1970-71 College Basketball Season Summary

National Champion: UCLA

Final Four: Kansas, UCLA, Villanova and Western Kentucky

Consensus Player of the Year: Austin Carr

AP Preseason #1: UCLA

AP Final #1: UCLA

Conference Summary

Conference Summary Table
Rk	Conference	Schls	W	L	W-L%	SRS	SOS	AP	NCAA	FF	Regular Season Champ	Tournament Champ
1	Pacific-8 Conference	8	131	82	.615	8.41	5.01	2	1	1	UCLA
2	Atlantic Coast Conference	8	136	86	.613	7.65	5.28	2	1	0	North Carolina	South Carolina
3	Western Athletic Conference	8	113	95	.543	6.00	4.99	1	1	0	Brigham Young
4	Big Ten Conference	10	131	113	.537	5.65	4.96	1	1	0	Ohio State
5	Missouri Valley Conference	10	164	104	.612	5.57	3.28	1	2	0	Drake, Louisville, Saint Louis
6	Big Eight Conference	8	118	95	.554	3.52	3.07	1	1	1	Kansas
7	Southeastern Conference	10	134	128	.511	1.91	2.42	2	1	0	Kentucky
8	Mid-American Conference	6	84	62	.575	0.52	0.95	0	1	0	Miami (OH)
9	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	6	88	71	.553	-0.41	1.10	1	1	0	Cal State Long Beach
10	Independent	62	879	714	.552	-1.22	-0.61	7	8	1
11	Southwest Conference	8	105	102	.507	-3.08	-1.99	0	1	0	Texas Christian
12	Big Sky Conference	6	77	75	.507	-4.12	-1.98	0	1	0	Weber State
13	Ivy League	8	102	103	.498	-4.18	-2.63	1	1	0	Pennsylvania
14	West Coast Athletic Conference	8	99	109	.476	-5.27	-3.12	0	1	0	Pacific
15	Ohio Valley Conference	8	107	94	.532	-5.31	-3.72	1	1	1	Western Kentucky
16	Middle Atlantic Conference	11	152	128	.543	-9.04	-6.13	0	1	0	Saint Joseph's (East), Lafayette (West)
17	Southland Conference	5	54	65	.454	-10.86	-7.40	0	0	0	Arkansas State
18	Southern Conference	7	75	109	.408	-12.73	-7.64	0	1	0	Davidson	Furman
19	Yankee Conference	6	71	78	.477	-14.58	-10.23	0	0	0	Massachusetts

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Pre	12/8	12/15	12/22	12/29	1/5	1/12	1/19	1/26	2/2	2/9	2/16	2/23	3/2	3/9	Final
Duke	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-
Long Beach State	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	17	17	16
Memphis	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Louisville	-	20	-	-	17	13	16	-	-	-	-	19	15	-	-	-
Kentucky	3	5	3	7	8	11	10	12	11	8	8	12	10	8	8	8
Jacksonville	4	3	5	4	9	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	9	9	11
Miami (OH)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-
Marquette	6	4	4	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
UCLA	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
La Salle	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	14	10	13	11	14	19	-	-
Oregon State	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Purdue	-	-	-	16	20	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Mexico State	15	15	17	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Western Kentucky	9	13	11	10	5	6	5	7	12	9	7	9	9	7	7	7
Florida State	-	-	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
South Carolina	2	2	2	2	2	2	6	11	10	7	10	7	7	6	6	6
Utah State	12	16	15	-	19	15	17	12	9	13	19	15	16	20	16	-
USC	7	9	8	6	4	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	5
Michigan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	16	16	12	-	-	-
Oregon	-	18	16	17	16	-	-	16	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Indiana	16	11	13	11	14	12	11	18	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-
Duquesne	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	14	12	10	8	11	11	15
Virginia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NC State	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
LSU	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Illinois	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	15	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ohio State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	18	13	12	10
Houston	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	15	-	-	15	18	14
Kansas	14	11	12	8	12	8	8	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4
St. John's (NY)	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UNC	-	-	20	17	-	20	15	20	20	16	11	8	13	12	13	13
Fordham	-	-	-	-	-	18	14	17	-	-	20	18	11	10	10	9
Penn	11	8	6	5	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	3
Villanova	8	10	10	13	11	14	13	14	16	17	18	-	-	-	-	19
Murray State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	19	17	17	-	-	-	-
Tennessee	-	17	14	12	10	17	18	8	8	11	14	13	17	14	15	17
BYU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20
Notre Dame	5	6	7	14	15	9	9	9	7	12	9	14	19	16	14	12
St. Bonaventure	20	19	19	15	13	10	12	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Army	-	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Drake	10	7	9	9	7	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18

Statistical coverage for seasons prior to 1992-93 is mostly complete, however there are a small number of unknown player records.

1970-71 Season Pages