1979–80 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
1979–80 NCAA Division I men's basketball season | |
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Preseason AP No. 1 | Indiana Hoosiers[1] |
NCAA Tournament | 1980 |
Tournament dates | March 6 – 24, 1980 |
National Championship | Market Square Arena Indianapolis |
NCAA Champions | Louisville Cardinals |
Helms National Champions | Louisville Cardinals |
Other champions | Virginia Cavaliers (NIT) |
Player of the Year (Naismith, Wooden) | Mark Aguirre, DePaul (Naismith) Darrell Griffith, Louisville (Wooden) |
Player of the Year (Helms) | Darrell Griffith, Louisville |
← 1978–79 1980–81 → |
The 1979–80 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 17, 1979, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1980 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament championship game on March 24, 1980, at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. The Louisville Cardinals won their first NCAA national championship with a 59–54 victory over the UCLA Bruins.
Rule changes
- Officials were ordered to more strictly enforce foul rules already on the books, including bench decorum, hand-checking and charging fouls.
- Any mistaken attempt to call a time-out after a team runs out of time-outs results in a technical foul and two free throws for the opposing team. The rule would figure prominently in the outcome of the 1993 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Season headlines
- ESPN launched in November as the first all-sports television network.[2] It took advantage of college basketball's rapidly growing popularity to begin a highly profitable relationship with the NCAA which greatly expanded television coverage of college basketball in the United States.[2]
- The basketball-centered original Big East Conference began play.[2] Working closely with ESPN, it rapidly developed a reputation as a powerhouse of college basketball and a dominating force in the sport.[2]
- The NCAA tournament expanded from 40 to 48 teams.[3]
- ESPN televised 23 games of the 1980 NCAA tournament, becoming the first television network to broadcast the early rounds of an NCAA Tournament.[3]
- Louisville's "doctors of dunk" brought Denny Crum his first NCAA title with a 59–54 win over surprise finalist UCLA and coach Larry Brown. Wooden Award winner Darrell Griffith was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
- The first year of the Ralph Sampson era ended with a Virginia Cavaliers National Invitation Tournament championship – a 58–55 win over Minnesota. Sampson, a 7-foot-4-inch (224 cm) freshman center, was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
Season outlook
Pre-season polls
The top 20 from the AP Poll and UPI Coaches Poll during the pre-season.[4]
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Regular season
Conference winners and tournaments
Note: From 1975 to 1982, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), a loosely organized sports federation of Northeastern colleges and universities, organized Division I ECAC regional tournaments for those of its members that were independents in basketball. Each 1980 tournament winner received an automatic bid to the 1980 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in the same way that the tournament champions of conventional athletic conferences did. The ECAC North was a separate, conventional conference.[27]
Informal championships
Conference | Regular season winner | Conference player of the year | Conference tournament | Tournament venue (City) | Tournament winner |
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Philadelphia Big 5 | Saint Joseph's | None selected | No Tournament |
Statistical leaders
Points per game | Rebounds per game | Field-goal percentage | Free-throw percentage | |||||||||||
Player | School | PPG | Player | School | RPG | Player | School | FG% | Player | School | FT% | |||
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Tony Murphy | Southern | 32.1 | Larry Smith | Alcorn St. | 15.1 | Steve Johnson | Oregon St. | 71.0 | Brian Magid | George Washington | 92.9 | |||
Lewis Lloyd | Drake | 30.2 | Lewis Lloyd | Drake | 15.0 | Ron Charles | Michigan St. | 67.6 | Randy Nesbit | The Citadel | 92.5 | |||
Harry Kelly | TX Southern | 29.0 | Rickey Brown | Mississippi St. | 14.4 | Cherokee Rhone | Centenary | 66.6 | Kyle Macy | Kentucky | 91.2 | |||
Ken Page | New Mexico | 28.0 | Monti Davis | Tenn. St. | 13.3 | Roosevelt Bouie | Syracuse | 65.4 | Greg Manning | Maryland | 90.8 | |||
James Tillman | Eastern Kentucky | 27.2 | Gary Hooker | Murray St. | 12.3 | Murray Brown | Florida St. | 64.6 | Eddie White | Gonzaga | 89.2 |
Post-Season tournaments
NCAA tournament
Final Four
Played at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana
National semifinals | National finals | ||||||||
E5 | Iowa | 72 | |||||||
MW2 | Louisville | 80 | |||||||
MW2 | Louisville | 59 | |||||||
W8 | UCLA | 54 | |||||||
ME6 | Purdue | 62 | |||||||
W8 | UCLA | 67 |
- Third Place – Purdue 75, Iowa 58
National Invitation tournament
NIT semifinals and final
Played at Madison Square Garden in New York City
Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
UNLV | 71 | ||||||||
Virginia | 90 | ||||||||
Virginia | 58 | ||||||||
Minnesota | 55 | ||||||||
Minnesota | 65 | ||||||||
Illinois | 63 |
- Third Place – Illinois 84, UNLV 74
Awards
Consensus All-American teams
Player | Position | Class | Team |
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Mark Aguirre | F | Sophomore | DePaul |
Michael Brooks | F | Senior | La Salle |
Joe Barry Carroll | C | Senior | Purdue |
Darrell Griffith | G | Senior | Louisville |
Kyle Macy | G | Senior | Kentucky |
Player | Position | Class | Team |
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Mike Gminski | C | Senior | Duke |
Albert King | F | Junior | Maryland |
Mike O'Koren | F | Senior | North Carolina |
Kelvin Ransey | G | Senior | Ohio State |
Sam Worthen | G | Senior | Marquette |
Major player of the year awards
- Wooden Award: Darrell Griffith, Louisville
- Naismith Award: Mark Aguirre, DePaul
- Helms Player of the Year: Darrell Griffith, Louisville
- Associated Press Player of the Year: Mark Aguirre, DePaul
- UPI Player of the Year: Mark Aguirre, DePaul
- NABC Player of the Year: Michael Brooks, La Salle
- Oscar Robertson Trophy (USBWA): Mark Aguirre, DePaul
- Adolph Rupp Trophy: Mark Aguirre, DePaul
- Sporting News Player of the Year: Darrell Griffith, Louisville
Major coach of the year awards
- Associated Press Coach of the Year: Ray Meyer, DePaul
- Henry Iba Award (USBWA): Ray Meyer, DePaul
- NABC Coach of the Year: Lute Olson, Iowa
- UPI Coach of the Year: Ray Meyer, DePaul
- Sporting News Coach of the Year: Lute Olson, Iowa
Other major awards
- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (Best player under 6'0): Jim Sweeney, Boston College
- Robert V. Geasey Trophy (Top player in Philadelphia Big 5): Michael Brooks, La Salle
- NIT/Haggerty Award (Top player in New York City metro area): Jeff Ruland, Iona
Coaching changes
A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after the season ended.[28]
Team | Former Coach | Interim Coach | New Coach | Reason |
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Alabama | C. M. Newton | Wimp Sanderson | Newton resigned to take the same position at Southeastern Conference rival Vanderbilt | |
Akron | Ken Cunningham | Bob Rupert | ||
Army | Mike Krzyzewski | Pete Gaudet | ||
Baptist | David Reese | Phil Carter | ||
Boise State | Bus Connor | Dave Leach | ||
Cal State Fullerton | Bobby Dye | George McQuarn | ||
Colorado State | Jim Williams | Tony McAndrews | ||
Cornell | Ben Bluitt | Tom Miller | ||
Duke | Bill Foster | Mike Krzyzewski[29] | Duke hired the untested Krzyzewski after a 9–17 season at Army. | |
Fairleigh Dickinson | Al Lobalbo | Don Feeley | ||
Florida | Ed Visscher | Norm Sloan | ||
George Mason | John Linn | Joe Harrington | ||
Georgia Southern | J. B. Scearce | John Nelson | ||
Hofstra | Joe Harrington | Dick Berg | ||
Iona | Jim Valvano | Pat Kennedy | ||
Iowa State | Lynn Nance | Rick Samuels | Johnny Orr | Nance resigned mid-season after an 8–10 start. |
Lafayette | Roy Chipman | Will Rackley | ||
Lamar | Billy Tubbs | Pat Foster | ||
Loyola (IL) | Jerry Lyne | Gene Sullivan | ||
Loyola Marymount | Ron Jacobs | Ed Goorjian | ||
Michigan | Johnny Orr | Bill Frieder | ||
Navy | Bob Hamilton | Paul Evans | ||
Nebraska | Joe Cipriano | Moe Iba | Iba took the helm after Cipriano died of cancer in November 1980.[30] | |
Nevada-Reno | Jim Carey | Sonny Allen | ||
Niagara | Dan Raskin | Peter Lonergan | ||
NC State | Norm Sloan | Jim Valvano | Sloan resigned at NC State to take over at Florida, his alma mater, to rebuild the Gators as they moved into their new arena. | |
Northwestern Louisiana | Tynes Hildebrand | Wayne Yates | ||
Ohio | Dale Bandy | Danny Nee | ||
Oklahoma | Dave Bliss | Billy Tubbs | ||
Pittsburgh | Tim Grgurich | Roy Chipman | ||
Purdue | Lee Rose | Gene Keady | ||
San Francisco | Dan Belluomini | Pete Barry | ||
South Carolina | Frank McGuire | Bill Foster | Hall of Fame coach McGuire retired after 30 years of coaching. | |
South Carolina State | Tim Autry | Johnny Jones | ||
South Florida | Chip Conner | Gordon Gibbons | Lee Rose | Conner was fired in January[31] and later replaced with Rose – fresh off of a Final Four at Purdue. |
Southern Methodist | Sonny Allen | Dave Bliss | ||
Southern Utah | Stan Jack | Tom McCracken | ||
Tennessee Tech | Cliff Malpass | Tom Deaton | ||
Tulsa | Jim King | Bill Franey | Nolan Richardson | King resigned due to family concerns in February.[32] Tulsa hired reigning NJCAA championship coach Richardson. |
UC Irvine | Tim Tift | Bill Mulligan | ||
Valparaiso | Ken Rochlitz | Tom Smith | ||
Western Kentucky | Gene Keady | Clem Haskins | ||
Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Bob Gottlieb | Bob Voight |
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- ^ a b c d Hartzell, Larry, "The 1978-79 Season," Hardwood History, March 22, 2011 Accessed April 6 , 2021
- ^ a b "Burnsed, Brian, "A Brief History of Men's College Basketball," Champion, Fall 2018 Accessed April 6, 2021". Archived from the original on April 13, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ *ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. Random House. 2009. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- ^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
- ^ 2008–09 ACC Men's Basketball Media Guide – Year by Year section Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2010-08-01
- ^ 2008–09 Big East Men's Basketball Media Guide – Awards section Archived 2009-04-28 at the Wayback Machine, Big East Conference, retrieved 2010-08-01
- ^ 2008–09 Big 12 Men's Basketball Media Guide – Awards section, Big 12 Conference, retrieved 2010-08-01
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- ^ 2008–09 Horizon League Men's Basketball Record Book Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine, Horizon League, retrieved 2010-08-01
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