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1987-88 Big Eight Conference Season Summary

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Record: 160-102, .611 W-L% (4th of 33) (Schedule and Results)
*Record does not reflect forfeits or vacated games.
SRS: 12.36 (4th of 33) ▪ SOS: 8.93 (2nd of 33)

Regular Season Champion: Oklahoma
Tournament Champion: Oklahoma

NCAA Tournament: 5 (Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Oklahoma)

Ranked in Preseason AP Poll: 3 (Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma)
Ranked in Final AP Poll: 2 (Kansas State and Oklahoma)

Standings

Conference Overall PTS/G SRS
Rk School W L W-L% W L W-L% Own Opp SRS SOS
1 Oklahoma* RTF 12 2 .857 35 4 .897 102.9 81.0 29.5 7.6
2 Kansas State*  11 3 .786 25 9 .735 74.8 69.1 15.8 10.1
3 Kansas* FN 9 5 .643 27 11 .711 73.8 68.9 15.7 10.8
4 Missouri*  7 7 .500 19 11 .633 86.7 78.0 17.8 9.1
5 Iowa State*  6 8 .429 20 12 .625 90.0 84.9 12.7 7.5
6 Oklahoma State  4 10 .286 14 16 .467 73.3 74.5 6.6 7.8
7 Nebraska  4 10 .286 13 18 .419 70.0 75.4 1.5 6.8
8 Colorado  3 11 .214 7 21 .250 68.8 81.0 -0.6 11.6

AP Poll Summary

School Pre 12/1 12/8 12/15 12/22 12/29 1/5 1/12 1/19 1/26 2/2 2/9 2/16 2/23 3/1 3/8 Final
Oklahoma 19 18 16 14 12 10 8 3 11 10 7 4 4 4 4 4 4
Kansas State                       14         20
Iowa State       20 16 16 17 14 10 12 16            
Kansas 7 16 18 17 18 17 18 16 16                
Missouri 8 8 9 16 17               15 15      

NCAA Tournament

First Round
Iowa State lost (90-78) versus Georgia Tech (East Regional)
Kansas won (85-72) versus Xavier (Midwest Regional)
Kansas State won (66-53) versus La Salle (Midwest Regional)
Missouri lost (87-80) versus Rhode Island (East Regional)
Oklahoma won (94-66) versus Chattanooga (Southeast Regional)

Second Round
Kansas won (61-58) versus Murray State (Midwest Regional)
Kansas State won (66-58) versus DePaul (Midwest Regional)
Oklahoma won (107-87) versus Auburn (Southeast Regional)

Regional Semifinal
Kansas won (77-64) versus Vanderbilt (Midwest Regional)
Kansas State won (73-70) versus Purdue (Midwest Regional)
Oklahoma won (108-98) versus Louisville (Southeast Regional)

Regional Final
Kansas won (71-58) versus Kansas State (Midwest Regional)
Kansas State lost (71-58) versus Kansas (Midwest Regional)
Oklahoma won (78-59) versus Villanova (Southeast Regional)

National Semifinal
Kansas won (66-59) versus Duke
Oklahoma won (86-78) versus Arizona

National Final
Kansas won (83-79) versus Oklahoma
Oklahoma lost (83-79) versus Kansas