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March 3, 1997 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference
1	<	1	Kansas	Big 12
2	<	2	Minnesota	Big Ten
3	<	4	Utah
4	<	6	South Carolina	SEC
5	<	8	North Carolina	ACC
6	<	3	Kentucky	SEC
7	<	7	Duke	ACC
8	<	5	Wake Forest	ACC
9	<	10	UCLA	Pac-10
10	<	9	Cincinnati
11	<	14	Xavier
12	<	15	Arizona	Pac-10
13	<	12	Clemson	ACC
14	<	11	New Mexico
15	<	21	Illinois	Big Ten
16	<	13	Iowa State	Big 12
17	<	20	Charleston
18	<	19	Colorado	Big 12
19	<	23	Saint Joseph's
20	<	17	Louisville
21	<	18	Villanova
22	<	16	Maryland	ACC
23	<	25	Stanford	Pac-10
24	<	NR	Georgia	SEC
25	<	22	Indiana	Big Ten

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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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