1987-88 College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: Kansas

Final Four: Arizona, Duke, Kansas and Oklahoma

Consensus Player of the Year: Hersey Hawkins

AP Preseason #1: Syracuse

AP Final #1: Temple

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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	Atlantic Coast Conference	8	156	95	.622	13.32	8.14	3	5	1	North Carolina	Duke
2	Big East Conference	9	182	110	.623	12.81	8.05	2	6	0	Pittsburgh	Syracuse
3	Big Ten Conference	10	180	128	.584	12.80	9.21	4	5	0	Purdue
4	Big Eight Conference	8	160	102	.611	12.36	8.93	2	5	2	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
5	Southeastern Conference	10	182	131	.581	10.13	8.12	1	5	0	Kentucky	Kentucky
6	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	131	82	.615	9.83	5.83	0	3	0	Louisville	Louisville
7	Pacific-10 Conference	10	160	146	.523	7.22	6.67	1	2	1	Arizona	Arizona
8	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	10	160	141	.532	6.22	5.59	1	3	0	Nevada-Las Vegas	Utah State
9	Western Athletic Conference	9	165	119	.581	6.13	4.20	2	3	0	Brigham Young	Wyoming
10	West Coast Athletic Conference	8	130	103	.558	2.70	1.94	1	1	0	Loyola Marymount	Loyola Marymount
11	Missouri Valley Conference	8	121	115	.513	2.32	2.68	1	2	0	Bradley	Bradley
12	Southwest Conference	9	146	127	.535	1.62	1.53	0	3	0	Southern Methodist	Southern Methodist
13	Atlantic 10 Conference	10	160	141	.532	1.12	1.29	1	2	0	Temple	Temple
14	Midwestern Collegiate Conference	6	95	79	.546	1.11	-0.36	1	1	0	Xavier	Xavier
15	American South Conference	6	110	75	.595	0.82	-0.66	0	0	0	Louisiana Tech, New Orleans	Louisiana Tech
16	Sun Belt Conference	8	123	118	.510	-0.25	0.83	0	1	0	Charlotte	Charlotte
17	Mid-Continent Conference	8	124	101	.551	-1.67	-0.76	0	1	0	Missouri State
18	Big Sky Conference	9	135	125	.519	-2.09	-0.75	0	1	0	Boise State	Boise State
19	Atlantic Sun Conference	10	154	136	.531	-3.17	-1.97	0	1	0	Arkansas-Little Rock, Georgia Southern	Texas-San Antonio
20	Ohio Valley Conference	8	115	120	.489	-3.72	-1.56	0	1	0	Murray State	Murray State
21	Mid-American Conference	9	129	130	.498	-3.87	-2.16	0	1	0	Eastern Michigan	Eastern Michigan
22	Southland Conference	8	101	132	.433	-4.90	-3.52	0	1	0	North Texas	North Texas
23	Colonial Athletic Association	8	115	118	.494	-4.97	-2.79	0	1	0	Richmond	Richmond
24	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	8	111	127	.466	-6.22	-4.25	0	1	0	La Salle	La Salle
25	East Coast Conference	8	123	107	.535	-7.25	-6.63	0	1	0	Lafayette	Lehigh
26	Southern Conference	9	136	128	.515	-7.26	-5.08	0	1	0	Marshall	Chattanooga
27	Independent	18	222	291	.433	-8.05	-4.10	0	2	0
28	Ivy Group	8	97	112	.464	-9.47	-5.61	0	1	0	Cornell
29	Big South Conference	7	99	99	.500	-10.27	-7.57	0	0	0	Coastal Carolina	Winthrop
30	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference North	10	122	165	.425	-10.45	-7.58	0	1	0	Siena	Boston University
31	Southwest Athletic Conference	8	100	130	.435	-11.30	-6.58	0	1	0	Southern	Southern
32	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	9	121	133	.476	-14.57	-11.74	0	1	0	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T
33	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro	9	120	135	.471	-14.58	-11.65	0	1	0	Fairleigh Dickinson, Marist	Fairleigh Dickinson

AP Poll Summary

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Conf	Pre	12/1	12/8	12/15	12/22	12/29	1/5	1/12	1/19	1/26	2/2	2/9	2/16	2/23	3/1	3/8	Final
Temple	A-10	12	12	11	8	6	6	6	4	3	6	5	1	1	1	1	1	1
Arizona	Pac-10	17	9	4	2	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	2
Purdue	Big Ten	2	11	13	12	10	11	10	8	5	2	6	2	2	2	2	2	3
Oklahoma	Big 8	19	18	16	14	12	10	8	3	11	10	7	4	4	4	4	4	4
Duke	ACC	15	13	10	10	9	9	9	7	9	5	4	8	6	5	9	8	5
Kentucky	SEC	5	2	1	1	2	2	1	5	4	9	10	10	9	12	8	6	6
North Carolina	ACC	3	1	5	4	4	4	4	2	2	3	8	6	5	9	6	9	7
Pittsburgh	Big East	4	4	2	3	3	3	2	6	6	11	9	5	8	6	7	5	8
Syracuse	Big East	1	3	8	9	7	7	7	9	14	17	12	11	12	10	12	13	9
Michigan	Big Ten	9	15	15	13	11	12	11	10	7	8	11	12	10	7	10	10	10
Bradley	MVC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	15	17	14	14	12	11
Nevada-Las Vegas	PCAA	-	19	17	15	15	15	13	13	8	4	2	7	11	8	5	7	12
Wyoming	WAC	10	10	7	6	5	5	5	12	17	-	-	18	19	16	17	14	13
North Carolina State	ACC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	16	14	-	16	11	14
Loyola Marymount	WCAC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	19	18	16	15
Illinois	Big Ten	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	20	13	13	17	-	-	-	-	19	16
Iowa	Big Ten	11	6	3	7	14	14	16	17	19	16	13	13	13	13	11	15	17
Xavier	MW Coll	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	20	18
Brigham Young	WAC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	7	3	8	7	11	15	17	19
Kansas State	Big 8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	-	-	-	-	20
School	Conf	Pre	12/1	12/8	12/15	12/22	12/29	1/5	1/12	1/19	1/26	2/2	2/9	2/16	2/23	3/1	3/8	Final
Auburn	SEC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DePaul	Ind	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Florida	SEC	14	7	12	11	8	8	15	-	-	14	19	-	-	-	-	-	-
Georgetown	Big East	16	17	14	18	19	18	14	11	15	15	14	-	18	-	-	-	-
Georgia Tech	ACC	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	13	18	-
Indiana	Big Ten	6	5	6	5	13	13	12	15	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-
Iowa State	Big 8	-	-	-	20	16	16	17	14	10	12	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kansas	Big 8	7	16	18	17	18	17	18	16	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Louisville	Metro	13	14	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Memphis	Metro	-	20	20	19	20	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Missouri	Big 8	8	8	9	16	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	15	-	-	-
New Mexico	WAC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Notre Dame	Ind	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Southern Mississippi	Metro	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	18	-	-	-
St. John's (NY)	Big East	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-
Texas-El Paso	WAC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vanderbilt	SEC	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	17	16	17	19	-	-
Villanova	Big East	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	20	-	-	-	-	-

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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