the ap basketball poll comes out each week.
the ap basketball poll comes out each week.
when does the ap basketball poll come out each week?
each week
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no significant preseason expectations attended the 1977–78 texas longhorns, a team that would produce one of the more successful seasons in longhorn basketball history. after a one-point loss in the opening game against southern california in los angeles, texas inaugurated the $37-million, 16,231-seat special events center with an 83–76 victory over the oklahoma sooners, the first of eight straight wins. texas lost 65–56 to fifth-ranked, defending national champion marquette before posting another nine straight victories, including a 75–69 upset of third-ranked and eventual final four participant arkansas, with its famed "triplets" (guards sidney moncrief, ron brewer, and marvin delph). the win over eddie sutton's razorbacks vaulted lemons' longhorns to a no. 15 ranking in the associated press poll, texas' first appearance in the poll since a one-week showing at no. 20 in 1949, the inaugural season of the ap basketball poll. texas would finish the regular season ranked no. 12 in the ap poll with records of 22–4 overall and 14–2 in conference play, sharing the southwest conference championship with the razorbacks. despite the impressive season, texas saw its hopes of playing in the 32-team ncaa tournament dashed in a two-point loss to houston in the swc tournament final. houston claimed the automatic bid to the tournament, arkansas received an at-large bid, and the longhorns were left to accept a bid to the 1978 national invitation tournament. texas would storm through the tournament to reach the nit championship game against the north carolina state wolfpack, defeating temple, nebraska, and rutgers by an average of over 17 points in the first three rounds. the longhorns posted an easy 101–93 victory over the wolfpack to win the nit championship behind 22, 26, and 33 points, respectively, from point guard johnny moore and 1978 nit co-mvps ron baxter and jim krivacs. after the end of the 1977–78 season, abe lemons was named national coach of the year by the national association of basketball coaches. lemons remains the only men's basketball coach in ut history to earn national coach of the year honors.
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