<Tr> <Th> Div I men's basketball </Th> <Td> 2017--18 season </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Div I women's basketball </Th> <Td> 2017--18 season </Td> </Tr> <P> The Associated Press (AP Poll) provides 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 65 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the nation . Each voter provides his own ranking of the top 25 teams, and the individual rankings are then combined to produce the national ranking by giving a team 25 points for a first place vote, 24 for a second place vote, and so on down to 1 point for a twenty - fifth place vote . Ballots of the voting members in the AP Poll are made public . </P> <P> The football poll is released Sundays at 2pm Eastern time during the football season, unless ranked teams have not finished their games . </P>

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