πŸ€ The 1911-12 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.

Source: Citizen of Nowhere college basketball database Β· 5 conferences
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1911-12 national champion

Named after the fact; there was no NCAA tournament yet.

Retroactive champion
15-0

There was no NCAA tournament before 1939. This champion is a retroactive selection, as named by the Helms Athletic Foundation or Premo-Porretta, not a tournament result.

1912 standings by conference

Overall and conference record. A star marks the regular-season champion, a trophy the conference-tournament champion.

1912 standings by conference5 conferences
Eastern Intercollegiate6 teams
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Columbia10-28-2β˜…
Dartmouth9-57-3
Pennsylvania10-76-4
Cornell6-75-5
Princeton8-83-7
Yale1-91-9
Missouri Valley6 teams
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Nebraska14-18-0β˜…
Kansas11-76-2β˜…
Washington University8-55-3
Iowa State8-74-4
Missouri5-101-7
Drake1-80-8
Rocky Mountain4 teams
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Colorado Mines6-15-0
Colorado5-22-2
Denver6-41-3
Colorado A&M3-51-4
Western Intercollegiate9 teams
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Purdue12-010-0β˜…
Wisconsin15-012-0β˜…
Chicago12-67-5
Minnesota7-66-6
Illinois8-84-8
Indiana6-111-9
Iowa6-80-4
Northwestern4-90-8
Ohio State7-5
Independent113 teams
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BYU7-0
Baylor13-0
California2-0
Clemson4-0
Dayton13-0
Grove City12-0
Kentucky9-0
Mississippi State9-0
Wesleyan13-0
Allegheny11-1
Swarthmore11-1
Navy8-1
Notre Dame16-2
North Dakota13-2
Duke6-1
Georgia6-1
Oregon12-2
Springfield6-1
Lake Forest11-2
Oregon State16-3
Mississippi10-2
Texas5-1
CCNY9-2
Nebraska Wesleyan9-2
Arizona State8-2
Michigan Agricultural12-3
St. Lawrence12-3
Creighton15-4
North Central11-3
Syracuse11-3
Oklahoma7-2
Beloit6-2
Montana State6-2
Oberlin9-3
Santa Clara18-6
St. John's15-5
Washington12-4
Loyola (MD)11-4
North Dakota Agricultural8-3
Wooster8-3
Canisius10-4
Franklin10-4
Lehigh10-4
Roanoke5-2
Utah5-2
Kalamazoo7-3
Washburn11-5
Akron6-3
Army8-4
Connecticut6-3
Davidson4-2
Kansas State10-5
Manhattan12-6
Millikin10-5
Virginia Tech6-3
Bradley11-6
Georgetown11-6
USC9-5
Carleton7-4
Virginia7-4
Bucknell10-6
Penn State8-5
Union (NY)8-5
Washington & Lee8-5
Seton Hall9-6
Wake Forest9-6
Hope10-7
Rhode Island4-3
Fordham17-13
Gettysburg9-7
Colorado State College5-4
Wabash5-4
Detroit6-5
VMI6-5
Colgate7-6
Indiana State7-6
Pittsburgh10-9
Niagara11-10
Arizona2-2
Augustana7-7
Butler5-5
Denison5-5
St. Mary's1-1
Temple4-4
Tennessee5-5
Vanderbilt9-9
Brown6-7
Wyoming5-6
North Carolina4-5
Marietta6-8
South Carolina3-4
LSU4-6
Mount Union4-8
New Mexico1-2
Southwestern (KS)5-10
Stevens Point Normal2-4
Miami (OH)3-7
Washington State5-12
William & Mary2-5
Auburn2-6
Oklahoma A&M2-6
Utah Agricultural2-6
St. Joseph's6-22
Wichita State2-8
Cincinnati2-9
Ohio2-9
Delaware2-10
Montana1-5
New Mexico A&M1-7
Millsaps1-8
NYU1-12
Idaho1-13
Louisville0-3

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.