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December 6, 1954 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank Team (FPV) Conference Record Points
1 < 2 La Salle
2 < 1 Kentucky SEC
3 < 5 Duquesne
4 < 13 Iowa Big Ten
5 < 3 Holy Cross
6 < 4 Indiana Big Ten
7 < NR Dayton
8 < 16 Niagara
9 < 6 Notre Dame
10 < NR NC State ACC
11 < 10 Oklahoma State Missouri Valley
12 < NR Saint Louis
13 < NR UCLA
14 < 19 Illinois Big Ten
15 < NR Wichita State
16 < NR Utah
17 < 15 Duke ACC
17 < NR Wake Forest ACC
19 < 9 Penn State
20 < 8 Western Kentucky

Notes

  • 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. See explanation here.