<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>
who votes for the ap top 25 basketball
65 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the nation