Columns: Conference | Regular Season Winner | Conference Player of the Year | Conference Tournament | Tournament Venue (City) | Tournament Winner
Atlantic Coast Conference | Duke & North Carolina | Mike Gminski , Duke | 1979 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament | Greensboro Coliseum ( Greensboro, North Carolina ) | North Carolina | Big Sky Conference | Weber State | Lawrence Butler , Idaho State | 1979 Big Sky Men's Basketball Tournament | Dee Events Center ( Ogden, Utah ) | Weber State | Big Ten Conference | Michigan State , Purdue & Iowa | None Selected | No Tournament | No Tournament | No Tournament | Eastern Athletic Association (Eastern 8) | Villanova | James Bailey , Rutgers | 1979 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament | Civic Arena ( Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) | Rutgers | Ivy League | Penn | Tony Price , Penn | No Tournament | No Tournament | No Tournament | Metro Conference | Louisville | Pat Cummings , Cincinnati | 1979 Metro Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | Mid-South Coliseum ( Memphis, Tennessee ) | Virginia Tech | Mid-American Conference | Toledo | Paul Dawkins , Northern Illinois | No Tournament | No Tournament | No Tournament | Pacific-10 Conference | UCLA | David Greenwood , UCLA | No Tournament | No Tournament | No Tournament | Pacific Coast Athletic Conference | Pacific | Ron Cornelius , Pacific | 1979 PCAA Men's Basketball Tournament | Anaheim Convention Center ( Anaheim, California ) | Pacific | Southland Conference | Lamar | David Lawrence , McNeese State | No Tournament | No Tournament | No Tournament | Southwest Conference | Texas & Arkansas | Sidney Moncrief , Arkansas (Consensus) | 1979 SWC Men's Basketball Tournament | The Summit ( Houston, Texas ) | Arkansas | Southwestern Athletic Conference | Alcorn State | Larry Smith , Alcorn State | No Tournament | No Tournament | No Tournament | Trans America Athletic Conference | Northeast Louisiana | Calvin Natt , Northeast Louisiana | 1979 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament | Ewing Coliseum ( Monroe, Louisiana ) | Northeast Louisiana | West Coast Athletic Conference | San Francisco | Bill Cartwright , San Francisco | No Tournament | No Tournament | No Tournament