1976-77 Men's College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: Marquette

Final Four: Charlotte, Marquette, UNLV and UNC

Consensus Player of the Year: Marques Johnson

AP Preseason #1: Michigan

AP Final #1: Michigan

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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	7	134	68	.663	13.23	7.05	0	2	1	North Carolina	North Carolina
2	Southeastern Conference	10	162	113	.589	9.78	7.24	1	2	0	Kentucky, Tennessee
3	Western Athletic Conference	8	130	89	.594	6.60	4.50	0	2	0	Utah
4	Sun Belt Conference	6	92	80	.535	-3.53	-2.54	1	1	1	Charlotte	Charlotte
5	Southwest Conference	9	133	123	.520	-1.09	0.10	1	1	0	Arkansas	Arkansas
6	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	117	78	.600	5.76	3.22	0	2	0	Louisville	Cincinnati
7	Big Ten Conference	10	150	127	.542	8.10	6.70	0	2	0	Michigan
8	Ohio Valley Conference	8	113	98	.536	-5.68	-3.54	0	1	0	Austin Peay	Middle Tennessee
9	Pacific-8 Conference	8	124	97	.561	5.27	3.59	0	1	0	UCLA
10	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	7	94	96	.495	-0.27	0.88	0	1	0	Long Beach State, San Diego State	Long Beach State
11	Big Eight Conference	8	123	103	.544	5.80	5.24	0	1	0	Kansas State	Kansas State
12	Eastern Collegiate Basketball League	8	125	105	.543	2.41	1.62	0	1	0	Rutgers (East), Penn State (West), West Virginia (West)	Duquesne
13	Missouri Valley Conference	9	145	106	.578	1.91	1.24	0	1	0	New Mexico State, Southern Illinois	Southern Illinois
14	East Coast Conference	12	168	150	.528	-6.02	-5.20	0	1	0	Hofstra (East), Temple (East), Lafayette (West)	Hofstra
15	Southern Conference	9	116	134	.464	-5.04	-1.53	0	1	0	Furman, Virginia Military Institute	Virginia Military Institute
16	Independent	70	1002	876	.534	-3.96	-2.77	0	7	2
17	Mid-American Conference	10	132	135	.494	-0.29	0.55	0	1	0	Central Michigan
18	West Coast Athletic Conference	8	120	97	.553	-2.36	-0.41	0	1	0	San Francisco
19	Southland Conference	6	83	82	.503	-6.28	-5.12	0	0	0	Louisiana
20	Big Sky Conference	8	109	106	.507	-5.70	-2.23	0	1	0	Idaho State	Idaho State
21	Ivy League	8	88	119	.425	-7.10	-4.13	0	1	0	Princeton
22	New Jersey-New York 7 Conference	4	58	55	.513	0.56	0.79	0	1	0	Seton Hall
23	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	4	36	69	.343	-24.25	-16.56	0	0	0	South Carolina State	Morgan State

AP Polls

Coaches Polls

Coaches Polls Table
		Week Poll
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
School	Conf	Pre	12/7	12/14	12/21	12/28	1/4	1/11	1/18	1/25	2/1	2/8	2/15	2/22	3/1	Final
Michigan	Big Ten	2	1	1	1	1	3	6	5	2	5	4	4	3	3	1
San Francisco	WCAC	12	8	5	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
UNC	ACC	3	9	6	9	6	7	5	2	3	12	12	11	8	5	3
UCLA	Pac-8	4	3	10	8	8	6	12	10	9	2	2	3	6	4	4
Kentucky	SEC	6	5	3	7	7	2	3	7	7	6	5	2	2	2	5
UNLV	Ind	7	4	11	11	9	9	7	6	5	3	8	7	4	6	6
Arkansas	SWC					17		16	15	16	13	12	10	7	7	7
Tennessee	SEC	13	13					17	11	6	10	10	13	5	10	8
Syracuse	Ind			15	17	18						19	18	13	11	9
Utah	WAC				15		20		20		20	17		14		10
Kansas State	Big 8															11
Cincinnati	Metro	10	10	9	6	5	4	2	3	12	11	11	12	17	20	12
Louisville	Metro	8	16		13	15	16	14	16	10	7	3	5	10	9	13
Marquette	Ind	1	2	2	5	14	11	9	8	8	4	7	6			14
Providence	Ind						14	18	17	15	17	16	16	12	8	15
Indiana State	MVC									19					16	16
Minnesota	Big Ten			18	16	12	12	11	13	14	16	14	15	16	13	17
Alabama	SEC		6	7	4	4	5	4	4	4	9	9	8	11	12	18
Detroit Mercy	Ind												19	18	17	19
Purdue	Big Ten	20		17			18	13	12	17	14					20
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
School	Conf	Pre	12/7	12/14	12/21	12/28	1/4	1/11	1/18	1/25	2/1	2/8	2/15	2/22	3/1	Final
Wake Forest	ACC		14	12	12	10	13	8	9	11	8	6	9	9	14
Arizona	WAC	9	7	8	14	13	10	10	14	13	15	14	14		15
Houston	SWC													19	18
Oral Roberts	Ind													19	19
Creighton	MVC													15
Notre Dame	Ind		11	4	2	2	8						17
Clemson	ACC		20	14	10	11	15				18	20	20
Missouri	Big 8	15			19		17			20	19	18
Oregon	Pac-8		19	20	18	20		15		18
Maryland	ACC	11	15	13		16	18		18
Memphis	Metro								19
St. John's (NY)	NJNY7							19
Holy Cross	Ind							19
Iowa	Big Ten					19
Georgetown	Ind	17			20
Southern Illinois	MVC		18	16
Indiana	Big Ten	5	12	19
Washington	Pac-8		17