🏀 The 1920-21 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 · 8 conferences

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1921 standings by conference

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

1921 standings by conference8 conferences

Big Ten10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Michigan	18-4	8-4	★
Wisconsin	13-4	8-4	★
Purdue	13-7	8-4	★
Minnesota	10-5	7-5
Illinois	11-7	7-5
Indiana	15-6	6-5
Iowa	9-9	6-5
Chicago	14-6	6-6
Ohio State	4-13	2-10
Northwestern	2-12	1-11

Eastern Intercollegiate6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Pennsylvania	21-2	9-1	★
Dartmouth	13-9	7-3
Cornell	12-10	6-4
Princeton	14-9	4-6
Columbia	7-9	3-7
Yale	9-17	1-9

Missouri Valley9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Missouri	17-1	17-1	★
Nebraska	15-3	9-1
Kansas State	14-5	11-4
Kansas	10-8	10-8
Iowa State	10-8	6-8
Drake	10-8	5-8
Oklahoma	8-10	5-9
Grinnell	6-12	2-12
Washington University	3-17	2-16

Pacific Coast6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Stanford	15-3	8-3	★
California	19-4	8-3
Washington	18-4	10-4
Oregon	15-5	8-4
Washington State	12-16	3-11
Oregon State	6-17	2-14

Rocky Mountain5 teams

School	W-L	Conf
Colorado	8-0	6-0
Colorado College	7-4	3-2
Colorado A&M	4-7	2-4
Denver	2-8	0-5
Colorado Mines	5-2

Southern13 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kentucky	13-1
Georgia	13-4
Clemson	10-4
Millsaps	9-4
Mississippi State	10-6
Tennessee	8-7
Newberry	2-2
Tulane	7-10
South Carolina	7-11
Auburn	5-8
Birmingham-Southern	5-8
Georgia Tech	4-10
Furman	1-12

Southwest5 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Texas A&M	16-6	10-2	★
Baylor	13-11	8-4
Texas	13-5	9-5
Rice	5-10	4-9
SMU	6-13	0-11

Independent120 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Arizona	7-0
Holy Cross	2-0
St. John's College (OH)	15-0
Navy	18-1
Grove City	16-1
North Dakota	14-1
NYU	12-1
Central Missouri	22-2
Oberlin	11-1
VMI	11-1
New Mexico A&M	9-1
Tulsa	18-2
Wichita State	16-2
Gettysburg	7-1
Penn State	14-2
Akron	11-2
Wabash	22-4
BYU	10-2
DePauw	15-3
Utah	5-1
LSU	19-4
Marquette	14-3
Ohio	14-3
St. Francis (NY)	14-3
Butler	16-4
Denison	12-3
UCLA	8-2
West Texas A&M	8-2
Valparaiso	19-5
Virginia Tech	19-5
Idaho	15-4
Niagara	15-4
North Dakota Agricultural	15-4
Arizona State	11-3
Army	18-5
Nevada	10-3
Carleton	13-4
Seton Hall	13-4
Bucknell	12-4
Millikin	18-6
Ripon	9-3
CCNY	11-4
Lafayette	11-4
Southwestern (KS)	19-7
Citadel	8-3
Colgate	16-6
William & Mary	8-3
Virginia	13-5
Georgetown	10-4
USC	10-4
Western Michigan	12-5
Washington & Lee	9-4
Creighton	13-6
Indiana State	15-7
Boston University	2-1
Buffalo	12-6
Colorado State College	6-3
Kalamazoo	18-9
Saint Louis	12-6
Vermont	10-5
Loyola-Chicago	7-4
Temple	7-4
Fordham	15-9
Michigan Agricultural	13-8
Montana State	8-5
Wooster	8-5
Mount Union	11-7
Duke	9-6
Miami (OH)	9-6
Montana	12-8
North Carolina	12-8
Utah Agricultural	6-4
Duquesne	10-7
Rutgers	7-5
Pittsburgh	12-9
Syracuse	12-9
Mississippi	9-7
Northern Arizona	9-7
Muhlenberg	14-11
Canisius	5-4
Detroit	10-8
Springfield	10-8
West Virginia	11-9
Alabama	12-10
Bowling Green	8-7
Villanova	8-7
Rhode Island	9-8
Washburn	9-8
St. John's	10-9
Union (NY)	10-9
Davidson	7-7
Washington College	6-6
Cincinnati	10-11
Harvard	9-10
Florida	5-6
Bradley	7-9
Connecticut	7-9
Franklin	6-8
Lehigh	6-8
Wyoming	3-4
Wake Forest	7-10
Marshall	6-9
Notre Dame	9-14
Vanderbilt	8-13
Kent State	4-7
Brown	5-9
Xavier	1-2
North Carolina State	6-14
George Washington	4-10
Santa Clara	2-5
St. Joseph's	4-10
Dayton	6-16
Louisville	3-8
Richmond	4-13
Oklahoma A&M	2-9
St. Bonaventure	2-13
Toledo	1-12
Manhattan	0-6
St. Mary's	0-2
TCU	0-3

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.