1962-63 College Basketball Season Summary

National Champion: Loyola (IL)

Final Four: Cincinnati, Duke, Loyola (IL) and Oregon State

Consensus Player of the Year: Art Heyman

AP Preseason #1: Cincinnati

AP Final #1: Cincinnati

Conference Summary

Conference Summary Table
Rk	Conference	Schls	W	L	W-L%	SRS	SOS	AP	NCAA	FF	Regular Season Champ	Tournament Champ
1	Athletic Association of Western Universities	5	82	51	.617	9.55	6.69	0	1	0	Stanford, UCLA
2	Missouri Valley Conference	7	116	67	.634	8.70	5.84	2	1	1	Cincinnati
3	Big Ten Conference	10	124	114	.521	7.15	6.43	2	1	0	Illinois, Ohio State
4	Big Eight Conference	8	105	96	.522	5.01	4.88	1	1	0	Colorado, Kansas State
5	Western Athletic Conference	6	90	68	.570	3.07	3.39	1	1	0	Arizona State
6	Atlantic Coast Conference	8	102	91	.528	1.42	1.31	1	1	1	Duke	Duke
7	Southeastern Conference	12	166	129	.563	0.00	-0.39	1	1	0	Mississippi State
8	Metropolitan New York Conference	5	70	49	.588	-0.03	-0.34	1	1	0	Fordham
9	Independent	56	779	604	.563	-1.13	-0.17	1	9	2
10	Southwest Conference	8	90	103	.466	-1.61	0.01	0	1	0	Texas
11	Mid-American Conference	7	79	88	.473	-2.29	-0.04	0	1	0	Bowling Green State
12	West Coast Athletic Conference	7	89	89	.500	-3.20	-1.10	0	1	0	San Francisco
13	Southern Conference	9	108	118	.478	-4.24	-2.86	0	1	0	West Virginia	West Virginia
14	Ivy Group	8	97	92	.513	-7.82	-6.51	0	1	0	Princeton
15	Ohio Valley Conference	7	79	75	.513	-9.32	-7.42	0	1	0	Morehead State, Tennessee Tech
16	Middle Atlantic Conference	9	114	100	.533	-11.23	-8.74	0	1	0	Saint Joseph's
17	Yankee Conference	6	70	75	.483	-14.79	-11.16	0	1	0	Connecticut

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Pre	12/4	12/11	12/18	12/25	1/1	1/8	1/15	1/22	1/29	2/5	2/12	2/19	2/26	3/5	Final
Duke	2	2	2	2	8	7	6	5	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	2
Colorado	-	-	8	6	-	-	-	-	-	8	7	7	-	-	-	10
Kentucky	3	9	-	9	5	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
West Virginia	5	3	6	7	-	-	9	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wisconsin	10	6	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UCLA	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wichita State	-	10	-	-	-	8	8	7	8	10	9	-	7	8	6	5
Loyola (IL)	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	5	3
Oregon State	7	7	9	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NYU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	9	-	9
USC	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Indiana	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Auburn	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-
Illinois	8	-	10	8	4	3	5	3	3	4	4	4	6	6	8	8
Seattle	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Arizona State	-	-	-	-	6	4	3	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
Ohio State	-	-	3	3	2	5	4	8	-	-	-	9	5	5	3	7
Mississippi State	6	5	5	5	10	-	-	9	9	9	8	6	8	7	7	6
UNC	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Stanford	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-	10	7	10	8	-	-	9	-
Providence	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-
Cincinnati	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Georgia Tech	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	6	7	6	6	10	-	10	-	-
St. Bonaventure	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Statistical coverage for seasons prior to 1992-93 is mostly complete, however there are a small number of unknown player records.

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