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

AP Poll Summary

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Pre	12/3	12/10	12/17	12/26	1/2	1/7	1/14	1/21	1/28	2/4	2/11	2/18	2/25	Final
DePaul	9	10	11	6	4	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Washington State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-
Louisville	10	14	12	11	12	15	11	7	7	7	3	3	2	4	2
Kentucky	2	5	5	3	2	2	4	6	5	3	5	5	3	2	4
Marquette	18	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Purdue	11	12	9	9	8	8	10	11	14	17	12	15	15	18	20
Indiana	1	1	1	5	10	11	19	19	16	18	20	-	19	13	7
Virginia	13	13	13	12	14	13	8	12	17	13	18	-	-	-	-
Arizona State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	18	18	15	18
St. John's (NY)	16	9	15	15	15	17	14	10	9	9	8	7	7	8	13
Kansas State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	19	-	-	-
Georgetown	19	17	16	17	17	18	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	11
Tennessee	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	19	-	-	-	-	-	-
Syracuse	12	11	10	10	9	9	5	3	6	4	2	2	4	3	6
Maryland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	12	7	8	9	7	8
BYU	15	18	18	18	20	19	17	18	20	19	14	13	14	12	12
Notre Dame	5	4	4	4	3	7	7	8	8	8	9	12	10	14	9
Iona	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19
Duke	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	5	3	5	10	16	17	-	14
UCLA	8	7	7	14	16	16	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Oregon State	17	15	14	19	18	14	9	4	2	2	4	4	6	6	5
Clemson	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	17	12	16	16	10	12	17	-
Arkansas	-	-	20	20	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NC State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	-	-	-	-	-	19	-
LSU	7	6	6	7	5	4	6	14	11	10	6	6	5	5	3
Missouri	-	-	19	16	13	12	13	15	10	14	15	14	13	11	16
Texas A&M	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Illinois	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Iowa	-	20	17	13	11	10	12	13	-	-	-	20	-	-	-
Ohio State	4	3	3	2	7	5	3	2	4	6	13	9	11	9	10
Kansas	20	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UNC	6	8	8	8	6	6	15	9	13	11	11	11	8	10	15
Weber State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	15	17	17	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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