The Top Twenty Five
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Mar. 1, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:
| Record | Pts | Prv | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Kansas (64) | 26-3 | 1600 | 1 |
| 2. Gonzaga | 29-2 | 1514 | 3 |
| 3. Dayton | 27-2 | 1453 | 4 |
| 4. Baylor | 25-3 | 1395 | 2 |
| 5. San Diego St. | 28-1 | 1375 | 5 |
| 6. Kentucky | 24-5 | 1253 | 8 |
| 7. Florida St. | 24-5 | 1164 | 6 |
| 8. Seton Hall | 21-7 | 1145 | 13 |
| 9. Maryland | 23-6 | 1041 | 9 |
| 10. Louisville | 24-6 | 948 | 11 |
| 11. Creighton | 22-7 | 843 | 10 |
| 12. Duke | 23-6 | 809 | 7 |
| 13. Oregon | 22-7 | 802 | 14 |
| 14. Villanova | 22-7 | 779 | 12 |
| 15. BYU | 24-7 | 756 | 17 |
| 16. Michigan St. | 20-9 | 726 | 24 |
| 17. Auburn | 24-5 | 575 | 15 |
| 18. Iowa | 20-9 | 492 | 18 |
| 19. Ohio St. | 20-9 | 489 | 23 |
| 20. Penn St. | 21-8 | 367 | 16 |
| 21. Houston | 22-7 | 265 | 25 |
| 22. Virginia | 21-7 | 219 | – |
| 23. Illinois | 20-9 | 208 | – |
| 24. Wisconsin | 19-10 | 179 | – |
| 25. Michigan | 18-11 | 94 | 19 |
Others receiving votes: Butler 68, UCLA 54, Stephen F Austin 47, ETSU 31, West Virginia 22, Providence 17, Colorado 13, Marquette 12, Arizona 9, Texas Tech 9, N Iowa 4, Oklahoma 4, Stanford 4, Arizona St 4, Wichita St. 2, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 2, LSU 2, New Mexico St. 2, Southern Cal 1, Belmont 1, Vermont 1.
