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January 3, 2022 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank			Team (FPV)	Conference	Record	Points	Coaches
1	<	1	Baylor (61)	Big 12	13-0	1525	*1
2	<	2	Duke	ACC	11-1	1447	2
3	<	3	Purdue	Big Ten	12-1	1376	3
4	<	4	Gonzaga	West Coast	11-2	1336	4
5	<	5	UCLA	Pac-12	8-1	1287	5
6	<	6	Kansas	Big 12	11-1	1237	6
7	<	7	USC	Pac-12	12-0	1015	8
8	<	9	Arizona	Pac-12	11-1	1013	7
9	<	11	Auburn	SEC	12-1	976	9
10	<	10	Michigan State	Big Ten	12-2	934	10
11	<	8	Iowa State	Big 12	12-1	896	11
12	<	12	Houston	American	12-2	849	14
13	<	13	Ohio State	Big Ten	9-2	819	12
14	<	17	Texas	Big 12	11-2	640	16
15	<	19	Alabama	SEC	10-3	589	20
16	<	18	Kentucky	SEC	11-2	560	13
16	<	21	Providence	Big East	13-1	560	17
18	<	14	Tennessee	SEC	9-3	519	18
19	<	22	Villanova	Big East	9-4	437	15
20	<	20	Colorado State	Mountain West	10-0	386	19
21	<	16	LSU	SEC	12-1	371	21
22	<	23	Xavier	Big East	11-2	270	24
23	<	24	Wisconsin	Big Ten	10-2	221	23
24	<	15	Seton Hall	Big East	9-3	174	22
25	<	25	Texas Tech	Big 12	10-2	142	25
RV	<	NR	Illinois	Big Ten		74	RV
RV	<	NR	Oklahoma	Big 12		71	RV
RV	<	NR	Loyola Chicago	Missouri Valley		40	RV
RV	<	NR	Connecticut	Big East		39	RV
RV	<	NR	West Virginia	Big 12		6	RV
RV	<	NR	Iowa	Big Ten		5	NR
RV	<	NR	Davidson	Atlantic 10		3	RV
RV	<	NR	Minnesota	Big Ten		3	RV
RV	<	NR	San Francisco	West Coast		3	RV
RV	<	NR	Creighton	Big East		2	NR
NR	<	NR	Arkansas	SEC		0	RV
NR	<	NR	BYU	West Coast		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Florida	SEC		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Florida State	ACC		0	RV
NR	<	NR	Saint Mary's	West Coast		0	RV

Conference	Teams	Avg Rank	Total Points
Big 12	5	11.4	4440
SEC	5	15.8	3015
Big Ten	4	12.3	3350
Big East	4	20.3	1441
Pac-12	3	6.7	3315
ACC	1	2.0	1447
West Coast	1	4.0	1336
American	1	12.0	849
Mountain West	1	20.0	386

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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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