🏀 The 1935-36 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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1936season

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Conference tournaments

The champion and the other finalist of each of the 2 conference tournaments held in 1935-36.

Conference	Champion	Runner-up
Southeastern	Tennessee	Alabama
Southern	North Carolina	Washington & Lee

1936 standings by conference

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

1936 standings by conference13 conferences

Big Six6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kansas	21-2	10-0	★
Nebraska	13-8	7-3
Oklahoma	9-8	5-5
Iowa State	8-8	3-7
Kansas State	9-9	3-7
Missouri	5-12	2-8

Big Ten10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Indiana	18-2	11-1	★
Purdue	16-4	11-1	★
Michigan	15-5	7-5
Illinois	13-6	7-5
Northwestern	13-6	7-5
Ohio State	12-8	5-7
Iowa	9-10	5-7
Wisconsin	11-9	4-8
Minnesota	7-17	3-9
Chicago	6-14	0-12

Border7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Arizona	16-7	11-5	★
Arizona State	12-14	11-7
Texas Tech	14-6	8-6
New Mexico	16-10	11-9
Northern Arizona	15-9	7-7
New Mexico A&M	10-9	8-8
Texas Western	0-12	0-8

Eastern Intercollegiate7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Columbia	19-3	12-0	★
Pennsylvania	12-9	7-5
Dartmouth	11-10	6-6
Yale	8-16	6-6
Princeton	9-14	5-7
Harvard	7-15	3-9
Cornell	5-12	3-9

EIC6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Carnegie Tech	8-3	7-3	★
Pittsburgh	18-9	7-3	★
Temple	18-6	6-4
West Virginia	16-8	6-4
Georgetown	7-11	4-6
Penn State	6-11	0-10

Metropolitan New York8 teams

School	W-L	Conf
Long Island	25-0	3-0
NYU	14-4	7-1
Manhattan	17-3	5-1
St. John's	18-4	4-3
CCNY	10-4	3-3
St. Francis (NY)	15-8	4-6
Fordham	10-5	2-4
Brooklyn	18-9	0-7

Missouri Valley7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Creighton	13-6	8-4	★
Oklahoma A&M	16-8	8-4	★
Drake	16-12	8-4	★
Washburn	7-14	6-4
Grinnell	7-11	4-6
Washington University	6-13	3-9
Tulsa	6-14	3-9

Pacific Coast9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Washington	25-7	13-3
Stanford	22-7	8-4	★
USC	14-12	8-4
Oregon State	16-9	10-6
Washington State	22-8	8-8
California	13-16	6-6
Oregon	20-11	7-9
UCLA	10-13	2-10
Idaho	2-14	2-14

Rocky Mountain12 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Wyoming	12-7	11-3	★
Utah State	17-9	9-3
Colorado State College	14-6	10-4
Denver	11-5	8-4
Colorado College	14-9	9-5
Western State	13-7	5-5
BYU	16-9	6-6
Colorado	6-8	6-8
Montana State	11-8	5-7
Utah	7-15	4-8	★
Colorado A&M	7-9	3-9
Colorado Mines	0-14	0-14

Southeastern13 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kentucky	15-6	6-2
Vanderbilt	9-14	9-4
Tennessee	15-6	8-4	★ 🏆
Mississippi State	11-6	9-5
Auburn	10-5	7-4
Alabama	15-9	9-6
LSU	10-10	9-6
Georgia Tech	10-8	7-5
Mississippi	11-9	7-5
Georgia	9-11	6-7
Florida	5-10	2-8
Tulane	2-17	1-14
Sewanee	2-13	0-10

Southern10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Washington & Lee	19-2	10-1	★
North Carolina	21-4	13-3	🏆
North Carolina State	15-4	10-3
Maryland	14-6	4-3
Clemson	15-7	5-5
Duke	20-6	4-5
Virginia	11-13	4-8
South Carolina	11-8	1-6
Virginia Tech	5-16	1-9
VMI	3-14	0-10

Southwest7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Arkansas	24-3	11-1	★
Texas	15-9	8-4
Rice	12-10	8-4
Baylor	12-13	6-6
SMU	4-8	4-8
Texas A&M	9-9	3-9
TCU	3-11	2-10

Independent57 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Notre Dame	22-2
Western Kentucky State	26-4
George Washington	16-3
Western Michigan	15-3
Duquesne	14-3
DePaul	18-4
Indiana State	11-3
St. Bonaventure	7-2
Bucknell	13-4
Colgate	12-4
Furman	12-4
Toledo	12-4
Niagara	17-6
St. Joseph's	14-5
Rhode Island	13-5
Detroit	12-5
Syracuse	12-5
Richmond	14-6
Loyola (MD)	13-6
Santa Clara	12-6
St. Mary's	14-7
Ohio	13-7
William & Mary	11-6
Canisius	10-7
Cincinnati	10-7
Kent State	10-7
Citadel	7-5
Louisville	14-11
San Francisco	11-9
Montana	13-11
Rutgers	8-7
Xavier	8-7
Miami (OH)	9-8
Army	7-7
Brown	8-8
Loyola-Chicago	8-8
Navy	7-7
Valparaiso	8-8
Wichita State	12-12
Michigan State	8-9
Bowling Green	7-8
Saint Louis	9-11
Lafayette	7-9
Wake Forest	9-12
Lehigh	5-7
Bradley	6-10
Marshall	6-10
Marquette	7-12
Villanova	6-12
Butler	6-15
Seton Hall	4-11
Muhlenberg	5-16
La Salle	4-13
Connecticut	3-11
Davidson	4-15
Dayton	3-13
Boston University	1-13

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.