🏀 The 1897-98 men’s college basketball season
What the record holds for this season: the champion, the tournament bracket, the AP poll week by week, the conference tables, and the Elo ratings with the biggest upsets.
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1898 standings by conference
Overall and conference record. A star marks the regular-season champion, a trophy the conference-tournament champion.
1898 standings by conference1 conferences
Independent24 teams
| School | W-L | Conf | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago | 1-0 | ||
| Minnesota A&M | 1-0 | ||
| Mount Union | 8-1 | ||
| Savage School | 6-1 | ||
| Bloomsburg | 5-1 | ||
| Temple | 22-5 | ||
| Western Reserve | 4-1 | ||
| Penn State | 2-1 | ||
| Westminster (PA) | 4-2 | ||
| Hiram | 3-2 | ||
| Yale | 12-9 | ||
| Allegheny | 2-2 | ||
| Bucknell | 4-4 | ||
| Rose-Hulman | 2-2 | ||
| Butler | 2-3 | ||
| Minnesota | 2-4 | ||
| Notre Dame | 1-2 | ||
| Stevens Point Normal | 1-2 | ||
| Macalester | 1-3 | ||
| Nebraska | 1-3 | ||
| Central Pennsylvania | 0-1 | ||
| Iowa | 0-1 | ||
| North Dakota Agricultural | 0-6 | ||
| Wabash | 0-2 |
Where these numbers come from
Enough to disbelieve this page on purpose rather than by accident.
Champions, brackets, polls and standings are read from the Citizen of Nowhere college basketball database, one season at a time. A section appears only where the database holds its data: the NCAA tournament began in 1939 (earlier champions are retroactive selections), the AP poll in 1949, and game-by-game results, and so the Elo ratings and upsets, in 1950.
Elo ratings and upsets come from the site’s own men’s college basketball Elo, built from every game since 1950. An upset’s win chance is the winner’s pre-game probability from those ratings.