1984-85 College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: Villanova

Final Four: Georgetown, Memphis, St. John's (NY) and Villanova

Consensus Player of the Year: Patrick Ewing

AP Preseason #1: Georgetown

AP Final #1: Georgetown

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	173	90	.658	13.13	7.36	4	5	0	Georgia Tech, North Carolina, North Carolina State	Georgia Tech
2	Big Ten Conference	10	184	118	.609	11.86	8.66	2	6	0	Michigan
3	Southeastern Conference	10	179	130	.579	9.86	7.82	2	5	0	Louisiana State	Auburn
4	Big East Conference	9	184	102	.643	9.39	5.98	3	6	3	St. John's (NY)	Georgetown
5	Big Eight Conference	8	149	102	.594	7.27	5.28	2	3	0	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
6	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	8	138	108	.561	7.24	5.59	1	2	1	Memphis	Memphis
7	Pacific-10 Conference	10	169	130	.565	5.94	4.89	0	4	0	Southern California, Washington
8	Sun Belt Conference	8	137	103	.571	5.93	3.42	1	3	0	Virginia Commonwealth	Virginia Commonwealth
9	Southwest Conference	9	156	114	.578	5.64	4.25	1	3	0	Texas Tech	Texas Tech
10	Missouri Valley Conference	9	151	115	.568	4.52	3.95	1	3	0	Tulsa	Wichita State
11	Midwestern City Conference	8	125	107	.539	1.87	2.52	1	1	0	Loyola (IL)	Loyola (IL)
12	Western Athletic Conference	9	145	125	.537	1.47	0.68	0	2	0	Texas-El Paso	San Diego State
13	Mid-American Conference	10	147	138	.516	0.36	0.87	0	2	0	Ohio	Ohio
14	Big Sky Conference	8	130	109	.544	-0.46	-1.04	0	1	0	Nevada	Nevada
15	West Coast Athletic Conference	7	114	84	.576	-0.52	-0.69	0	1	0	Pepperdine
16	Atlantic 10 Conference	10	149	142	.512	-0.76	-0.17	0	1	0	West Virginia	Temple
17	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	10	146	145	.502	-1.81	-0.33	1	1	0	Nevada-Las Vegas	Nevada-Las Vegas
18	Southland Conference	7	115	90	.561	-1.82	-1.83	1	1	0	Louisiana Tech	Louisiana Tech
19	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference South	8	123	110	.528	-2.32	-2.06	0	1	0	Navy, Richmond	Navy
20	Southern Conference	9	133	132	.502	-3.96	-2.41	0	1	0	Chattanooga	Marshall
21	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	8	119	113	.513	-4.13	-3.48	0	1	0	Iona	Iona
22	Ohio Valley Conference	8	117	109	.518	-4.18	-2.45	0	1	0	Tennessee Tech	Middle Tennessee
23	Mid-Continent Conference	8	110	119	.480	-6.41	-4.08	0	0	0	Cleveland State	Eastern Illinois
24	Independent	22	291	332	.467	-6.54	-3.53	0	3	0
25	Trans America Athletic Conference	8	122	111	.524	-7.20	-6.33	0	1	0	Georgia Southern	Mercer
26	Southwest Athletic Conference	8	108	120	.474	-7.53	-5.96	0	1	0	Alcorn State	Southern
27	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference North	10	134	153	.467	-7.84	-5.48	0	1	0	Canisius, Northeastern	Northeastern
28	Ivy League	8	94	114	.452	-8.69	-6.12	0	1	0	Pennsylvania
29	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro	8	105	125	.457	-9.59	-6.96	0	1	0	Marist	Fairleigh Dickinson
30	Gulf Star Conference	4	44	64	.407	-9.87	-5.51	0	0	0	Southeastern Louisiana
31	East Coast Conference	8	103	127	.448	-10.57	-7.05	0	1	0	Bucknell	Lehigh
32	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	7	71	123	.366	-17.85	-9.98	0	1	0	North Carolina A&T	North Carolina A&T

AP Poll Summary

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Pre	11/27	12/4	12/11	12/18	12/25	1/1	1/8	1/15	1/22	1/29	2/5	2/12	2/19	2/26	3/5	Final
DePaul	3	2	2	2	5	9	10	13	10	7	13	18	-	-	-	-	-
Louisville	17	6	6	14	12	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kentucky	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Louisiana Tech	-	-	-	-	20	19	18	14	12	12	15	14	12	10	7	8	8
SMU	10	9	8	7	6	4	7	4	3	2	4	4	9	9	13	20	-
Michigan	-	-	-	20	18	13	16	-	-	18	10	8	3	3	3	3	2
Indiana	4	12	11	16	16	15	12	11	8	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
St. John's (NY)	7	3	3	4	8	5	4	3	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	3
Georgia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	14	17	19
Villanova	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	18	14	18	19	16	-	-	-	-
Georgetown	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1
Syracuse	12	14	12	10	9	6	5	7	7	11	9	6	8	7	12	13	15
Maryland	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	17	20	20	-	-	-	-
Georgia Tech	20	18	15	12	13	10	8	9	17	16	8	10	6	8	10	9	6
Duke	6	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	5	6	5	7	6	5	7	10
Memphis	8	5	5	5	3	3	3	6	5	4	3	3	5	4	4	5	5
Boston College	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	15	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-
Tulsa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	17	12	17	15	12	15	15	18
Loyola (IL)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	16	14
Oregon State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	14	10	14	16	18	19	-	-	-
Washington	9	8	9	8	7	11	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UNLV	11	20	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	16	11	14	11	9	11	9
Arkansas	16	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Virginia Tech	15	15	14	11	17	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NC State	13	11	10	9	14	14	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	18	16
LSU	14	16	13	19	19	18	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	20
Illinois	2	7	7	6	4	8	6	15	11	6	5	9	17	16	18	14	12
Iowa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	12	11	14	-	-	-
Arizona	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-
Kansas	19	20	19	18	15	12	11	10	9	15	19	13	10	15	11	10	13
Oklahoma	5	10	17	15	11	17	13	8	13	9	7	7	4	5	6	4	4
UNC	-	19	16	13	10	7	9	5	6	8	11	15	13	13	8	6	7
Alabama-Birmingham	-	13	18	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	19	-	-	-	-
Texas Tech	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17
VCU	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	18	16	19	-	-	-	17	17	12	11
Michigan State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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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