By SuperWest Sports Staff

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As most who follow Division I men’s college basketball know, the AP Top 25 Poll doesn’t play a role in determining which teams go to the NCAA Tournament.

It simply measures through a series of media votes how the top teams are doing throughout the regular season in anticipation of Selection Sunday.

The AP began compiling a ranking of the Top 20 college men’s basketball teams during the 1948-1949 season but has only been the poll continuously since 1950-1951.

The poll expanded to 25 teams for the 1989-90 season.

Kentucky has the highest percentage of AP poll top 25 appearances, having been ranked in more than 75% of the AP polls since 1948.

UCLA leads all SuperWest programs with 737 appearances, followed by Arizona with 607, and Gonzaga with 345.

Here’s the complete list with breakdowns by National Rank, Total Appearances, Percentage of Polls Appeared in, Average Rank, and High Rank.

[You may also be interested in All-Time SuperWest AP Football Poll Appearances]

Nat Rank	Program	Appear	Pct	Avg Rank	High Rank
5	UCLA	737	57.6%	8.2	1
7	Arizona	607	47.4%	10.0	1
28	Gonzaga	345	27.0%	10.7	1
40	UNLV	257	20.1%	11.1	1
41	Utah	239	18.7%	12.8	2
48	USC	205	16.0%	14.3	2
50	Stanford	200	15.6%	11.7	1
56	Washington	162	12.7%	13.8	2
59	Oregon	157	12.3%	15.2	4
62	New Mexico	155	12.1%	14.5	3
63	BYU	154	12.0%	15.4	3
70	Oregon State	128	10.0%	12.1	1
76	Arizona State	113	8.8%	13.5	3
78	San Diego State	110	8.6%	15.6	4
82	California	97	7.6%	16.6	2
91.	Saint Mary's (CA)	74	5.8%	19.3	11
100	Nevada	63	4.9%	16.6	5
103	Utah State	58	4.5%	17.4	7
104	Colorado	57	4.5%	17.7	6
108	Washington State	43	3.4%	14.7	4
111	Wyoming	40	3.1%	14.7	5
118	Fresno State	32	2.5%	17.0	11
124	Colorado State	23	1.8%	19.8	13
128	Toledo	22	1.7%	15.2	9
141	Hawaii	16	1.3%	18.3	12
151	Air Force	13	1.0%	19.3	13
178	San Jose State	3	0.2%	18.0	17
188	Boise State	2	0.2%	24.0	23