AP MEN'S TOP 25
November 22, 1998
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 22, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and last week's ranking:
| Record | Points | Previous | |
| 1. Duke (41) | 3-0 | 1,736 | 1 |
| 2. Connecticut (17) | 2-0 | 1,693 | 2 |
| 3. Stanford (12) | 3-0 | 1,657 | 3 |
| 4. Kentucky (1) | 3-0 | 1,524 | 4 |
| 5. Maryland | 3-0 | 1,474 | 6 |
| 6. Temple | 4-0 | 1,410 | 7 |
| 7. Michigan State | 2-1 | 1,195 | 5 |
| 8. Kansas | 3-0 | 1,181 | 8 |
| 9. North Carolina | 3-0 | 1,128 | 10 |
| 10. UCLA | 1-0 | 1,014 | 11 |
| 11. Arizona | 1-0 | 978 | 12 |
| 12. Oklahoma State | 3-0 | 927 | 13 |
| 13. Xavier | 2-0 | 860 | 16 |
| 14. Purdue | 4-0 | 856 | 15 |
| 15. Cincinnati | 1-0 | 826 | 17 |
| 16. Washington | 1-0 | 825 | 14 |
| 17. Indiana | 4-0 | 644 | 21 |
| 18. Utah | 1-1 | 538 | 9 |
| 19. Syracuse | 2-0 | 531 | 22 |
| 20. New Mexico | 2-0 | 483 | 20 |
| 21. Arkansas | 4-1 | 299 | 19 |
| 22. Clemson | 3-0 | 254 | 24 |
| 23. St. John's | 2-0 | 175 | - |
| 24. Miami, Ohio | 3-0 | 168 | - |
| 25. Tennessee | 2-2 | 137 | 18 |