🏀 The 1936-37 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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1937season

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1936-37 national champion

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

Retroactive champion

Stanford

25-2

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.

Conference tournaments

The champion and the other finalist of each of the 2 conference tournaments held in 1936-37.

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

1937 standings by conference

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

1937 standings by conference13 conferences

Big Six6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kansas	15-4	8-2	★
Nebraska	13-7	8-2	★
Oklahoma	12-4	7-3
Kansas State	9-9	5-5
Missouri	7-9	2-8
Iowa State	3-15	0-10

Big Ten10 teams

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

Border7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
New Mexico A&M	22-5	15-3	★
Texas Tech	18-7	11-5
Arizona	14-11	9-7
New Mexico	12-14	10-10
Arizona State	8-12	7-11
Northern Arizona	11-13	6-10
Texas Western	2-16	0-10

Eastern Intercollegiate7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Pennsylvania	17-3	12-0	★
Dartmouth	14-8	8-4
Columbia	14-6	7-5
Yale	12-8	7-5
Harvard	10-8	6-6
Princeton	6-14	2-10
Cornell	3-14	0-12

EIC6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Temple	17-6	7-3	★
Pittsburgh	14-7	7-3	★
Penn State	10-7	6-4
Carnegie Tech	9-11	4-6
Georgetown	9-8	3-7
West Virginia	9-14	3-7

Metropolitan New York8 teams

School	W-L	Conf
Long Island	28-3	2-0
Fordham	13-3	5-1
Manhattan	14-4	5-2
NYU	10-6	4-2
CCNY	10-6	3-3
St. John's	12-7	1-4
St. Francis (NY)	13-8	1-5
Brooklyn	11-8	1-6

Missouri Valley7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Oklahoma A&M	20-3	11-1	★
Creighton	11-9	8-4
Drake	13-10	7-5
Grinnell	8-10	7-5
Tulsa	9-9	4-8
Washington University	6-12	3-9
Washburn	4-17	2-10

Pacific Coast9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Stanford	25-2	10-2	★
Washington State	24-8	11-5
Oregon	20-9	11-5
Washington	15-11	11-5
USC	19-6	8-4
California	17-10	4-8
Oregon State	11-15	5-11
UCLA	6-13	2-10
Idaho	2-14	2-14

Rocky Mountain12 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Denver	14-6	10-2	★
Colorado	10-5	10-2	★
Western State	10-7	5-3
Utah	17-7	7-5	★
Montana State	17-10	7-5	★
Colorado A&M	7-6	7-5
Colorado State College	9-8	8-6
Wyoming	8-9	7-7
BYU	17-10	5-7
Utah State	6-9	5-7
Colorado College	4-14	3-11
Colorado Mines	0-14	0-14

Southeastern13 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Georgia Tech	13-2	10-0
Tennessee	17-5	7-1
Mississippi	20-6	7-3
Auburn	11-4	7-4
Kentucky	17-5	5-3	★ 🏆
Georgia	10-6	5-3
LSU	13-7	7-6
Alabama	11-10	7-8
Mississippi State	15-9	6-7
Tulane	6-8	4-8
Vanderbilt	6-10	3-7
Florida	5-13	1-9
Sewanee	1-15	0-10

Southern16 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Washington & Lee	17-4	11-1	★ 🏆
North Carolina	18-5	14-3
Wake Forest	15-6	9-4
North Carolina State	15-9	14-7
Duke	15-8	11-6
South Carolina	13-7	7-4
Richmond	13-7	5-4
Virginia	9-10	6-7
Furman	8-7	3-4
Davidson	13-10	5-8
Maryland	8-12	5-8
VMI	6-11	5-11
Virginia Tech	6-11	4-9
Clemson	6-15	2-7
Citadel	7-12	0-5
William & Mary	0-18	0-13

Southwest7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
SMU	13-8	10-2	★
Arkansas	12-6	8-4
Rice	6-10	7-5
Baylor	11-9	6-6
Texas	13-10	5-7
Texas A&M	12-13	5-7
TCU	1-13	1-11

Independent52 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Western Kentucky State	21-2
Notre Dame	20-3
Rutgers	13-2
Ohio	18-3
Rhode Island	18-3
Central Missouri	17-3
Loyola-Chicago	16-3
Toledo	18-4
George Washington	16-4
Bradley	15-4
St. Joseph's	15-4
Syracuse	13-4
Western Michigan	13-4
Marshall	23-8
DePaul	15-6
Detroit	11-5
Duquesne	13-6
Santa Clara	13-6
Kent State	15-7
Villanova	15-8
Navy	9-5
La Salle	12-7
Connecticut	11-7
St. Mary's	14-9
Boston University	9-6
Colgate	9-6
San Francisco	10-7
Bucknell	9-7
Canisius	9-7
Niagara	12-10
Army	7-6
Indiana State	7-6
Montana	14-12
Marquette	8-8
Muhlenberg	9-9
Valparaiso	9-9
Xavier	7-7
Cincinnati	9-10
Wichita State	9-12
Dayton	7-12
St. Bonaventure	4-7
Lehigh	5-10
Louisville	4-8
Seton Hall	5-10
Lafayette	6-13
Brown	5-11
Miami (OH)	5-11
Butler	6-14
Michigan State	5-12
Saint Louis	6-15
Bowling Green	4-11
Loyola (MD)	4-12

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.