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1996 Final AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference
1	<	2	Massachusetts
2	<	1	Kentucky	SEC
3	<	3	Connecticut	Big East
4	<	6	Georgetown	Big East
4	<	5	Kansas	Big 8
4	<	4	Purdue	Big Ten
7	<	8	Cincinnati
8	<	7	Texas Tech	Southwest
9	<	12	Wake Forest	ACC
10	<	9	Villanova
11	<	11	Arizona	Pac-10
12	<	10	Utah
13	<	18	Georgia Tech	ACC
14	<	17	UCLA	Pac-10
15	<	13	Syracuse	Big East
16	<	14	Memphis
17	<	23	Iowa State	Big 8
18	<	16	Penn State	Big Ten
19	<	25	Mississippi State	SEC
20	<	21	Marquette
21	<	19	Iowa	Big Ten
22	<	15	Virginia Tech
23	<	NR	New Mexico
24	<	22	Louisville
25	<	20	North Carolina	ACC

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.