1982-83 College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: North Carolina State

Final Four: Georgia, Houston, Louisville and NC State

Consensus Player of the Year: Ralph Sampson

AP Preseason #1: Virginia

AP Final #1: Houston

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	Southeastern Conference	10	189	124	.604	12.62	9.74	2	4	1	Kentucky	Georgia
2	Atlantic Coast Conference	8	158	97	.620	10.30	7.05	3	4	1	North Carolina, Virginia	North Carolina State
3	Big Ten Conference	10	182	116	.611	10.08	7.14	1	5	0	Indiana
4	Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference	7	136	80	.630	9.15	5.68	2	2	1	Louisville	Louisville
5	Big Eight Conference	8	147	96	.605	7.90	5.80	2	3	0	Missouri	Oklahoma State
6	Big East Conference	9	163	113	.591	7.17	4.84	4	5	0	Boston College, St. John's (NY), Villanova	St. John's (NY)
7	Pacific-10 Conference	10	159	134	.543	5.42	4.87	1	2	0	UCLA
8	Pacific Coast Athletic Association	9	151	114	.570	4.67	3.90	1	2	0	Nevada-Las Vegas	Nevada-Las Vegas
9	Southwest Conference	9	153	121	.558	3.28	3.27	2	2	1	Houston	Houston
10	Sun Belt Conference	8	127	111	.534	2.08	1.82	0	2	0	Old Dominion, Virginia Commonwealth	Alabama-Birmingham
11	Western Athletic Conference	9	138	121	.533	1.82	2.24	0	1	0	Texas-El Paso, Utah
12	Missouri Valley Conference	10	149	138	.519	1.75	1.76	1	1	0	Wichita State	Illinois State
13	Atlantic 10 Conference	10	156	135	.536	1.12	1.15	0	2	0	Rutgers (East), St. Bonaventure (West), West Virginia (West)	West Virginia
14	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference South	6	101	72	.584	0.05	-1.14	0	1	0	William & Mary	James Madison
15	Big Sky Conference	8	122	103	.542	-0.03	1.06	0	1	0	Nevada, Weber State	Weber State
16	Southland Conference	7	113	90	.557	-0.17	-1.39	0	1	0	Lamar	Lamar
17	West Coast Athletic Conference	7	98	93	.513	-1.14	0.36	0	1	0	Pepperdine
18	Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference	6	102	71	.590	-2.23	-2.90	0	0	0	Iona	Fordham
19	Independent	19	278	260	.517	-2.95	-2.46	0	2	0
20	Mid-American Conference	10	144	142	.503	-3.56	-1.91	0	1	0	Bowling Green State	Ohio
21	Southern Conference	9	127	130	.494	-3.76	-1.64	1	1	0	Chattanooga	Chattanooga
22	Ohio Valley Conference	8	113	111	.504	-4.09	-3.19	0	1	0	Murray State	Morehead State
23	Midwestern City Conference	8	104	123	.458	-5.29	-2.54	0	1	0	Loyola (IL)	Xavier
24	Trans America Athletic Conference	9	131	126	.510	-5.88	-4.17	0	1	0	Little Rock	Georgia Southern
25	Ivy League	8	97	114	.460	-6.74	-4.65	0	1	0	Princeton
26	East Coast Conference	10	142	140	.504	-7.04	-6.06	0	1	0	American (East), Hofstra (East), La Salle (East), Rider (West)	La Salle
27	Mid-Continent Conference	8	105	128	.451	-8.52	-5.78	0	0	0	Western Illinois
28	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference North	9	114	142	.445	-8.64	-5.75	0	1	0	Boston University, New Hampshire	Boston University
29	Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro	10	132	155	.460	-10.86	-7.44	0	1	0	Long Island University (North), Robert Morris (South)	Robert Morris
30	Southwest Athletic Conference	8	109	122	.472	-11.02	-8.81	0	1	0	Texas Southern	Alcorn State
31	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	7	84	111	.431	-15.95	-11.06	0	1	0	Howard	North Carolina A&T

AP Poll Summary

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Pre	11/29	12/6	12/13	12/20	12/27	1/3	1/10	1/17	1/24	1/31	2/7	2/14	2/21	2/28	3/7	Final
Washington State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-
Louisville	8	7	13	12	14	13	13	9	9	8	12	11	9	5	3	3	2
Kentucky	4	3	2	2	2	3	3	6	11	10	15	13	11	10	7	10	12
Marquette	18	17	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wichita State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	15	12	12	11	14
Alabama	12	13	11	10	8	6	5	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Purdue	-	-	20	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	20	-	-
Indiana	9	8	6	5	5	1	1	4	2	2	6	4	2	4	11	7	5
Virginia	1	1	1	1	1	4	4	2	7	6	3	3	5	3	2	2	4
Auburn	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Houston	14	11	9	14	19	18	19	16	14	9	8	6	4	2	1	1	1
Illinois State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	16	17	-	-	-	-	-
St. John's (NY)	19	12	12	9	7	7	7	3	8	7	5	7	6	9	10	8	3
Georgia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	18
Villanova	5	4	10	19	18	16	14	15	13	11	11	12	8	7	4	13	13
Minnesota	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	16	16	17	19	-	-	-	-	-
Georgetown	2	2	3	5	11	10	17	-	19	15	14	14	14	18	16	15	20
Tennessee	13	14	14	11	9	8	12	18	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-
Wake Forest	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Syracuse	-	-	-	16	13	14	9	13	15	18	20	15	17	13	18	20	-
Memphis	6	5	4	3	4	2	2	1	6	5	4	9	13	14	17	17	17
Boston College	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	19	15	14	11
West Virginia	-	-	-	20	16	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UCLA	7	6	5	4	3	5	6	5	1	1	7	5	10	8	6	4	7
Tulsa	-	-	-	-	20	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Oregon State	10	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UNLV	20	19	18	18	17	15	11	8	5	4	2	2	1	1	9	9	6
Arkansas	17	16	15	13	12	11	10	7	4	12	9	8	7	6	5	6	9
Oklahoma State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	19
Virginia Tech	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NC State	16	18	18	15	15	17	16	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16
Chattanooga	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	18	15
Missouri	15	9	8	8	6	12	15	14	12	13	10	10	12	15	13	12	10
Iowa	11	10	7	7	10	9	8	12	10	14	13	20	16	17	-	-	-
Ohio State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	20	15	14	16	-
Oklahoma	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	19	-
UNC	3	15	17	17	-	-	18	11	3	3	1	1	3	11	8	5	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.

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