The following is Journal-World sports editor Tom Keegan’s Associated Press ballot for the college basketball poll on Nov. 26, 2012.
- Duke
- Ohio State
- Indiana
- Syracuse
- Michigan
- Florida
- Louisville
- Kentucky
- Oklahoma State
- Georgetown
- Kansas
- Arizona
- Creighton
- Cincinnati
- Gonzaga
- Michigan State
- Missouri
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Pittsburgh
- California
- North Carolina
- New Mexico
- Wichita State
- Connecticut