Rank	School	Record	Pts	LW
1	North Carolina	12-2-0	264	6
2	Stanford (4)	11-1-1	263	4
3	Southern Methodist (5)	12-2-0	262	3
4	San Jose State (2)	12-0-1	257	7
5	Indiana (1)	11-3-0	247	8
6	Connecticut	9-2-2	230	1
7	South Carolina	8-1-3	226	5
8	Virginia	9-3-1	224	11
9	UCLA	9-2-0	176	2
10	St. John's	9-3-2	167	9
11	Saint Louis	8-2-1	155	10
12	James Madison	11-1-1	150	16
13	Washington	9-3-0	149	nr
14	Creighton	11-2-0	135	14
15	Penn State	10-3-1	107	17
16 (tie)	Pittsburgh	11-2-0	89	13
16 (tie)	Portland	8-2-2	89	12
18	Clemson	8-3-1	79	15
19	San Diego	10-1-2	75	18
20	Alabama-Birmingham	8-3-1	63	21
21	Furman	11-2-1	62	20
22	Wake Forest	9-3-1	55	22
23	Rhode Island	10-3-1	50	24
24	Ohio State	7-2-4	49	nr
25	Duke	8-4-0	48	25

Key: Pts - Total points. LW - Last week's ranking. t - tie.

Others receiving votes: Bradley 26, Southwest Missouri State 23, Syracuse 13, Brown 8, Boston College 6, Georgetown 5, California State-Fullerton 3, Fairfield 3, Seton Hall 3, Loyola (Baltimore) 2, Marquette 2.

Voting panel: Mark Berson, South Carolina; Sasho Cirovski, Maryland; George Gelnovatch, Virginia; Schellas Hyndman, Southern Methodist; Tom Martin, James Madison; Bob Reasso, Rutgers; Ray Reid, Connecticut; John Rennie, Duke; Gary St. Clair, San Jose State; Todd Saldana, UCLA; Brett Simon, Creighton; Keith Tabatznik, Georgetown; Bob Warming, Saint Louis; Dean Wurzberger, Washington; Jerry Yeagley, Indiana.

Voting method: On each ballot, 25 points awarded for first place, 24 for second place, 23 for third, etc., to 1 point for 25th place.

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