College Poll Archive

Men's Basketball

January 18, 1949 AP Men's Basketball Poll

Rank		Team (FPV)	Conference	Points
1	< N/A	Saint Louis (69)		904
2	< N/A	Kentucky (16)	SEC	842
3	< N/A	Western Kentucky (2)		545
4	< N/A	Minnesota (3)	Big Ten	480
5	< N/A	Oklahoma State (3)	Missouri Valley	289
6	< N/A	San Francisco		248
7	< N/A	Illinois	Big Ten	215
8	< N/A	Hamline		171
9	< N/A	Villanova		135
10	< N/A	Utah		122
11	< N/A	Tulane		117
12	< N/A	Loyola Chicago		101
13	< N/A	Cincinnati		100
14	< N/A	Holy Cross		80
15	< N/A	Bowling Green		70
16	< N/A	Bradley		69
17	< N/A	Stanford		56
18	< N/A	Butler		46
18	< N/A	Washington State		46
20	< N/A	New York		44
RV	< N/A	Baylor	Southwest	38
RV	< N/A	CCNY		36
RV	< N/A	DePaul		34
RV	< N/A	Duquesne		33
RV	< N/A	La Salle		32
RV	< N/A	NC State		29
RV	< N/A	Notre Dame		27
RV	< N/A	Oklahoma	Big 7	25
RV	< N/A	Texas	Southwest	25
RV	< N/A	Wyoming		21

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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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