1979-80 College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: Louisville

Final Four: Iowa, Louisville, Purdue and UCLA

Consensus Player of the Year: Mark Aguirre

AP Preseason #1: Indiana

AP Final #1: DePaul

Conference Summary

Sorted by SRS

Conference Summary Table
Rk	Conference	Schls	W	L	W-L%	SRS	SOS	NCAA	FF	Regular Season Champ	Tournament Champ
1	Big Ten Conference	10	185	119	.609	14.43	10.73	4	2	Indiana
2	Atlantic Coast Conference	8	157	83	.654	12.05	7.55	5	0	Maryland	Duke
3	Southwest Athletic Conference	6	91	80	.532	-7.28	-6.36	1	0	Alcorn State	Alcorn State
4	Southeastern Conference	10	165	127	.565	7.37	6.35	3	0	Kentucky	Louisiana State
5	Southwest Conference	9	137	120	.533	1.57	1.69	2	0	Texas A&M	Texas A&M
6	Missouri Valley Conference	9	140	114	.551	2.78	2.65	1	0	Bradley	Bradley
7	Big East Conference	7	140	63	.690	6.62	1.62	3	0	Georgetown, St. John's (NY), Syracuse	Georgetown
8	Eastern Athletic Association	8	120	104	.536	1.70	0.78	1	0	Duquesne, Rutgers, Villanova	Villanova
9	Sun Belt Conference	8	111	114	.493	-2.24	-1.28	2	0	South Alabama	Virginia Commonwealth
10	Pacific-10 Conference	10	159	122	.566	6.25	5.26	4	1	Oregon State
11	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	124	81	.605	4.53	3.96	3	1	Louisville	Louisville
12	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference North	10	137	138	.498	-5.81	-3.49	1	0	Boston University, Northeastern	Holy Cross
13	Big Eight Conference	8	133	97	.578	4.13	3.86	2	0	Missouri	Kansas State
14	West Coast Athletic Conference	9	128	118	.520	-1.03	-0.33	1	0	Saint Mary's (CA), San Francisco
15	Mid-American Conference	10	141	134	.513	-1.94	-0.79	1	0	Toledo	Toledo
16	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	8	119	107	.527	1.58	1.38	2	0	Utah State	San Jose State
17	Midwestern City Conference	6	88	78	.530	-0.54	0.94	0	0	Loyola (IL)	Oral Roberts
18	Southland Conference	6	104	67	.608	-0.74	-1.53	1	0	Lamar
19	East Coast Conference	12	164	168	.494	-7.68	-5.65	1	0	Saint Joseph's (East), Lafayette (West)	La Salle
20	Trans America Athletic Conference	10	121	150	.446	-7.29	-3.94	0	0	Louisiana-Monroe	Centenary (LA)
21	Ivy League	8	92	121	.432	-10.25	-6.37	1	0	Pennsylvania
22	Western Athletic Conference	9	124	123	.502	-0.21	1.52	1	0	Brigham Young
23	Ohio Valley Conference	7	100	92	.521	-2.98	-1.96	1	0	Murray State, Western Kentucky	Western Kentucky
24	Southern Conference	9	130	119	.522	-7.59	-6.13	1	0	Furman	Furman
25	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference South	11	135	162	.455	-8.34	-5.10	1	0
26	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro	11	152	154	.497	-6.39	-3.70	1	0
27	Independent	21	325	247	.568	-1.65	-1.80	3	0
28	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	5	63	77	.450	-11.80	-8.31	0	0	Howard	Howard
29	Big Sky Conference	8	117	100	.539	-4.05	-2.05	1	0	Weber State	Weber State

AP Polls

Coaches Polls

Coaches Polls Table
		Week Poll
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
School	Conf	Pre	12/4	12/11	12/18	12/26	1/2	1/8	1/15	1/22	1/29	2/5	2/12	2/19	2/26	Final
Arizona State	Pac-10									20		16	18	17	14	19
Arkansas	SWC		20	19	19	19
BYU	WAC	17	18	18	18	20			20		18	14	14	14	13	12
Clemson	ACC							16	14	13	17		16	18	19
DePaul	Ind	9	10	10	7	5	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Duke	ACC	6	2	2	1	1	1	1	5	3	7	12	19			16
Georgetown	Big East		16	16	17	13	20									10
Illinois	Big Ten						19
Indiana	Big Ten	1	1	1	4	8	11	17		16	16	18		13	12	7
Iona	ECACM														20
Iowa	Big Ten	18		14	13	10	9	11	12
Kansas	Big 8		18
Kansas State	Big 8										19	19	17			20
Kentucky	SEC	5	6	5	3	2	2	4	9	9	6	6	5	4	3	3
LSU	SEC	8	5	7	6	6	6	6	17	11	10	7	6	6	6	2
Louisville	Metro	14	15	13	11	12	15	12	6	6	5	3	3	3	4	4
Marquette	Ind	19	16
Maryland	ACC									14	13	5	7	7	7	8
Missouri	Big 8				16	14	14	14	13	10	12	15	10	9	9	14
NC State	ACC								16				20	20	17
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
School	Conf	Pre	12/4	12/11	12/18	12/26	1/2	1/8	1/15	1/22	1/29	2/5	2/12	2/19	2/26	Final
Notre Dame	Ind	3	4	4	5	3	8	8	7	8	9	9	13	10	15	11
Ohio State	Big Ten	2	3	3	2	7	5	3	2	4	4	13	9	11	11	9
Oregon State	Pac-10	16	14	12	20	17	12	7	4	2	2	4	4	5	5	5
Purdue	Big Ten	11	9	9	7	9	7	9	11	15	20	10	12	15
St. John's (NY)	Big East	15	11	15	15	16	13	13	8	7	8	8	8	11	8	13
Syracuse	Big East	12	12	11	10	11	10	5	3	5	3	2	2	2	2	6
Tennessee	SEC							18	18	18
Texas A&M	SWC	13										20			18	18
UCLA	Pac-10	7	8	6	12	15	16	19
UNC	ACC	4	7	8	9	4	4	15	10	12	11	11	11	8	9	15
UNLV	Ind	20
USC	Pac-10			20
Virginia	ACC	9	13	17	14	18	17	10	15	19	14
Washington State	Pac-10													19
Weber State	Big Sky						18	20	19	16	15	17	15	16	16	17

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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