Conferences Conference winners and tournaments Twenty-nine conferences concluded their seasons with a single-elimination tournament, with only the
Big Ten Conference,
Ivy League and
Pac-10 Conference choosing not to conduct conference tournaments. Since Penn and Princeton finished tied for the Ivy League regular-season title, the conference staged a one-game playoff between the teams at a neutral site to determine which school received the league's automatic bid to the
1996 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Conference tournament winners, with the exception of those of the
American West Conference and
Conference USA, received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
Conference standings Division I independents Two schools played as
Division I independents. They had no postseason play.
Informal championships For the fifth consecutive season, the Philadelphia Big 5 did not play a full round-robin schedule in which each team met each other team once, a format it had used from its first season of competition in
1955–56 through
the 1990–91 season. Instead, each team played only two games against other Big 5 members, and Temple finished with a 2–0 record in head-to-head competition among the Big 5. The Big 5 did not revive its full round-robin schedule until
the 1999–2000 season.
Statistical leaders Source for additional stats categories == Postseason tournaments ==