1961–62 NCAA University Division Men's Basketball Rankings

	1961–62 NCAA University Division Men's Basketball Rankings The 1961–62 NCAA men's basketball rankings was made up of two human polls, the AP Poll The Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broadca ... and the Coaches Poll. Legend AP Poll All AP polls for the 1961–62 season included only 10 ranked teams. UPI Poll The initial UPI poll for this season included only 10 ranked teams, while UPI polls for the remainder of the season included 20 ranked teams. References {{DEFAULTSORT:1961-62 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings 1961-62 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings College men's basketball rankings in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1961–62 Ohio State Buckeyes Men's Basketball Team The 1961–62 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represented Ohio State University. The team's head coach was Fred Taylor (basketball, born 1924), Fred Taylor. Roster Schedule , - !colspan=9 style=, Non-Conference Regular season , - !colspan=9 style=, Big Ten Regular season , - !colspan=9 style=, NCAA Tournament Rankings * Awards and honors * John Havlicek, First Team All-Big Ten * Jerry Lucas, All-America selection * Jerry Lucas, Chicago Tribune Silver Basketball * Jerry Lucas, First Team All-Big Ten * Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson Trophy, USBWA College Player of the Year Team players drafted into the NBA References {{DEFAULTSORT:1961-62 Ohio State Buckeyes Men's Basketball Team Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball seasons NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Final Four seasons 1961–62 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Ohio State Buckeyes 1962 NCAA University Division basketball tournament partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1961–62 Cincinnati Bearcats Men's Basketball Team The 1961–62 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati won the Missouri Valley Conference regular season title and defended its national championship with a 71–59 defeat of top-ranked Ohio State before 18,469 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The head coach was Ed Jucker. Roster Schedule , - !colspan=12 style=, Regular Season , - !colspan=12 style=, Rankings Awards and honors All-American USBWA First Team: Paul Hogue NABC, NEA Second Team: Paul Hogue AP, NEA Third Team: Paul Hogue National honors Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year: Paul Hogue Missouri Valley Conference honors All-MVC Paul Hogue * Tom Thacker * Ron Bonham Source NBA draft In the spring of 1962, Cleveland Pipers owner George Steinbrenner signed Jerry Lucas to a player-management contract worth forty thousand dollars. With the Lucas signing, Steinbrenner had a secret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	AP Poll The Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the nation. Each voter provides their own ranking of the top 25 teams, and the individual rankings are then combined to produce the national ranking by giving a team 25 points for a first place vote, 24 for a second place vote, and so on down to 1 point for a twenty-fifth place vote. Ballots of the voting members in the AP poll are made public. College football The football poll is released Sundays at 2 pm Eastern time during the season, unless ranked teams have not finished their games. History The AP college football poll's origins go back to the 1930s. The news media began running their own polls of sports writers to determine, by popular opinion, the best college football teams in the country. One of the earliest su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Coaches Poll The Coaches Poll is a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football, Division I college basketball, and Division I college baseball teams. The football version of the poll has been known officially as the Amway Coaches Poll since 2014. The football rankings are compiled by the Amway Board of Coaches which is made up of 62 head coaches at Division I FBS institutions. All coaches are members of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). The basketball rankings are compiled by the USA Today Sports Board of Coaches which is made up of 32 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). The baseball rankings are compiled by the USA Today Sports Board of Coaches which is made up of 31 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA). The football Coaches Poll was an element of the Bowl Championship Series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Random House Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. History Random House was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they acquired the Modern Library imprint from publisher Horace Liveright, which reprints classic works of literature. Cerf is quoted as saying, "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random," which suggested the name Random House. In 1934 they published the first authorized edition of James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' in the Anglophone world. ''Ulysses'' transformed Random House into a formidable publisher over the next two decades. In 1936, it absorbed the firm of Smith and Haas—Robert Haas became the third partner until retiring and selling his share back to Cerf and Klopfer in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1961–62 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Men's Basketball Team The 1961–62 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represented Wake Forest University. Roster Schedule and results , - !colspan=9 style=, Regular Season , - !colspan=9 style=, ACC Tournament , - !colspan=9 style=, NCAA Tournament NCAA basketball tournament East Wake Forest 92, Yale 82 Wake Forest 96, St. Joseph’s, Pennsylvania 85 Wake Forest 79, Villanova 69 Final Four *Ohio State 84, Wake Forest 68 Third-place game *Wake Forest 82, UCLA 80 Rankings Awards and honors Len Chappell – ACC Player of the Year (2x) Team players drafted into the NBA Other notable players * Billy Packer Anthony William Packer (born Anthony William Paczkowski, Retr ... , who would become famous as a college basketball br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1961–62 Duke Blue Devils Men's Basketball Team The 1961–62 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University in the 1961–62 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Vic Bubas and the team finished the season with an overall record of 20–5. References Duke Blue Devils men's basketball seasons Duke Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ran ... 1961 in sports in North Carolina 1962 in sports in North Carolina {{collegebasketball-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1961–62 Loyola Ramblers Men's Basketball Team The 1961–62 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team represented Loyola University Chicago. The head coach was George Ireland. The Ramblers went 23–4 and earned a third place finish in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). Jerry Harkness led the team in scoring with a total of 567 points, making for an average of 21.0 points per game. Les Hunter led in field goal percentage at 49.3%, going 137 for 238 on the season. Vic Rouse led the team in rebounding, making 294 rebounds for a per-game average of 11.3, and in free throw percentage, sinking 85 out of 109 throws for 78.0% on the season. The team averaged 90.2 points per game, the fourth-highest scoring average in Loyola-Chicago history Roster :''Sources: Sports-Reference, Loyola yearbook'' Schedule , - !colspan=8 style=, Rankings References External links 1961–62 Loyola Ramblers statisticsat Sports Reference Sports Reference, LLC, is an American company which operates severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1961–62 Illinois Fighting Illini Men's Basketball Team The 1961–62 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois. Regular season The 1961-62 Fighting Illini basketball team bounced back from a miserable season the year prior. Head coach Harry Combes non-conference season was nearly perfect with an 8-1 record. The only blemish for the University of Illinois was a home loss to Cornell. The most unusual thing about this season was the fact that the Illini played three neutral court games in Chicago. This would also be the final full season that the Fighting Illini would play their home games at Huff Hall. The 1961-62 team utilized several returning lettermen including the leading scorer and team ''"MVP"'' Dave Downey. It also saw the return of team captain Jerry Colangelo, juniors Bill Burwell, Bill Small, Bob Starnes as well as senior Doug Mills. The Illini also added sophomore John Love to their lineup. The Illini finished the season with a conference record of 7 wins and 7 losses, finish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1961–62 Washington Huskies Men's Basketball Team The 1961–62 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1961–62 NCAA University Division basketball season. Led by third-year head coach John Grayson, the Huskies were members of the Athletic Association of Western Universities (Big Five) and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington. The Huskies were overall in the regular season and in conference play, tied for third in the standings. References External linksSports Reference– Washington Huskies: 1961–62 basketball season {{DEFAULTSORT:1961-62 Washington Huskies men's basketball team Washington Huskies men's basketball seasons Washington Huskies Washington Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States A metonym for the federal government of the United States Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]