1986-87 College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: Indiana

Final Four: Indiana, UNLV, Providence and Syracuse

Consensus Player of the Year: David Robinson

AP Preseason #1: North Carolina

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	161	88	.647	13.11	7.02	3	6	0	North Carolina	North Carolina State
2	Southeastern Conference	10	183	133	.579	12.05	9.32	1	6	0	Alabama	Alabama
3	Big Ten Conference	10	189	121	.610	11.38	8.55	4	6	1	Indiana, Purdue
4	Big East Conference	9	181	105	.633	10.45	6.53	3	5	2	Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Syracuse	Georgetown
5	Big Eight Conference	8	144	108	.571	7.94	6.89	2	4	0	Missouri	Missouri
6	Pacific-10 Conference	10	163	141	.536	6.48	5.53	1	2	0	UCLA	UCLA
7	Southwest Conference	9	149	123	.548	6.22	4.80	1	3	0	Texas Christian	Texas A&M
8	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	123	92	.572	5.83	4.26	0	0	0	Louisville	Memphis
9	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	10	161	142	.531	5.05	4.92	1	1	1	Nevada-Las Vegas	Nevada-Las Vegas
10	Sun Belt Conference	8	132	115	.534	3.49	2.59	0	2	0	Western Kentucky	Alabama-Birmingham
11	Missouri Valley Conference	8	127	114	.527	3.45	3.33	0	2	0	Tulsa	Wichita State
12	Western Athletic Conference	9	149	128	.538	2.71	2.54	0	3	0	Texas-El Paso	Wyoming
13	Atlantic 10 Conference	10	152	142	.517	1.31	1.74	1	2	0	Temple	Temple
14	West Coast Athletic Conference	8	131	103	.560	0.84	0.71	0	2	0	San Diego	Santa Clara
15	Big Sky Conference	8	125	111	.530	-0.59	-0.36	0	1	0	Montana State	Idaho State
16	Southland Conference	7	105	100	.512	-0.73	-0.12	0	1	0	Louisiana Tech	Louisiana Tech
17	Midwestern Collegiate Conference	7	106	102	.510	-0.88	-0.07	0	1	0	Evansville, Loyola (IL)	Xavier
18	Colonial Athletic Association	8	124	107	.537	-1.21	-1.04	0	1	0	Navy	Navy
19	Mid-American Conference	9	130	126	.508	-2.47	-1.36	0	1	0	Central Michigan	Central Michigan
20	Ohio Valley Conference	9	142	117	.548	-3.02	-2.22	0	2	0	Middle Tennessee	Austin Peay
21	Mid-Continent Conference	8	131	109	.546	-3.12	-2.34	0	1	0	Missouri State	Missouri State
22	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	8	115	122	.485	-4.37	-2.98	0	1	0	Saint Peter's	Fairfield
23	Independent	17	237	250	.487	-4.85	-2.67	3	3	0
24	Ivy League	8	103	106	.493	-5.80	-4.01	0	1	0	Pennsylvania
25	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference North	10	136	155	.467	-6.24	-4.29	0	1	0	Northeastern	Northeastern
26	Southern Conference	9	131	129	.504	-7.18	-4.30	0	1	0	Marshall	Marshall
27	Trans America Athletic Conference	10	145	148	.495	-7.40	-5.30	0	1	0	Little Rock	Georgia Southern
28	East Coast Conference	8	114	117	.494	-9.39	-6.79	0	1	0	Bucknell	Bucknell
29	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro	9	126	126	.500	-10.00	-8.29	0	1	0	Marist	Marist
30	Gulf Star Conference	6	85	87	.494	-10.48	-7.86	0	0	0	Stephen F. Austin
31	Big South Conference	8	102	124	.451	-11.29	-7.37	0	0	0	Charleston Southern	Charleston Southern
32	Southwest Athletic Conference	8	99	125	.442	-12.55	-8.62	0	1	0	Grambling	Southern
33	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	9	106	147	.419	-16.36	-12.17	0	1	0	Howard	North Carolina A&T

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	-	-	-	19	17	15	7	7	6	8	5	5	4	4	5	5
Louisville	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kentucky	11	13	19	18	18	11	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Alabama	13	8	18	-	-	-	-	15	13	9	9	14	12	10	9	9
Purdue	4	4	3	2	2	2	6	6	5	4	7	7	6	6	3	7
Pitt	16	12	17	14	14	17	14	18	16	17	13	10	8	9	11	12
Western Kentucky	-	14	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Indiana	3	3	2	8	8	6	4	4	3	4	2	2	2	3	4	3
Auburn	12	7	7	6	5	5	13	10	17	18	20	-	-	-	-	-
Northeastern	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Navy	9	10	10	11	12	9	15	19	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
St. John's (NY)	-	-	-	15	15	10	10	13	14	15	19	16	20	-	-	-
New Orleans	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	16	16
Georgetown	18	16	13	10	10	8	16	9	15	11	10	13	11	8	7	4
Syracuse	15	17	12	9	7	7	5	5	7	6	11	9	9	11	10	10
Georgia Tech	6	15	16	16	19	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Notre Dame	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	18
Duke	-	-	-	-	-	20	17	14	12	13	16	15	17	17	14	17
Cleveland State	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UCLA	-	-	11	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	15
UNLV	5	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
Clemson	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	12	10	14	12	12	10	13	13	13
Arkansas	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NC State	17	18	15	12	11	19	18	17	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Missouri	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	14
Illinois	14	9	6	5	9	16	12	8	9	12	14	11	14	14	12	11
Iowa	10	5	4	3	3	3	2	2	1	2	4	4	7	7	6	6
Arizona	19	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kansas	8	6	14	13	13	12	19	20	-	20	18	17	15	16	-	20
Oklahoma	7	11	9	7	6	13	11	16	11	10	8	8	13	12	17	-
UNC	1	1	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	1	3	3	3	2	2	2
Florida	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	19	-	19	18	18	-	-
Providence	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	20	19	20	-	-
TCU	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	16	15	18	16	15	15	19
Temple	-	-	-	20	16	14	8	11	8	7	6	6	5	5	8	8

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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