1970-71 Men's College Basketball Season Summary

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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

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

Coaches Polls

Coaches Polls Table
		Week Poll
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
School	Conf	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
UCLA	Pac-8	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
Marquette	Ind	5	5	5	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2
Penn	Ivy	7	10	7	6	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
Kansas	Big 8	11	9	8	8	11	7	8	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4
USC	Pac-8	10	7	6	5	4	3	2	2	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	5
South Carolina	ACC	2	2	2	2	2	2	6	8	9	7	9	9	7	6	7	6
Western Kentucky	OVC	8	8	11	11	5	6	5	7	10	8	7	7	8	7	8	7
Kentucky	SEC	4	3	4	7	7	8	9	17	13	10	8	8	12	10	9	8
Fordham	Ind						16	11	16	15	14	14	14	9	9	10	9
Ohio State	Big Ten														13	11	10
Jacksonville	Ind	3	4	3	3	8	9	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	8	6	11
BYU	WAC															13	11
UNC	ACC		20	14	16		18	15	20	18	15	11	11	13	11	14	13
Notre Dame	Ind	6	6	9	14		10	10	13	7	13	10	10				14
Long Beach State	PCAA	15	17	19													14
Drake	MVC	16	14	12	10	9	19									15	16
Villanova	Ind	13	12	10	13	10	12	13	10	17	19			17	18		17
Duquesne	Ind									18	18	13	13	11	12	12	18
Houston	Ind											17	17		14	15	18
Weber State	Big Sky							17	17						18	18	20
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
School	Conf	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
Hawaii	Ind													18	18	15
Louisville	MVC		15			14	14	19				20	20	13	15	18
La Salle	Mid-Atl								14	14	12	15	15	13	16	18
Utah State	Ind	9	13	13	17	18	17	18	11	11	16			18	17
Michigan	Big Ten										17	12	12	10
Tennessee	SEC		18		17	12			9	8	9	15	15	16
Arizona State	WAC													18
Illinois	Big Ten	20							19	16	11	17	17
Oregon	Pac-8				15	17	14	16	15	12		17	17
Nebraska	Big 8										19
Memphis	MVC									18
St. Bonaventure	Ind						11	12	12
Indiana	Big Ten	12	11	15	12	18	13	14
New Mexico	WAC		18		19	15	19	19
St. John's (NY)	Ind			20	9	13
Colorado State	WAC			17	19	15
LSU	SEC					18
New Mexico State	MVC			16
Florida State	Ind	14	16	18

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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