1980-81 College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: Indiana

Final Four: Indiana, LSU, UNC and Virginia

Consensus Player of the Year: Ralph Sampson

AP Preseason #1: Kentucky

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	174	118	.596	11.75	8.87	3	3	1	Indiana
2	Atlantic Coast Conference	8	156	89	.637	10.71	7.81	4	4	2	Virginia	North Carolina
3	Southeastern Conference	10	173	121	.588	10.38	8.39	3	4	1	Louisiana State	Mississippi
4	Big Eight Conference	8	137	96	.588	7.27	6.25	0	3	0	Missouri	Kansas
5	Pacific-10 Conference	10	156	116	.574	6.67	5.90	3	3	0	Oregon State
6	Western Athletic Conference	9	144	112	.563	6.48	5.37	3	3	0	Utah, Wyoming
7	Big East Conference	8	143	96	.598	5.07	2.72	0	3	0	Boston College	Syracuse
8	Missouri Valley Conference	9	151	109	.581	4.63	3.97	0	2	0	Wichita State	Creighton
9	Southwest Conference	9	135	122	.525	3.20	3.27	1	2	0	Arkansas	Houston
10	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	103	93	.526	2.74	3.09	1	1	0	Louisville	Louisville
11	Sun Belt Conference	7	112	90	.554	2.07	1.45	0	2	0	Alabama-Birmingham, South Alabama, Virginia Commonwealth	Virginia Commonwealth
12	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	8	119	104	.534	0.48	0.06	0	1	0	Fresno State	Fresno State
13	Southland Conference	6	103	72	.589	-0.30	-1.36	0	1	0	Lamar	Lamar
14	Eastern Athletic Association	8	124	110	.530	-0.82	-0.67	0	1	0	Duquesne, Rhode Island	Pittsburgh
15	Mid-American Conference	10	138	139	.498	-1.57	-0.74	0	1	0	Ball State, Bowling Green State, Northern Illinois, Toledo, Western Michigan	Ball State
16	West Coast Athletic Conference	8	118	103	.534	-2.09	-0.60	0	1	0	Pepperdine, San Francisco
17	Midwestern City Conference	7	83	111	.428	-2.34	0.46	0	0	0	Xavier	Oklahoma City
18	Independent	24	364	295	.552	-2.36	-2.47	2	2	0
19	Southern Conference	9	127	122	.510	-4.36	-2.96	0	1	0	Appalachian State, Chattanooga, Davidson	Chattanooga
20	Big Sky Conference	8	106	108	.495	-4.66	-2.39	0	1	0	Idaho	Idaho
21	East Coast Conference	12	177	157	.530	-6.00	-4.93	0	1	0	American (East), Lafayette (West), Rider (West)	Saint Joseph's
22	Ohio Valley Conference	8	105	109	.491	-6.49	-4.12	0	1	0	Western Kentucky	Western Kentucky
23	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference South	11	137	160	.461	-6.70	-3.59	0	1	0
24	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro	11	150	146	.507	-6.86	-4.52	0	1	0
25	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference North	9	127	123	.508	-7.07	-4.97	0	1	0	Northeastern	Northeastern
26	Ivy League	8	96	116	.453	-8.14	-5.52	0	1	0	Princeton
27	Trans America Athletic Conference	9	115	134	.462	-9.52	-7.36	0	1	0	Houston Baptist	Mercer
28	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	6	87	79	.524	-10.64	-9.26	0	1	0	North Carolina A&T	Howard
29	Southwest Athletic Conference	7	94	99	.487	-10.79	-8.89	0	1	0	Alcorn State, Southern	Southern

AP Poll Summary

AP Poll Summary Table
School	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	3/2	Final
DePaul	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	2	1
Louisville	3	8	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	17	12
Kentucky	1	2	2	2	2	5	4	3	6	7	6	11	10	9	7	8
Wichita State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	16	14	19	-	-
Lamar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-
South Alabama	-	-	-	-	16	17	15	13	11	16	20	18	-	-	-	-
Michigan	-	-	18	15	13	12	10	9	16	17	14	13	18	-	-	-
Indiana	5	5	7	11	15	15	-	-	-	-	17	20	16	16	14	9
Virginia	8	7	6	5	5	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	3	4	5
Arizona State	-	-	15	14	11	13	14	12	7	5	5	5	7	5	5	3
St. John's (NY)	17	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minnesota	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	20	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-
Georgetown	16	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tennessee	-	-	-	-	-	18	13	11	8	11	10	9	8	10	10	15
Wake Forest	-	-	13	12	7	8	6	5	3	6	8	7	5	12	11	11
Syracuse	19	18	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Maryland	4	4	4	9	9	9	8	10	10	14	13	19	20	17	20	18
BYU	18	19	19	18	20	19	17	15	18	15	16	15	17	15	18	16
Notre Dame	10	13	9	6	8	4	5	7	13	8	9	12	11	6	6	7
UConn	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	20	-	-	-	-	-	-
UCLA	6	3	3	3	3	7	7	8	12	10	12	8	6	13	13	10
Oregon State	7	6	5	4	4	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	2
Utah	-	-	-	-	19	20	18	16	14	9	7	6	9	7	9	14
Clemson	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	19	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Arkansas	20	11	17	19	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	15	20
LSU	12	15	11	10	10	10	9	6	5	4	4	4	4	2	3	4
Missouri	11	17	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Texas A&M	15	14	12	13	12	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Illinois	-	-	-	17	18	16	12	18	15	-	18	17	15	14	16	19
Iowa	14	12	16	16	14	14	11	14	9	13	15	14	12	8	8	13
Wyoming	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	17
Ohio State	9	9	8	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kansas	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-
UNC	13	10	10	8	6	6	16	17	17	12	11	10	13	11	12	6

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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