AP preseason basketball polls to be released Oct. and Nov.

AP preseason basketball polls to be released Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 The preseason AP Top 25 polls for mens and womens college basketball, the longest-running polls of their kind, will be released the week of Oct. 31.

The next mens preseason poll will be revealed at 12 noon ET on Monday, Oct. 31, while the womens poll will come out the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 1. The preseason AP all-America mens team - a tradition dating to 1948 - will be announced Nov. 2, and the womens team on Nov. 3.

All will be released on AP lines to customers, as well as posted on APs college basketball site, collegebasketball.ap.org, and the AP News app, along with analysis and additional coverage.

The Associated Press has released a mens preseason poll every year since 1962 and a womens poll since 1977, which also was the first AP womens basketball poll. The first AP mens basketball poll was on Jan. 20, 1949, and since then one has been released every week of every regular season.

For many fans, the preseason AP Top 25 poll serves as the starting point for the upcoming season, said Barry Bedlan, APs sports products manager. Part of the thrill of following college basketball each season is to see how the AP poll changes from week to week, based on the teams play and the opinions of our panel of experts from across the country.

More than 60 sports writers and broadcasters of AP-affiliated media from around the country help determine the teams that appear in the polls. All voters have extensive backgrounds in covering college basketball. The team rankings are decided by a points system based on how each voter ranks college basketballs best teams. A team receives 25 points for each first place vote, 24 for second place and so on through to the 25th team, which receives one point. The rankings are set by listing the teams point totals from highest to lowest. The mathematical formula is the same as the one used for the AP Top 25 college football poll and the AP Pro 32 rankings for NFL teams.

AP customers can leverage the popularity of the AP polls to grow digital traffic and new revenue through APs locally branded College Basketball Digital News Experience.

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For media inquiries:

Paul Colford

Vice President and Director of Media Relations

The Associated Press

212-621-1895

pcolford@ap.org

For sponsorship or revenue opportunities:

Barry Bedlan

Deputy Director of Sports Products

The Associated Press

972-677-2270

bbedlan@ap.org

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