The 1987-88 NCAA Basketball season started Saturday November 28th. The regular season ended Saturday March 5th. The Conference Tournament was the weekend of March 11th through 13th, and the NCAA Tournament was Thursday March 17th through Monday April 4th. The Kansas Jayhawks won the Title with Larry Brown as Head Coach. They Defeated Oklahoma 83-79. http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/seasons/1988.html.


Here are the ranked teams in alphabetical order:

SCHOOL	HIGHEST RANKING	HEAD COACH	BEST PRO PLAYER DRAFTED IN 1988
Arizona	#1	Lute Olson	Steve Kerr
Auburn	#19	Sonny Smith	Chris Morris
Bradley	#11	Stan Albeck	Hersey Hawkins
Brigham Young	#3	Ladell Anderson
DePaul	#20	Joey Meyer	Rod Strickland
Duke	#4	Mike Krzyzewski
Florida	#7	Norm Sloan	Vernon Maxwell
Georgetown	#11	John Thompson
Georgia Tech	#13	Bobby Cremins	Craig Neal
Illinois	#13	Lou Henson
Indiana	#5	Bob Knight	Dean Garrett
Iowa	#3	Tom Davis
Iowa State	#10	Johnny Orr	Jeff Grayer
Kansas	#7	Larry Brown	Danny Manning
Kansas State	#14	Lon Kruger	Mitch Richmond
Kentucky	#1	Eddie Sutton	Rex Chapman
Louisville	#13	Denny Crum
Loyola Marymount	#15	Paul Westhead	Corey Gaines
Memphis	#19	Larry Finch	Sylvester Gray
Michigan	#7	Bill Frieder	Gary Grant
Missouri	#8	Norm Stewart	Derrick Chievous
Nevada-Las Vegas	#2	Jerry Tarkanian	Gerald Paddio
New Mexico	#18	Gary Colson
North Carolina	#1	Dean Smith
North Carolina State	#11	Jim Valvano	Vinny Del Negro
Notre Dame	#19	Digger Phelps	David Rivers
Oklahoma	#3	Billy Tubbs	Harvey Grant
Pittsburgh	#2	Paul Evans	Charles Smith
Purdue	#2	Gene Keady	Todd Mitchell
Southern Mississippi	#18	M.K. Turk	Randolph Keys
St. John's (NY)	#20	Lou Carnesecca	Shelton Jones
Syracuse	#1	Jim Boeheim	Rony Seikaly
Temple	#1	John Chaney	Tim Perry
Texas-El Paso	#18	Don Haskins
Vanderbilt	#15	C.M. Newton	Will Perdue
Villanova	#19	Rollie Massimino
Wyoming	#5	Benny Dees	Eric Leckner
Xavier	#18	Pete Gillen

The Final Four was in Kansas City Missouri.
Final Four
Kansas beat Duke 66-59
Oklahoma beat Arizona 86-78


Championship game
Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79.