🏀 The 1933-34 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 · 13 conferences

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1934season

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Conference tournaments

The champion and the other finalist of each of the 2 conference tournaments held in 1933-34.

Conference	Champion	Runner-up
Southeastern	Alabama	Florida
Southern	Washington & Lee	Duke

1934 standings by conference

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

1934 standings by conference13 conferences

Big Six6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kansas	16-1	9-1	★
Missouri	10-8	6-4
Oklahoma	10-8	6-4
Nebraska	7-11	5-5
Iowa State	6-11	2-8
Kansas State	3-15	2-8

Big Ten10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Purdue	17-3	10-2	★
Wisconsin	14-6	8-4
Northwestern	11-8	8-4
Illinois	13-6	7-5
Iowa	13-6	6-6
Indiana	13-7	6-6
Minnesota	9-11	5-7
Ohio State	8-12	4-8
Michigan	6-14	4-8
Chicago	5-15	2-10

Border6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Texas Tech	18-5	7-1	★
Arizona	18-9	9-3
New Mexico	16-4	6-4
Arizona State	9-11	8-10
Northern Arizona	9-14	6-10
New Mexico A&M	10-9	2-6

Eastern Intercollegiate7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Pennsylvania	16-3	10-2	★
Cornell	10-6	9-3
Princeton	13-8	7-5
Yale	14-9	7-5
Dartmouth	13-7	6-6
Columbia	5-14	3-9
Harvard	3-19	0-12

EIC6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Pittsburgh	18-4	8-0	★
West Virginia	14-5	7-3
Georgetown	12-11	5-5
Temple	9-12	5-5
Carnegie Tech	1-8	2-7
Bucknell	2-16	0-7

Metropolitan New York9 teams

School	W-L	Conf
NYU	16-0	9-0
Long Island	26-1	4-0
CCNY	14-1	4-1
Manhattan	8-10	4-4
St. John's	16-3	3-4
St. Francis (NY)	13-11	3-8
Fordham	11-5	1-4
Brooklyn	14-7	1-6
Pratt Institute	8-6

Missouri Valley6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Butler	14-7	9-1	★
Creighton	14-3	7-3
Grinnell	8-7	5-5
Washington University	7-11	4-6
Drake	6-12	4-6
Oklahoma A&M	4-14	1-9

Pacific Coast9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Washington	20-5	14-2	★
USC	16-8	9-3
California	19-7	8-4
Oregon	17-8	9-7
Oregon State	14-10	7-9
Stanford	8-12	5-7
Washington State	14-11	6-10
Idaho	4-12	4-12
UCLA	10-13	2-10

Rocky Mountain12 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Wyoming	26-3	14-0	★
BYU	18-12	9-3	★
Utah State	14-6	7-5
Utah	14-9	7-5
Colorado	9-8	7-5
Colorado College	10-11	7-5
Denver	8-9	7-7
Colorado State College	13-14	6-8
Colorado A&M	5-7	5-7
Western State	9-8	4-6
Montana State	5-22	1-11
Colorado Mines	1-13	1-13

Southeastern13 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kentucky	16-1	11-0
Alabama	16-2	13-2	★ 🏆
LSU	13-4	13-3
Florida	11-7	4-2
Vanderbilt	11-6	8-5
Tulane	10-10	8-10
Georgia Tech	6-12	5-8
Tennessee	10-7	3-5
Georgia	10-9	3-6
Mississippi State	8-11	4-8
Mississippi	7-9	2-8
Auburn	2-11	2-9
Sewanee	0-13	0-10

Southern10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
South Carolina	18-1	6-0	★
North Carolina	18-4	12-2
Maryland	11-8	6-1
Duke	18-6	9-4
North Carolina State	11-6	6-5
Washington & Lee	10-6	4-5	🏆
VMI	4-9	3-6
Virginia	7-11	1-9
Virginia Tech	1-15	1-10
Clemson	7-12	0-6

Southwest7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
TCU	13-2	10-2	★
Texas A&M	14-6	7-5
Arkansas	16-8	6-6
Texas	14-8	6-6
Rice	6-6	6-6
SMU	6-9	5-7
Baylor	8-10	2-10

Independent63 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
DePaul	17-0
Emporia State	17-1
Akron	15-1
Duquesne	19-2
Xavier	9-1
Syracuse	15-2
Navy	11-2
Notre Dame	20-4
Westminster (PA)	24-5
La Salle	14-3
Rhode Island	13-3
Marquette	15-4
Western Kentucky State	28-8
Villanova	9-3
George Washington	11-4
Carleton	12-5
Michigan State	12-5
Providence	12-5
Western Michigan	12-5
Springfield	11-5
Colgate	13-6
Bowling Green	10-5
Penn State	8-4
Richmond	10-5
Muhlenberg	11-6
Louisville	16-9
Cincinnati	12-7
Marshall	13-8
Montana	16-10
San Francisco	8-5
Rutgers	9-6
Dayton	9-7
Santa Clara	9-7
Saint Louis	10-8
Niagara	11-9
Canisius	7-6
Army	8-7
Citadel	8-7
St. Bonaventure	3-3
Valparaiso	9-9
Indiana State	8-9
Detroit	7-8
Loyola-Chicago	7-8
Washburn	7-8
Brown	7-9
St. Mary's	6-8
Tulsa	6-8
Boston University	5-7
Toledo	6-9
Kent State	5-9
Lehigh	5-9
Wake Forest	5-9
St. Joseph's	6-11
Connecticut	5-10
Davidson	6-13
William & Mary	4-9
Furman	5-12
Miami (OH)	4-11
Ohio	5-14
Lafayette	3-9
Loyola (MD)	2-8
Bradley	3-14
Texas Western	3-16

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.