic 10		37	RV
RV	<	NR	Oklahoma	Big 12		29	RV
RV	<	18	Memphis	American		14	RV
RV	<	NR	Iowa	Big Ten		12	RV
RV	<	24	Michigan	Big Ten		11	RV
RV	<	NR	San Francisco	West Coast		10	RV
RV	<	NR	Loyola Chicago	Missouri Valley		4	RV
RV	<	NR	Indiana	Big Ten		3	RV
RV	<	NR	Texas Tech	Big 12		2	RV
NR	<	NR	Minnesota	Big Ten		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Providence	Big East		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Utah Valley	WAC		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Wake Forest	ACC		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Weber State	Big Sky		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Wyoming	Mountain West		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
SEC	7	15.3	4608
Big 12	4	8.5	4089
Big Ten	4	15.8	2638
Pac-12	3	10.3	2722
Big East	3	14.7	1879
West Coast	2	14.5	1397
ACC	1	3.0	1390
American	1	14.0	686

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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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