College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

December 6, 1954 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference
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

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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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