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1951-52 Independent Season Summary
Record: 641-418, .605 W-L% (3rd of 17)
*Record does not reflect forfeits or vacated games.
Regular Season Champion: Seton Hall
NCAA Tournament: 5 (Dayton, Duquesne, Oklahoma City, Penn State and Santa Clara)
Ranked in First AP Poll: 5 (La Salle, Louisville, Notre Dame, Seton Hall and Villanova)
Ranked in Final AP Poll: 7 (Dayton, Duquesne, Holy Cross, Louisville, Seattle, Seton Hall and Texas State)
Standings
| Conference | Overall | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | School | W | L | W-L% | W | L | W-L% |
| Texas State | 30 | 1 | .968 | ||||
| Seton Hall R | 25 | 3 | .893 | ||||
| Holy Cross | 24 | 4 | .857 | ||||
| Duquesne* | 23 | 4 | .852 | ||||
| Dayton* | 28 | 5 | .848 | ||||
| La Salle | 24 | 5 | .828 | ||||
| Boston College | 22 | 5 | .815 | ||||
| Siena | 24 | 6 | .800 | ||||
| Seattle | 27 | 8 | .771 | ||||
| Louisville | 20 | 6 | .769 | ||||
| Penn State* | 20 | 6 | .769 | ||||
| Saint Joseph's | 20 | 7 | .741 | ||||
| DePaul | 19 | 8 | .704 | ||||
| Oklahoma City* | 19 | 8 | .704 | ||||
| Villanova | 19 | 8 | .704 | ||||
| Syracuse | 14 | 6 | .700 | ||||
| Navy | 16 | 7 | .696 | ||||
| Loyola (IL) | 17 | 8 | .680 | ||||
| Miami (FL) | 14 | 8 | .636 | ||||
| Bowling Green State | 17 | 10 | .630 | ||||
| Notre Dame | 16 | 10 | .615 | ||||
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 16 | 10 | .615 | ||||
| Georgetown | 15 | 10 | .600 | ||||
| San Jose State | 15 | 10 | .600 | ||||
| Bradley | 17 | 12 | .586 | ||||
| Santa Clara* F | 17 | 12 | .586 | ||||
| Loyola (LA) | 16 | 13 | .552 | ||||
| Drake | 13 | 12 | .520 | ||||
| Butler | 12 | 12 | .500 | ||||
| Valparaiso | 12 | 12 | .500 | ||||
| Washington (MO) | 9 | 10 | .474 | ||||
| Army | 8 | 9 | .471 | ||||
| Loyola Marymount | 12 | 14 | .462 | ||||
| Marquette | 12 | 14 | .462 | ||||
| San Francisco | 11 | 13 | .458 | ||||
| Virginia | 11 | 13 | .458 | ||||
| Colgate | 10 | 12 | .455 | ||||
| Pittsburgh | 10 | 12 | .455 | ||||
| John Carroll | 11 | 14 | .440 | ||||
| Muhlenburg | 10 | 13 | .435 | ||||
| Baldwin-Wallace | 9 | 12 | .429 | ||||
| Xavier | 10 | 14 | .417 | ||||
| Temple | 9 | 15 | .375 | ||||
| Bucknell | 8 | 16 | .333 | ||||
| Creighton | 6 | 15 | .286 | ||||
| Brown | 5 | 15 | .250 | ||||
AP Poll Summary
| School | 12/10 | 12/17 | 12/25 | 1/1 | 1/8 | 1/15 | 1/22 | 1/29 | 2/5 | 2/12 | 2/19 | 2/26 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duquesne | 16 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Dayton | 20 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | ||||
| Holy Cross | 17 | 20 | 11 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 13 | |||||
| Seton Hall | 7 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| Louisville | 17 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 17 | |||
| Seattle | 16 | 18 | |||||||||||
| Texas State | 20 | ||||||||||||
| DePaul | 19 | 18 | |||||||||||
| La Salle | 9 | 12 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |||||
| Notre Dame | 14 | 20 | 9 | 14 | |||||||||
| Oklahoma City | 15 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 13 | |||||||
| Penn State | 14 | 17 | 13 | ||||||||||
| Siena | 17 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 20 | ||||||
| Syracuse | 20 | 19 | 14 | ||||||||||
| Villanova | 15 | 18 | 14 | 19 |
NCAA Tournament
Regional Third Place
Dayton won (77-61) versus Princeton (East Regional)
Oklahoma City won (55-53) versus UCLA (West Regional)
Penn State lost (69-60) versus North Carolina State (East Regional)
National Third Place
Santa Clara lost (67-64) versus Illinois
Regional Semifinal
Dayton lost (80-61) versus Illinois (East Regional)
Duquesne won (60-49) versus Princeton (East Regional)
Oklahoma City lost (54-48) versus Wyoming (West Regional)
Penn State lost (82-54) versus Kentucky (East Regional)
Santa Clara won (68-59) versus UCLA (West Regional)
Regional Final
Duquesne lost (74-68) versus Illinois (East Regional)
Santa Clara won (56-53) versus Wyoming (West Regional)
National Semifinal
Santa Clara lost (74-55) versus Kansas (West Regional)
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