1977-78 College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: Kentucky

Final Four: Arkansas, Duke, Kentucky and Notre Dame

Consensus Player of the Year: Butch Lee

AP Preseason #1: North Carolina

AP Final #1: Kentucky

Conference Summary

Sorted by SRS

Conference Summary Table
Rk	Conference	Schls	W	L	W-L%	SRS	SOS	AP	NCAA	FF	Regular Season Champ	Tournament Champ
1	Atlantic Coast Conference	7	140	68	.673	12.87	6.71	2	2	1	North Carolina	Duke
2	Big Ten Conference	10	152	123	.553	8.05	6.41	2	2	0	Michigan State
3	Southeastern Conference	10	153	122	.556	6.76	5.62	1	1	1	Kentucky
4	Big Eight Conference	8	125	100	.556	6.49	5.56	1	2	0	Kansas	Missouri
5	Pacific-8 Conference	8	125	92	.576	6.08	4.89	1	1	0	UCLA
6	Western Athletic Conference	8	127	93	.577	5.79	4.59	2	2	0	New Mexico
7	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	109	86	.559	5.54	4.26	2	2	0	Florida State	Louisville
8	Southwest Conference	9	146	117	.555	4.05	4.21	2	2	1	Arkansas, Texas	Houston
9	Missouri Valley Conference	9	124	129	.490	1.65	2.40	0	1	0	Creighton	Creighton
10	Eastern Athletic Association	8	124	102	.549	1.01	0.41	0	1	0	Rutgers (East), Villanova (East)	Villanova
11	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	8	120	102	.541	0.42	0.96	0	1	0	Fresno State, San Diego State	Cal State Fullerton
12	West Coast Athletic Conference	8	124	94	.569	0.34	0.76	1	1	0	San Francisco
13	Sun Belt Conference	6	91	72	.558	-0.68	-1.28	0	0	0	Charlotte	New Orleans
14	New Jersey-New York 7 Conference	4	57	50	.533	-3.17	-0.78	0	1	0
15	Mid-American Conference	10	126	142	.470	-3.33	-1.39	1	1	0	Miami (OH)
16	Independent	74	1070	884	.548	-4.31	-2.93	4	7	1
17	Ohio Valley Conference	8	105	105	.500	-4.46	-2.72	0	1	0	Eastern Kentucky, Middle Tennessee	Western Kentucky
18	Southland Conference	6	82	81	.503	-4.74	-3.65	0	0	0	Lamar, McNeese State
19	Big Sky Conference	8	106	110	.491	-4.80	-2.18	0	1	0	Montana	Weber State
20	Southern Conference	8	109	113	.491	-5.87	-3.97	0	1	0	Appalachian State	Furman
21	Ivy League	8	94	114	.452	-6.61	-4.42	1	1	0	Pennsylvania
22	Southwest Athletic Conference	5	92	41	.692	-6.70	-7.11	0	0	0	Jackson State, Southern
23	East Coast Conference	12	169	163	.509	-8.06	-6.20	0	1	0	La Salle (East), Lafayette (West)	La Salle
24	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	4	60	43	.583	-12.20	-10.68	0	0	0	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T

AP Poll Summary

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Pre	11/28	12/5	12/12	12/19	12/26	1/2	1/9	1/16	1/23	1/30	2/6	2/13	2/20	2/27	3/6	Final
DePaul	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	18	19	13	11	8	7	6	4	3
Louisville	10	9	16	10	8	7	10	9	9	12	9	9	9	20	20	12	9
Kentucky	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	2	1	1	1
Nebraska	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-
Miami (OH)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19
Marquette	3	4	4	3	2	5	4	4	2	2	3	3	2	1	3	3	8
Alabama	15	15	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Purdue	12	11	-	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Florida State	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	17	15	16	14	12	11	13	15
Michigan	13	13	9	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Indiana	-	-	-	-	-	15	11	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13
Virginia	-	-	-	-	19	16	13	15	13	18	11	13	17	-	-	-	-
Holy Cross	18	17	15	13	12	12	16	13	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Houston	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	-
Illinois State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	19	15	15	15	13	17	-
St. John's (NY)	20	16	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Penn	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20
Kansas State	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minnesota	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-
Cincinnati	9	8	7	6	12	11	12	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Georgetown	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	17	19	16	14	-	18	18	17	-	-
Wake Forest	17	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	-	-	-	-	-
Syracuse	11	12	18	12	10	10	8	8	11	10	18	18	16	17	14	18	-
Maryland	14	14	12	18	20	14	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Notre Dame	4	3	3	2	5	4	5	5	7	5	4	4	7	9	7	10	6
Duke	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	11	17	-	20	13	15	8	7
UCLA	6	6	5	8	7	8	7	7	3	6	5	5	4	3	2	2	2
Utah	-	20	14	-	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	15	14
Detroit	19	19	17	16	15	20	-	-	-	-	-	17	19	16	16	19	18
UNLV	8	10	10	9	9	9	9	11	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Arkansas	7	7	6	4	4	3	3	3	6	4	2	2	1	4	4	7	5
Texas	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	15	12	12	12	14	12	16	17
NC State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kansas	-	-	19	20	16	17	14	10	8	8	8	8	6	6	5	9	10
UNC	1	2	2	5	3	2	2	2	5	3	6	7	11	8	10	11	16
Indiana State	-	-	11	7	6	6	6	6	4	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Providence	-	-	20	14	14	13	17	14	12	9	16	20	13	11	18	-	-
New Mexico	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	14	10	6	5	5	8	5	12
Michigan State	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	12	10	7	7	10	10	10	9	6	4
San Francisco	5	5	8	11	11	19	19	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	20	11

Award Winners

Consensus All-America Teams

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

Season Leaders

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