In its 75th year, the AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll is still driving discussion across the sport

By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Basketball Writer

When it was introduced 75 years ago, the purpose of the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll was to foster discussion and debate. That has not changed. Whether the controversy is over which team a national panel of 63 voters installs at No. 1 each Monday, or whether certain teams should be included at all, the poll continues to produce talking points that have spilled from water coolers of yesterday to the social media of the modern age.