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National Champion: Cincinnati
Final Four: Cincinnati, Ohio State, UCLA and Wake Forest
Consensus Player of the Year: Jerry Lucas
AP Preseason #1: Ohio State ▪ AP Final #1: Ohio State
School | Conf | Pre | 12/19 | 12/26 | 1/2 | 1/9 | 1/16 | 1/23 | 1/30 | 2/6 | 2/13 | 2/20 | 2/27 | 3/6 | Final |
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Ohio State | Big Ten | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Cincinnati | MVC | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Kentucky | SEC | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ||
Mississippi State | SEC | 9 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | |||
Bradley | MVC | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | |||||
Kansas State | Big 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Utah | MSAC | 10 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||
Bowling Green State | MAC | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |||
Colorado | Big 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |||||||||||
Duke | ACC | 7 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
School | Conf | Pre | 12/19 | 12/26 | 1/2 | 1/9 | 1/16 | 1/23 | 1/30 | 2/6 | 2/13 | 2/20 | 2/27 | 3/6 | Final |
Arizona State | BIAA | 10 | |||||||||||||
Duquesne | Ind | 7 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | |||||
Loyola (IL) | Ind | 10 | |||||||||||||
Oregon State | Ind | 10 | 6 | 10 | |||||||||||
Providence | Ind | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||
Purdue | Big Ten | 6 | 8 | 9 | |||||||||||
Seattle | Ind | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||||
Southern California | AAWU | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
St. Bonaventure | Ind | 9 | |||||||||||||
St. John's (NY) | Metro NY | 9 | |||||||||||||
Villanova | Ind | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
Wake Forest | ACC | 3 | |||||||||||||
West Virginia | Southern | 5 | 7 | ||||||||||||
Wichita State | MVC | 8 |
AP Player of the Year: | Jerry Lucas (Ohio State) |
UPI Player of the Year: | Jerry Lucas (Ohio State) |
USBWA Player of the Year: | Jerry Lucas (Ohio State) |
Sporting News Player of the Year: | Jerry Lucas (Ohio State) |
Helms Foundation Player of the Year: | Paul Hogue (Cincinnati) |
NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player: | Paul Hogue (Cincinnati) |
NIT Most Valuable Player: | Bill Chmielewski (Dayton) |
1st Team
Billy McGill (Utah) Chet Walker (Bradley) Jerry Lucas (Ohio State) Len Chappell (Wake Forest) Terry Dischinger (Purdue) |
2nd Team
Art Heyman (Duke) Cotton Nash (Kentucky) Jack Foley (Holy Cross) John Havlicek (Ohio State) John Rudometkin (Southern California) Rod Thorn (West Virginia) |