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December 13, 2021 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	2	Baylor (61)	Big 12	9-0	1525	*1
2	<	3	Duke	ACC	7-1	1429	*2
3	<	1	Purdue	Big Ten	9-1	1319	4
4	<	4	UCLA	Pac-12	9-1	1312	3
5	<	5	Gonzaga	West Coast	8-2	1291	4
6	<	9	Alabama	SEC	8-1	1202	*8
7	<	8	Kansas	Big 12	8-1	1181	7
8	<	11	Arizona	Pac-12	9-0	1172	6
9	<	6	Villanova	Big East	7-3	924	10
10	<	16	USC	Pac-12	10-0	810	9
11	<	17	Iowa State	Big 12	10-0	798	11
12	<	19	Michigan State	Big Ten	9-2	707	12
13	<	18	Auburn	SEC	8-1	693	14
14	<	14	Houston	American	8-2	683	13
15	<	21	Ohio State	Big Ten	8-2	656	15
16	<	23	Seton Hall	Big East	9-1	635	16
17	<	7	Texas	Big 12	6-2	583	17
18	<	13	Tennessee	SEC	7-2	390	18
19	<	25	LSU	SEC	9-0	376	20
20	<	15	Connecticut	Big East	9-2	360	22
21	<	10	Kentucky	SEC	7-2	345	21
22	<	NR	Xavier	Big East	9-1	301	25
23	<	NR	Colorado State	Mountain West	10-0	251	23
24	<	12	Arkansas	SEC	9-1	241	19
25	<	NR	Texas Tech	Big 12	7-1	164	24
RV	<	22	Wisconsin	Big Ten		156	RV
RV	<	NR	North Carolina	ACC		85	RV
RV	<	NR	Providence	Big East		57	RV
RV	<	NR	Oklahoma	Big 12		46	RV
RV	<	NR	San Francisco	West Coast		36	RV
RV	<	NR	Illinois	Big Ten		31	RV
RV	<	NR	West Virginia	Big 12		24	RV
RV	<	NR	Loyola Chicago	Missouri Valley		20	RV
RV	<	NR	Michigan	Big Ten		8	NR
RV	<	NR	St. Bonaventure	Atlantic 10		6	RV
RV	<	24	BYU	West Coast		4	RV
RV	<	NR	Minnesota	Big Ten		3	RV
RV	<	NR	Creighton	Big East		1	NR
NR	<	20	Florida	SEC		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Saint Mary's	West Coast		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Weber State	Big Sky		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
SEC	6	16.8	3247
Big 12	5	12.2	4251
Big East	4	16.8	2220
Pac-12	3	7.3	3294
Big Ten	3	10.0	2682
ACC	1	2.0	1429
West Coast	1	5.0	1291
American	1	14.0	683
Mountain West	1	23.0	251

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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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