ESPN/USA TODAY POLL
November 29, 1998
The Top Twenty Five teams in the USA Today/ESPN college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 29, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
| Record | Points | Previous | |
| 1. Connecticut (21) | 4-0 | 734 | 3 |
| 2. Maryland (8) | 7-0 | 725 | 5 |
| 3. North Carolina (1) | 6-0 | 669 | 8 |
| 4. Duke | 5-1 | 657 | 1 |
| 5. Stanford | 4-1 | 595 | 2 |
| 6. Kansas | 4-0 | 566 | 7 |
| 7. Cincinnati | 4-0 | 559 | 14 |
| 8. Kentucky | 5-1 | 508 | 4 |
| 9. Michigan State | 4-1 | 471 | 9 |
| 10. Temple | 4-1 | 469 | 6 |
| 11. Syracuse | 5-0 | 434 | 18 |
| 12. Purdue | 6-1 | 411 | 11 |
| 13. Arizona | 3-0 | 379 | 15 |
| 14. Washington | 3-0 | 348 | 16 |
| 15. Oklahoma State | 4-0 | 334 | 17 |
| 16. Indiana | 6-1 | 301 | 13 |
| 17. Arkansas | 5-1 | 213 | 19 |
| 18. New Mexico | 4-0 | 209 | 20 |
| 19. UCLA | 2-2 | 183 | 12 |
| 20. Utah | 3-2 | 159 | 11 |
| 21. Pittsburgh | 6-1 | 124 | - |
| 22. Xavier | 4-2 | 120 | 10 |
| 23. Miami, Ohio | 4-0 | 109 | - |
| 24. Clemson | 5-1 | 98 | 24 |
| 25. St. John's | 3-2 | 78 | 23 |