1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season
1919–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season | |
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Helms National Champions | Penn Quakers (retroactive selection in 1943) |
Player of the Year (Helms) | Howard Cann, NYU (retroactive selection in 1944) |
The 1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1919, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1920.
Season headlines
[edit]- Penn of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League met Chicago of the Big Ten Conference in a three-game national championship playoff, with the first game at Chicago, the second at Penn, and the third at Princeton University. Chicago won the first game 28–24, and Penn the second game, 29-18, after which Penn students celebrated all night and threw bricks and fired shots at policemen. Penn also won the third game, 23-21, to win the championship.[1][2] On February 25, 1921, the Atlanta Constitution ran an article by sportswriter Walter Camp in which Camp observed that the Chicago-Penn championship series had demonstrated the need for a national standardization of college basketball rules and the interpretation of them and expressed the view that no way of determining a national champion yet existed in college basketball.[2]
- NYU, led by Howard Cann, won the post-season Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national championship tournament by defeating Rutgers, 49-24. NYU became the second of only four collegiate teams to win the tournament — in which a mix of collegiate and non-collegiate amateur teams competed — and the only one to do so between 1916 and 1924.[2]
- In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Penn as its national champion for the 1919–20 season.[2]
- In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Penn as its national champion for the 1919–20 season.[3]
Conference membership changes
[edit]School | Former Conference | New Conference |
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Nebraska Cornhuskers | Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Independent |
Oklahoma Sooners | Independent | Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Phillips Haymakers | No major basketball program | Southwest Conference |
Regular season
[edit]Conferences
[edit]Conference winners
[edit]Conference | Regular Season Winner[4] |
Conference Player of the Year |
Conference Tournament |
Tournament Venue (City) |
Tournament Winner |
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Big Ten Conference | Chicago | None Selected | No Tournament | ||
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League | None[a] | None Selected | No Tournament | ||
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Missouri | None Selected | No Tournament | ||
Pacific Coast Conference | Stanford | None Selected | No Tournament | ||
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference | Colorado | No Tournament | |||
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Vanderbilt | None Selected | No Tournament | ||
Southwest Conference | Texas A&M | None Selected | No Tournament |
a Dartmouth was unable to field a team, so Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League conference play was informal in 1919–20 and no official champion was declared. However, had a champion been named, Penn would have won the regular-season championship with a 7–1 conference record.[5]
Conference standings
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Independents
[edit]A total of 130 college teams played as major independents. Among independents that played at least 10 games, Montana State (13–0), North Dakota (16–0), Southwestern (14–0), and Westminster (17–0) were undefeated, and Millikin (22–1) and Nebraska (22–2) finished with the most wins.[7]
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Premo-Porretta Power Poll
[edit]St. Bonaventure University accounting professor Patrick M. Premo and computer programmer Phil Porretta researched teams from the 1895–96 through the 1947–48 seasons, reviewing results, opponents, and margins of victory to create retroactive polls for the seasons predating the debut of the AP Poll. In 1995, they released their retroactive annual rankings as the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Their poll for the 1919–20 season is below.[8]
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Statistical leaders
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Award winners
[edit]Helms College Basketball All-Americans
[edit]The practice of selecting a Consensus All-American Team did not begin until the 1928–29 season. The Helms Athletic Foundation later retroactively selected a list of All-Americans for the 1919–20 season.[9]
Major player of the year awards
[edit]Coaching changes
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A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.
Team | Former Coach |
Interim Coach |
New Coach |
Reason |
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Rhode Island State | Fred Murray | Frank Keaney |
References
[edit]- ^ 2009-10 Penn Men's Basketball Media Guide (PDF). p. 93. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 6, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
- ^ a b c d Scott, Jon (November 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved May 10, 2021.
- ^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. pp. 526, 529–587. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- ^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
- ^ ESPN Editors (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: Random House, Inc. p. 534. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- ^ "2017-18 Men's Basketball Media Guide". Pac-12 Conference. p. 70. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ^ "1919-20 Men's Independent Season Summary". Sports Reference. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
- ^ ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia. Ballantine Books. 2009. pp. 526, 535. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- ^ The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"