1936–37 NCAA men's basketball season

The 1936–37 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1936, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded in March 1937.

Season headlines

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Conference membership changes

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School Former conference New conference
The Citadel Bulldogs Independent Southern Conference
Davidson Wildcats Independent Southern Conference
Furman Paladins Independent Southern Conference
Richmond Spiders Independent Southern Conference
Wake Forest Demon Deacons Independent Southern Conference
William & Mary Indians Independent Southern Conference

Regular season

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Conferences

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Conference winners and tournaments

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Conference Regular
season winner[3]
Conference
player of the year
Conference
tournament
Tournament
venue (City)
Tournament
winner
Big Six Conference Kansas & Nebraska None selected No Tournament
Big Ten Conference Illinois & Minnesota None selected No Tournament
Border Conference New Mexico State None selected No Tournament
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Penn None selected No Tournament
Eastern Intercollegiate Conference Pittsburgh & Temple None selected No Tournament;
Pittsburgh defeated Temple in a single-game conference playoff
Metropolitan New York Conference Long Island None selected No Tournament
Missouri Valley Conference Oklahoma A&M None selected No Tournament
Pacific Coast Conference Washington State (North); Stanford (South) No Tournament;
Stanford defeated Washington State in best-of-three conference championship playoff series
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Colorado & Denver (Eastern);
Montana State & Utah (Western)
No Tournament
Southeastern Conference Kentucky None selected 1937 SEC men's basketball tournament Alumni Memorial Gym (Knoxville, Tennessee) Kentucky
Southern Conference Washington and Lee None selected 1937 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament Thompson Gym
(Raleigh, North Carolina)
Washington and Lee[4]
Southwest Conference SMU None selected No Tournament

Conference standings

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1936–37 Big Six Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Kansas 8 2   .800 15 4   .789
Nebraska 8 2   .800 13 7   .650
Oklahoma 7 3   .700 12 4   .750
Kansas State 5 5   .500 9 9   .500
Missouri 2 8   .200 7 9   .438
Iowa State 0 10   .000 3 15   .167
1936–37 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Illinois 10 2   .833 14 4   .778
Minnesota 10 2   .833 14 6   .700
Michigan 9 3   .750 16 4   .800
Purdue 8 4   .667 15 5   .750
Ohio State 7 5   .583 13 7   .650
Indiana 6 6   .500 13 7   .650
Northwestern 4 8   .333 11 9   .550
Iowa 3 9   .250 11 9   .550
Wisconsin 3 9   .250 8 12   .400
Chicago 0 12   .000 4 16   .200
1936–37 Border Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
New Mexico A&M 15 3   .833 22 5   .815
Texas Tech 11 5   .688 18 7   .720
Arizona 9 7   .563 14 11   .560
New Mexico 10 10   .500 12 14   .462
Arizona State–Flagstaff 6 10   .375 11 13   .458
Arizona State–Tempe 7 11   .389 8 12   .400
Texas State M&M 0 10   .000 2 16   .111
1936–37 Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Penn 12 0   1.000 17 3   .850
Dartmouth 8 4   .667 14 8   .636
Columbia 7 5   .583 14 6   .700
Yale 7 5   .583 12 8   .600
Harvard 6 6   .500 10 8   .556
Princeton 2 10   .167 6 14   .300
Cornell 0 12   .000 3 14   .176
1936–37 Eastern Intercollegiate Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Temple 7 3   .700 17 6   .739
Pittsburgh 7 3   .700 14 7   .667
Penn State 6 4   .600 10 7   .588
Carnegie Tech 4 6   .400 9 11   .450
Georgetown 3 7   .300 9 8   .529
West Virginia 3 7   .300 9 14   .391
† Postseason conference championship playoff game winner
As of end of 1936-37 season[5]
1936–37 Metropolitan New York Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
LIU 2 0   1.000 28 3   .903
Fordham 5 1   .833 13 3   .813
Manhattan 5 2   .714 14 4   .778
NYU 4 2   .667 10 6   .625
CCNY 3 3   .500 10 6   .625
St. John's 1 4   .200 12 7   .632
St. Francis (NY) 1 5   .167 13 8   .619
Brooklyn 1 6   .143 11 8   .579
1936–37 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Oklahoma A&M 11 1   .917 20 3   .870
Creighton 8 4   .667 11 9   .550
Drake 7 5   .583 13 10   .565
Grinnell 7 5   .583 8 10   .444
Tulsa 4 8   .333 9 9   .500
Washington University 3 9   .250 6 12   .333
Washburn 2 10   .167 4 17   .190
1936–37 Pacific Coast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
North
Washington State 11 5   .688 24 8   .750
Oregon 11 5   .688 20 9   .690
Washington 11 5   .688 15 11   .577
Oregon State 5 11   .313 11 15   .423
Idaho 2 14   .125 8 19   .296
South
Stanford 10 2   .833 25 2   .926
USC 8 4   .667 19 6   .760
California 4 8   .333 17 10   .630
UCLA 2 10   .167 6 13   .316
† Conference playoff series winner
1936–37 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Eastern
Denver 10 2   .833 14 6   .700
Colorado 10 2   .833 10 5   .667
Western State 5 3   .625 10 7   .588
Colorado State 7 5   .583 7 6   .538
Northern Colorado 8 6   .571 9 8   .529
Wyoming 7 7   .500 8 9   .471
Colorado College 3 11   .214 4 14   .222
Colorado Mines 0 14   .000 0 14   .000
Western
Utah 7 5   .583 17 7   .708
Montana State 7 5   .583 17 10   .630
BYU 5 7   .417 17 10   .630
Utah State 5 7   .417 6 9   .400
1936–37 Southeastern Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Georgia Tech 10 0   1.000 13 2   .867
Tennessee 7 1   .875 17 5   .773
Ole Miss 7 3   .700 20 6   .769
Auburn 7 4   .636 11 4   .733
Kentucky 5 3   .625 17 5   .773
Georgia 5 3   .625 10 6   .625
LSU 7 6   .538 13 7   .650
Alabama 7 8   .467 11 10   .524
Mississippi State 6 7   .462 15 9   .625
Tulane 4 8   .333 6 8   .429
Vanderbilt 3 7   .300 6 10   .375
Florida 1 9   .100 5 13   .278
Sewanee 0 10   .000 1 15   .063
† Regular-season championship and SEC Tournament winner
1936–37 Southern Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Washington and Lee 11 1   .917 17 4   .810
North Carolina 14 3   .824 18 5   .783
Wake Forest 9 4   .692 15 6   .714
North Carolina State 14 7   .667 15 9   .625
Duke 11 6   .647 15 8   .652
South Carolina 7 4   .636 13 7   .650
Richmond 5 4   .556 13 7   .650
Virginia 6 7   .462 9 10   .474
Furman 3 4   .429 8 7   .533
Davidson 5 8   .385 13 10   .565
Maryland 5 8   .385 8 12   .400
Virginia Tech 4 9   .308 6 11   .353
VMI 5 11   .313 6 11   .353
Clemson 2 7   .222 6 15   .286
The Citadel 0 5   .000 7 12   .368
William & Mary 0 13   .000 0 18   .000
Southern Conference Tournament winner
1936–37 Southwest Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
SMU 10 2   .833 13 8   .619
Arkansas 8 4   .667 12 6   .667
Rice 7 5   .583 6 10   .375
Baylor 6 6   .500 11 9   .550
Texas 5 7   .417 13 10   .565
Texas A&M 5 7   .417 12 13   .480
TCU 1 11   .083 1 13   .071

Major independents

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A total of 52 college teams played as major independents. Western Kentucky State (21–2) had the best winning percentage (.913) and Marshall (23–8) finished with the most wins.[7]

1936–37 NCAA men's basketball independents standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Western Kentucky State   21 2   .913
Notre Dame   20 3   .870
Rutgers   13 2   .867
Ohio   18 3   .857
Rhode Island State   18 3   .857
Central Missouri State   17 3   .850
Loyola (Ill.)   16 3   .842
Toledo   18 4   .818
George Washington   16 4   .800
Bradley   15 4   .789
St. Joseph's   15 4   .789
Syracuse   13 4   .765
Western State Teachers   13 4   .765
Marshall   23 8   .742
DePaul   15 6   .714
Detroit   11 5   .688
Duquesne   13 6   .684
Santa Clara   13 6   .684
Kent State   15 7   .682
Villanova   15 8   .652
Navy   9 5   .643
La Salle   12 7   .632
Connecticut   11 7   .611
Saint Mary's (Calif.)   14 9   .609
Boston University   9 6   .600
Colgate   9 6   .600
San Francisco   10 7   .588
Bucknell   9 7   .563
Canisius   9 7   .563
Niagara   12 10   .545
Army   7 6   .538
Indiana State   7 6   .538
Montana   14 12   .538
Marquette   8 8   .500
Muhlenberg   9 9   .500
Valparaiso   9 9   .500
Xavier   7 7   .500
Cincinnati   9 10   .474
Wichita Municipal   9 12   .429
Dayton   7 12   .368
St. Bonaventure   4 7   .364
Lehigh   5 10   .333
Louisville   4 8   .333
Seton Hall   5 10   .333
Lafayette   6 13   .316
Brown   5 11   .313
Miami (Ohio)   5 11   .313
Butler   6 14   .300
Michigan State Normal   5 12   .294
Saint Louis   6 15   .286
Bowling Green State   4 11   .267
Loyola (Md.)   4 12   .250

Statistical leaders

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Awards

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Consensus All-American team

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Consensus Team
Player Class Team
Jules Bender Senior Long Island
Hank Luisetti Junior Stanford
John Moir Junior Notre Dame
Paul Nowak Junior Notre Dame
Jewell Young Junior Purdue

Major player of the year awards

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Other major awards

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Coaching changes

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References

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  1. ^ Scott, Jon (November 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
  4. ^ 2008–09 SoCon Men's Basketball Media Guide – Postseason Section, Southern Conference, retrieved 2009-02-09
  5. ^ sports-reference.com 1936-37 Eastern Intercollegiate Conference Season Summary
  6. ^ "2017-18 Men's Basketball Media Guide". Pac-12 Conference. p. 72. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  7. ^ "1936-37 Men's Independent Season Summary". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 1, 2024.