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January 26, 2026 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	1	Arizona (60)	Big 12	20-0	1500	1
2	<	2	Connecticut	Big East	19-1	1402	3
3	<	3	Michigan	Big Ten	18-1	1379	2
4	<	5	Duke	ACC	18-1	1326	4
5	<	7	Nebraska	Big Ten	20-0	1283	5
6	<	8	Gonzaga	West Coast	21-1	1097	6
7	<	10	Michigan State	Big Ten	18-2	1072	8
8	<	9	Iowa State	Big 12	18-2	1070	9
9	<	11	Illinois	Big Ten	17-3	1060	10
10	<	6	Houston	Big 12	17-2	983	7
11	<	12	Texas Tech	Big 12	16-4	939	11
12	<	4	Purdue	Big Ten	17-3	864	12
13	<	13	BYU	Big 12	17-2	837	13
14	<	19	Kansas	Big 12	15-5	614	14
15	<	20	Arkansas	SEC	15-5	568	16
16	<	22	North Carolina	ACC	16-4	528	18
17	<	14	Virginia	ACC	16-3	509	17
18	<	15	Vanderbilt	SEC	17-3	497	15
19	<	16	Florida	SEC	14-6	389	21
20	<	23	Louisville	ACC	14-5	297	20
21	<	24	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10	19-1	286	22
22	<	18	Clemson	ACC	17-4	245	19
23	<	17	Alabama	SEC	13-6	202	23
24	<	25	Miami (OH)	MAC	20-0	140	25
25	<	NR	St. John's	Big East	15-5	133	24
RV	<	NR	Tennessee	SEC		88	RV
RV	<	NR	Kentucky	SEC		51	RV
RV	<	21	Georgia	SEC		49	RV
RV	<	NR	Iowa	Big Ten		30	NR
RV	<	NR	Texas A&M	SEC		27	RV
RV	<	NR	Auburn	SEC		15	NR
RV	<	NR	NC State	ACC		8	NR
RV	<	NR	SMU	ACC		4	RV
RV	<	NR	Saint Mary's	West Coast		3	RV
RV	<	NR	Utah State	Mountain West		2	RV
RV	<	NR	Villanova	Big East		2	RV
RV	<	NR	Wisconsin	Big Ten		1	NR
NR	<	NR	Liberty	Conference USA		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big 12	6	9.5	5943
Big Ten	5	7.2	5658
ACC	5	15.8	2905
SEC	4	18.8	1656
Big East	2	13.5	1535
West Coast	1	6.0	1097
Atlantic 10	1	21.0	286
MAC	1	24.0	140

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.
All poll dates fall on Mondays with a few exceptions.