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How was the data sourced?

All AP WBB Poll data was assembled via cross-referencing the NCAA Record Book, newspaper clippings, and (with great appreciation) via first-hand data from the poll's originator, Mel Greenberg.

How are rises and falls calculated?

For the purposes of calculating changes from one poll to another — the next poll, or a season's final poll measured against its preseason poll — a team that is unranked is considered to be ranked one outside the typical poll size. From the 1976-1977 season through the 1988-1989 season, the poll was a Top 20. It has been a Top 25 since. A season counts as having a final poll once it is over; nothing in the data marks one, so the season in progress has no preseason-to-final moves yet.