🏀 The 1917-18 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 · 6 conferences

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1917-18 national champion

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

Retroactive champion

Syracuse

16-1

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.

1918 standings by conference

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

1918 standings by conference6 conferences

Big Ten10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Wisconsin	14-3	9-3	★
Minnesota	13-3	7-3
Northwestern	7-4	5-3
Indiana	10-4	3-3
Purdue	11-5	5-5
Ohio State	12-7	5-5
Illinois	9-6	6-6
Chicago	14-10	6-6
Iowa	6-8	4-6
Michigan	6-12	0-10

Eastern Intercollegiate6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Pennsylvania	18-2	9-1	★
Princeton	12-3	8-2
Cornell	11-4	7-3
Yale	7-14	4-6
Columbia	4-9	2-8
Dartmouth	0-26	0-10

Missouri Valley7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Missouri	17-1	15-1	★
Kansas State	12-5	10-5
Kansas	10-8	9-8
Nebraska	7-7	4-5
Washington University	9-8	4-8
Iowa State	6-9	1-6
Drake	2-17	0-10

Rocky Mountain5 teams

School	W-L	Conf
Colorado	9-2	6-1
Denver	3-4	3-3
Colorado A&M	5-5	2-3
Colorado Mines	3-5	1-5
Colorado College	3-2

Southwest5 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Rice	10-4	7-3	★
Texas	14-5	8-4
Texas A&M	9-9	7-7
Baylor	2-15	2-7
Oklahoma A&M	6-10	1-4

Independent128 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Canisius	5-0
Creighton	14-0
Miami (OH)	10-0
North Dakota	15-0
Oregon State	15-0
Rhode Island	3-0
Santa Clara	4-0
St. Mary's	15-0
Stevens	14-0
Stevens Point Normal	14-0
Utah Agricultural	9-0
Syracuse	16-1
Union (NY)	14-1
Idaho	12-1
LSU	12-1
Penn State	12-1
Oklahoma	11-1
Centre	10-1
Navy	14-2
Virginia	7-1
Geneva	13-2
Georgia	6-1
Washington & Jefferson	10-2
Kentucky	9-2
North Carolina State	13-3
Springfield	13-3
California	8-2
Bucknell	11-3
Arizona State	14-4
Valparaiso	7-2
Fordham	10-3
Kalamazoo	10-3
Boston University	6-2
Buffalo	6-2
Franklin	9-3
North Carolina	9-3
North Central	9-3
Tulane	6-2
Virginia Tech	15-5
Stanford	11-4
Marietta	8-3
Niagara	8-3
Detroit	13-5
St. Joseph's	5-2
CCNY	7-3
New Mexico A&M	7-3
Akron	9-4
Carleton	9-4
Warrensburg Teachers	9-4
Lafayette	15-7
Army	8-4
Duke	10-5
Vanderbilt	6-3
Western Michigan	8-4
Wyoming	4-2
Grinnell	7-4
Roanoke	7-4
BYU	5-3
Rutgers	5-3
Seton Hall	8-5
South Carolina	8-5
Southwestern (KS)	8-5
Arizona	3-2
Bowling Green	6-4
Clemson	3-2
North Dakota Agricultural	9-6
Davidson	7-5
Denison	7-5
Millsaps	7-5
Swarthmore	7-5
Georgetown	8-6
SMU	5-4
Utah	5-4
Lehigh	11-9
Mount Union	7-6
Temple	8-7
Wabash	8-7
Duquesne	4-4
Indiana State	8-8
Montana	6-6
Nevada	3-3
St. John's	8-8
TCU	4-4
VMI	6-6
Millikin	10-11
DePauw	7-8
Catholic	5-6
Delaware	5-6
Washington & Lee	5-6
Bradley	6-8
Colgate	9-12
Colorado State College	3-4
Louisville	3-4
Manhattan	6-8
Gettysburg	5-7
Auburn	2-3
Beloit	4-6
Marquette	4-6
Michigan Agricultural	6-10
Washington State	7-12
Pittsburgh	5-9
William & Mary	6-11
Dayton	2-4
Notre Dame	2-4
Ohio	4-8
Richmond	3-6
Toledo	2-4
Washington	4-8
Wooster	4-9
Alabama	2-5
Washington College	2-5
Oregon	3-8
Cincinnati	2-6
Montana State	2-6
Tennessee	3-9
Wake Forest	4-12
West Virginia	4-13
Wichita State	3-10
Grove City	2-7
Saint Louis	3-12
Washburn	2-9
Tulsa	1-5
Connecticut	1-6
NYU	1-10
Butler	0-6
Citadel	0-1
Muhlenberg	0-7
USC	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.