1985-86 College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: Louisville

Final Four: Duke, Kansas, LSU and Louisville

Consensus Player of the Year: Walter Berry

AP Preseason #1: Georgia Tech

AP Final #1: Duke

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	189	119	.614	13.32	9.99	1	6	0	Michigan
2	Southeastern Conference	10	185	133	.582	11.75	9.24	0	4	1	Kentucky	Kentucky
3	Mid-Continent Conference	8	120	117	.506	-3.69	-1.61	0	1	0	Cleveland State	Cleveland State
4	Sun Belt Conference	8	142	103	.580	6.75	5.27	0	4	0	Old Dominion	Jacksonville
5	Atlantic Coast Conference	8	178	90	.664	16.39	9.41	0	6	1	Duke	Duke
6	Missouri Valley Conference	9	145	121	.545	2.14	2.97	1	2	0	Bradley	Tulsa
7	Pacific-10 Conference	10	153	140	.522	4.92	4.38	0	2	0	Arizona
8	Big East Conference	9	175	110	.614	10.82	6.30	0	4	0	St. John's (NY), Syracuse	St. John's (NY)
9	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	135	83	.619	9.98	7.39	0	3	1	Louisville	Louisville
10	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	10	163	140	.538	2.30	2.55	0	1	0	Nevada-Las Vegas	Nevada-Las Vegas
11	Southwest Conference	9	142	123	.536	3.49	3.41	0	1	0	TCU, Texas, Texas A&M	Texas Tech
12	Southland Conference	7	119	94	.559	1.30	0.78	0	1	0	Louisiana-Monroe	Louisiana-Monroe
13	Trans America Athletic Conference	9	131	131	.500	-7.73	-5.59	0	1	0	Little Rock	Little Rock
14	Mid-American Conference	10	144	141	.505	-2.60	-1.01	0	2	0	Miami (OH)	Ball State
15	Ohio Valley Conference	8	120	113	.515	-4.40	-2.44	0	1	0	Akron, Middle Tennessee	Akron
16	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference North	10	143	141	.504	-7.06	-5.89	0	1	0	Northeastern	Northeastern
17	Big Eight Conference	8	162	96	.628	12.23	9.43	0	5	1	Kansas	Kansas
18	Atlantic 10 Conference	10	153	142	.519	-1.28	-0.23	0	3	0	Saint Joseph's	Saint Joseph's
19	West Coast Athletic Conference	8	120	107	.529	-2.43	-1.62	0	1	0	Pepperdine
20	Big Sky Conference	8	123	110	.528	-0.70	-0.07	0	1	0	Montana, Northern Arizona	Montana State
21	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro	9	120	138	.465	-13.30	-10.37	0	1	0	Fairleigh Dickinson	Marist
22	Midwestern Collegiate Conference	7	97	104	.483	-0.04	1.01	0	1	0	Xavier	Xavier
23	Western Athletic Conference	9	141	136	.509	0.94	1.60	0	2	0	Utah, UTEP, Wyoming	UTEP
24	Southern Conference	9	135	126	.517	-5.49	-3.26	0	1	0	Chattanooga	Davidson
25	Colonial Athletic Association	8	124	114	.521	-0.23	0.34	0	2	0	Navy	Navy
26	Ivy League	8	100	109	.478	-9.20	-7.31	0	1	0	Brown
27	East Coast Conference	8	108	122	.470	-11.41	-8.90	0	1	0	Drexel	Drexel
28	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	8	104	127	.450	-9.18	-5.75	0	1	0	Fairfield	Fairfield
29	Southwest Athletic Conference	8	108	119	.476	-11.66	-9.37	0	1	0	Alcorn State, Southern	Mississippi Valley State
30	Gulf Star Conference	4	35	72	.327	-11.01	-5.76	0	0	0	Sam Houston State
31	Big South Conference	4	53	62	.461	-13.01	-9.47	0	0	0	Charleston Southern	Charleston Southern
32	Independent	17	253	236	.517	-3.48	-2.53	0	2	0
33	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	8	90	134	.402	-18.32	-13.32	0	1	0	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T

AP Polls

Coaches Polls

Coaches Polls Table
		Week Poll
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
School	Conf	Pre	12/3	12/10	12/17	12/24	12/31	1/7	1/14	1/21	1/28	2/4	2/11	2/18	2/25	3/4	Final
Alabama	SEC												17	18	19		19
Auburn	SEC	11	18
Bradley	MVC							19	19	17	13	13	12	12	9	9	13
DePaul	Ind	19		20	18	18
Duke	ACC	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	4	2	2	2	1	1	1
Georgetown	Big East	8	7	7	6	7	11	15	16	12	12	11	11	13	15	15	15
Georgia Tech	ACC	2	4	6	7	6	6	5	5	3	3	2	5	5	3	6	6
Illinois	Big Ten	7	12	11	13	15	14	19								19	20
Indiana	Big Ten		20	16	16	16	15				16	18	16	14	16	14	14
Iowa	Big Ten	14	19
Kansas	Big 8	4	6	4	4	4	4	9	8	7	5	5	3	3	2	2	2
Kentucky	SEC	12	8	8	14	10	10	11	11	9	9	12	8	7	5	4	4
LSU	SEC	9	11	12	11	8	9	7	14	13	17
Louisville	Metro	10	15	14	17	14	18	17	18	14	15	16	19	16	14	12	7
Maryland	ACC
Memphis	Metro		16	15	11	13	12	6	6	5	2	4	6	4	8	10	12
Michigan	Big Ten	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	8	8	9	8	11	7	5
Michigan State	Big Ten														17	18	18
NC State	ACC	14					20					19	18	17	18
Navy	CAA
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
School	Conf	Pre	12/3	12/10	12/17	12/24	12/31	1/7	1/14	1/21	1/28	2/4	2/11	2/18	2/25	3/4	Final
Notre Dame	Ind	13	13	16	19	17	19	16	13	15	18	17	14	15	12	13	11
Ohio State	Big Ten			19
Oklahoma	Big 8		10	9	8	9	7	8	7	6	6	6	10	9	13	16	17
Pepperdine	WCAC				20					20	20		19	20	20	20
Purdue	Big Ten							18	17	16	20
Richmond	CAA
St. John's (NY)	Big East		14	13	9	11	8	10	9	8	7	10	7	6	10	5	3
Syracuse	Big East	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	11	10	7	13	10	6	8	9
UAB	Sun Belt	16	17	18	15		17	13	12	19
UCLA	Pac-10	20
UNC	ACC	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	8
UNLV	PCAA	18	9	10	10	12	13	12	10	10	11	9	4	11	7	11	10
UTEP	WAC					19	16	14	15	18	14	14	14	19		17	16
Virginia	ACC											20
Virginia Tech	Metro								20		19	15
Washington	Pac-10	17				20
Western Kentucky	Sun Belt

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.

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