Two human polls made up the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings, the AP Poll

AP Poll

The Associated Press College Poll refers to weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling sportswriters across the nation...

 and the Coaches Poll

Coaches Poll

The USA Today Coaches' Poll is the current name for a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football and Division I college basketball teams....

, in addition to various publications' preseason polls.

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week
Italics		Number of first place votes
(#-#)		Win-loss record
т		Tied with team above or below also with this symbol

AP poll

The Associated Press

Associated Press

The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

 (AP) preseason poll was released on November 2, 2009. This poll is compiled by sportswriters across the nation. In Division I men's and women's college basketball, the AP Poll is largely just a tool to compare schools throughout the season and spark debate, as it has no bearing on postseason play. Generally, all top 25 teams in the poll are invited to the NCAA basketball tournament, also known as March Madness

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...

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ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll

The Coaches Poll is the second oldest poll still in use after the AP Poll. It is compiled by a rotating group of 31 college Division I head coaches. The Poll operates by Borda count

Borda count

The Borda count is a single-winner election method in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. The Borda count determines the winner of an election by giving each candidate a certain number of points corresponding to the position in which he or she is ranked by each voter. Once all...

. Each voting member ranks teams from 1 to 25. Each team then receives points for their ranking in reverse order: Number 1 earns 25 points, number 2 earns 24 points, and so forth. The points are then combined and the team with the highest points is then ranked #1; second highest is ranked #2 and so forth. Only the top 25 teams with points are ranked, with teams receiving first place votes noted the quantity next to their name. Any team receiving votes after the top 25 are listed after the top 25 by their point totals. However, these are not real rankings: They are not considered #26, #27, etc. The maximum points a single team can earn is 775. The preseason poll was released on November 2, 2009.

Preseason polls

Various publications and news sources release their preseason top 25 months before the season commences.

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1.	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas
2.	Michigan State	Texas	Kentucky	Kentucky	Kentucky	Michigan State	Michigan State	Kentucky	Michigan State
3.	Texas	Michigan State	Michigan State	Texas	Michigan State	Connecticut	Villanova	Michigan State	Texas
4.	Purdue	Villanova	North Carolina	Michigan State	Texas	Villanova	Texas	Villanova	Villanova
5.	North Carolina	North Carolina	West Virginia	North Carolina	North Carolina	Kentucky	Kentucky	Purdue	North Carolina
6.	Kentucky	Purdue	Texas	West Virginia	Villanova	Texas	Purdue	Texas	Purdue
7.	Villanova	Butler	Purdue	Villanova	Connecticut	Purdue	North Carolina	North Carolina	Kentucky
8.	Tennessee	Kentucky	Duke	California	Purdue	West Virginia	West Virginia	Duke	California
9.	Oklahoma	Michigan	Villanova	Washington	West Virginia	North Carolina	Washington	West Virginia	Duke
10.	West Virginia	California	Mississippi State	Purdue	Duke	Butler	Connecticut	California	Tennessee
11.	Connecticut	Duke	Georgetown	Tennessee	Butler	Washington	California	Butler	Butler
12.	Butler	Tennessee	Tennessee	Connecticut	Washington	Duke	Duke	Connecticut	West Virginia
13.	Georgia Tech	Georgia Tech	Washington	Duke	Clemson	Tennessee	Tennessee	Ohio State	Georgia Tech
14.	California	Oklahoma	Butler	Butler	Tennessee	California	Butler	Michigan	Minnesota
15.	Mississippi State	Louisville	Connecticut	Ohio State	Oklahoma	Ohio State	Michigan	Washington	Syracuse
16.	Vanderbilt	Washington	California	Michigan	Minnesota	Michigan	Ohio State	Oklahoma	Ohio State
17.	Washington	Dayton	Clemson	Georgia Tech	Dayton	Clemson	Louisville	Tennessee	Oklahoma
18.	Duke	West Virginia	Wake Forest	Illinois	Ohio State	Georgetown	Mississippi State	Georgetown	Connecticut
19.	Louisville	Tulsa	Ohio State	Georgetown	Michigan	Dayton	Georgetown	Oklahoma State	Dayton
20.	BYU	Maryland	Maryland	Minnesota	California	Siena	Siena	Louisville	Maryland
21.	Georgetown	Mississippi St	Illinois	Oklahoma	Siena	Mississippi St	Georgia Tech	Siena	Oklahoma St
22.	Maryland	Ohio State	Notre Dame	Siena	Louisville	South Carolina	Dayton	Dayton	Michigan
23.	Michigan	UCLA	Dayton	Vanderbilt	Illinois	Georgia Tech	Maryland	Clemson	Washington
24.	Clemson	South Carolina	Michigan	Xavier	Georgetown	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Illinois	Georgetown
25.	Dayton	Illinois	Florida State	Mississippi	Gonzaga	Gonzaga	Illinois	Georgia Tech	Siena/Illinois