1979-80 Men's 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

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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	Southwest Athletic Conference	6	91	80	.532	-7.28	-6.36	0	1	0	Alcorn State	Alcorn State
4	Southeastern Conference	10	165	127	.565	7.37	6.35	2	3	0	Kentucky	Louisiana State
5	Southwest Conference	9	137	120	.533	1.57	1.69	0	2	0	Texas A&M	Texas A&M
6	Missouri Valley Conference	9	139	115	.547	2.78	2.65	0	1	0	Bradley	Bradley
7	Big East Conference	7	140	63	.690	6.62	1.62	3	3	0	Georgetown, St. John's (NY), Syracuse	Georgetown
8	Eastern Athletic Association	8	120	104	.536	1.70	0.78	0	1	0	Duquesne, Rutgers, Villanova	Villanova
9	Sun Belt Conference	8	111	114	.493	-2.24	-1.28	0	2	0	South Alabama	Virginia Commonwealth
10	Pacific-10 Conference	10	159	122	.566	6.25	5.26	2	4	1	Oregon State
11	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	124	81	.605	4.53	3.96	1	3	1	Louisville	Louisville
12	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference North	10	137	138	.498	-5.81	-3.49	0	1	0	Boston University, Northeastern	Holy Cross
13	Big Eight Conference	8	133	97	.578	4.13	3.86	1	2	0	Missouri	Kansas State
14	West Coast Athletic Conference	9	126	120	.512	-1.03	-0.33	0	1	0	Saint Mary's, San Francisco
15	Mid-American Conference	10	141	134	.513	-1.94	-0.79	0	1	0	Toledo	Toledo
16	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	8	119	107	.527	1.58	1.38	0	2	0	Utah State	San Jose State
17	Midwestern City Conference	6	88	78	.530	-0.54	0.94	0	0	0	Loyola (IL)	Oral Roberts
18	Southland Conference	6	104	67	.608	-0.74	-1.53	0	1	0	Lamar
19	East Coast Conference	12	164	168	.494	-7.68	-5.65	0	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	0	Louisiana-Monroe	Centenary (LA)
21	Ivy League	8	92	121	.432	-10.25	-6.37	0	1	0	Pennsylvania
22	Western Athletic Conference	9	124	123	.502	-0.21	1.52	1	1	0	Brigham Young
23	Ohio Valley Conference	7	100	92	.521	-2.98	-1.96	0	1	0	Murray State, Western Kentucky	Western Kentucky
24	Southern Conference	9	130	119	.522	-7.59	-6.13	0	1	0	Furman	Furman
25	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference South	11	135	162	.455	-8.34	-5.10	0	1	0
26	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro	11	152	154	.497	-6.39	-3.70	1	1	0
27	Independent	21	325	247	.568	-1.65	-1.80	2	3	0
28	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	5	63	77	.450	-11.80	-8.31	0	0	0	Howard	Howard
29	Big Sky Conference	8	117	100	.539	-4.05	-2.05	1	1	0	Weber State	Weber State

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