🏀 The 1941-42 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 · 8-team tournament

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1942season

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1941-42 national champion

The NCAA tournament winner.

National champion

Stanford

28-4

Title gameDartmouth 38, Stanford 53 (Mar 28)

Final FourStanfordDartmouthColoradoKentucky

The 1942 NCAA tournament

8 teams. Winners in bold, seeds before each team.

8-team field · 2 regions

First Round

Colorado46

Kansas44

Rice47

Stanford53

West region

First Round

Colorado46

Kansas44

Rice47

Stanford53

East region

First Round

Final Four and the title game

Final Four

West · Mar 21

East · Mar 21

Championship game: Stanford

Dartmouth38

Stanford53

East vs West · Mar 28

Third-place games

Kansas55

Rice53

Regional Third Place · West · Mar 21

Illinois34

Penn State41

Regional Third Place · East · Mar 21

Conference tournaments

The champion and the other finalist of each of the 2 conference tournaments held in 1941-42.

Conference	Champion	Runner-up
Southeastern	Kentucky	Alabama
Southern	Duke	North Carolina State

1942 standings by conference

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

1942 standings by conference13 conferences

Big Six6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kansas	17-5	8-2	★ NCAA
Oklahoma	11-7	8-2	★
Iowa State	11-6	5-5
Nebraska	6-13	4-6
Kansas State	8-10	3-7
Missouri	6-12	2-8

Big Ten10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Illinois	18-5	13-2	★ NCAA
Indiana	15-6	10-5
Wisconsin	14-7	10-5
Iowa	12-8	10-5
Minnesota	15-6	9-6
Purdue	14-7	9-6
Northwestern	8-13	5-10
Michigan	6-14	5-10
Ohio State	6-14	4-11
Chicago	1-20	0-15

Border9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
West Texas State	28-3	16-0	★
Texas Tech	16-11	12-4
Arizona State	10-10	10-6
Northern Arizona	11-10	8-8
Texas Western	11-11	7-9
Arizona	9-13	6-10
Hardin-Simmons	6-10	6-10
New Mexico	9-13	5-11
New Mexico A&M	8-18	2-14

Eastern Intercollegiate7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Dartmouth	22-4	10-2	★ NCAA
Princeton	16-5	10-2
Cornell	9-12	7-5
Pennsylvania	9-9	5-7
Harvard	8-16	5-7
Yale	7-12	3-9
Columbia	2-13	2-10

Missouri Valley6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Creighton	19-5	9-1	★
Oklahoma A&M	20-6	9-1	★
Washington University	10-13	4-6
Saint Louis	8-12	4-6
Tulsa	3-13	3-7
Drake	2-13	1-9

Mountain States7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Colorado	16-2	11-1	★ NCAA
BYU	17-3	9-3
Wyoming	15-5	9-3
Utah	13-7	7-5
Utah State	6-10	3-9
Denver	4-16	2-10
Colorado A&M	3-16	1-11

Pacific Coast9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Stanford	28-4	11-1	★ NCAA
Oregon State	18-9	11-5
Washington	18-7	10-6
USC	12-8	7-5
Washington State	21-8	9-7
Oregon	12-15	7-9
California	11-19	4-8
Idaho	12-16	3-13
UCLA	5-18	2-10

Rocky Mountain4 teams

School	W-L	Note
Montana State	14-8
Colorado State College	14-11	★
Colorado College	8-7
Colorado Mines	7-12

Southeastern12 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Tennessee	19-3	7-1
Alabama	18-6	13-4
Kentucky	19-6	6-2	★ 🏆 NCAA
LSU	8-7	8-3
Auburn	11-6	9-5
Mississippi State	13-7	9-6
Georgia	7-10	5-8
Georgia Tech	8-8	4-7
Florida	8-9	3-8
Vanderbilt	7-9	3-8
Tulane	4-12	3-9
Mississippi	4-15	3-12

Southern16 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Duke	22-2	15-1	★ 🏆
George Washington	11-9	8-3
Wake Forest	16-8	13-5
North Carolina State	15-7	9-4
William & Mary	15-9	8-4
South Carolina	12-9	8-4
North Carolina	14-9	9-5
Washington & Lee	10-15	7-7
Furman	10-9	7-8
Richmond	9-9	4-8
Virginia Tech	10-10	4-8
VMI	7-11	5-10
Maryland	7-15	3-8
Davidson	12-13	3-9
Clemson	3-14	2-10
Citadel	2-14	1-12

Southwest7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Arkansas	19-4	10-2	★
Rice	22-5	10-2	★ NCAA
TCU	13-10	6-6
Baylor	11-9	6-6
Texas	14-9	5-7
Texas A&M	8-16	4-8
SMU	3-16	1-11

Yankee5 teams

School	W-L	Conf
Rhode Island	18-4	8-0
Connecticut	12-5	6-2
Northeastern	6-9	4-4
Maine	7-7	2-6
New Hampshire	4-15	0-8

Independent64 teams

School	W-L	Note
Long Island	25-3
St. Francis (NY)	16-2
Penn State	18-3	NCAA
Western Kentucky State	29-5
CCNY	16-3
Seton Hall	16-3
West Virginia	19-4
Toledo	23-5
Loyola (MD)	18-4
Indiana State	17-4
St. Mary's	20-5
St. John's	16-5
Bradley	15-5
Loyola-Chicago	17-6
Niagara	16-6
Notre Dame	16-6
Duquesne	15-6
Michigan State	15-6
Syracuse	15-6
Muhlenberg	17-7
Canisius	12-6
Dayton	12-6
St. Joseph's	12-6
Boston University	9-5
Fordham	12-7
NYU	12-7
Army	10-6
Marshall	15-9
Detroit	13-8
Brown	11-7
St. Bonaventure	12-8
Western Michigan	12-8
Butler	13-9
Villanova	13-9
Montana	14-10
San Francisco	14-10
Navy	8-6
Ohio	12-9
Siena	9-7
Kent State	14-11
Brooklyn	10-8
Holy Cross	5-4
Temple	10-8
Xavier	10-8
Washington & Jefferson	9-8
Santa Clara	10-9
La Salle	12-11
Bucknell	9-9
Cincinnati	10-10
Manhattan	10-10
Lehigh	7-8
DePaul	10-12
Georgetown	9-11
Rutgers	8-10
Louisville	7-10
Virginia	7-10
Bowling Green	8-12
Miami (OH)	6-9
Colgate	5-9
Marquette	6-11
Pittsburgh	5-10
Lafayette	4-12
Valparaiso	4-13
Wichita State	4-16

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.