By Kimberly Paschal | Sports Editor
The 2016-2017 NCAA basketball season officially begins on Friday, November 11. Each year, the Associated Press releases a preseason and weekly poll on the top 25 teams in men’s basketball poll. The AP basketball poll started on January 20, 1949 and has never missed a release of the poll. Among college basketball fans, the AP poll is one of the most well respected rankings because the majority, if not all, of the teams in the poll throughout the season end up in the NCAA Tournament.