🏀 The 1942-43 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 · 14 conferences · 8-team tournament

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1942-43 national champion

The NCAA tournament winner.

National champion

Wyoming

31-2

Title gameGeorgetown 34, Wyoming 46 (Mar 30)

Final FourWyomingGeorgetownDePaulTexas

The 1943 NCAA tournament

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

8-team field · 2 regions

First Round

Dartmouth35

DePaul46

Georgetown55

NYU36

East region

First Round

Dartmouth35

DePaul46

Georgetown55

NYU36

West region

First Round

Oklahoma50

Wyoming53

Texas59

Washington55

Final Four and the title game

Final Four

DePaul49

Georgetown53

East · Mar 25

Texas54

Wyoming58

West · Mar 27

Championship game: Wyoming

Georgetown34

Wyoming46

East vs West · Mar 30

Third-place games

Dartmouth51

NYU49

Regional Third Place · East · Mar 25

Oklahoma48

Washington43

Regional Third Place · West · Mar 27

Conference tournaments

The champion and the other finalist of each of the 2 conference tournaments held in 1942-43.

Conference	Champion	Runner-up
Southeastern	Tennessee	Kentucky
Southern	George Washington	Duke

1943 standings by conference

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

1943 standings by conference14 conferences

Big Six6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kansas	22-6	10-0	★
Oklahoma	18-9	7-3	NCAA
Missouri	7-10	5-5
Nebraska	6-10	5-5
Iowa State	7-9	2-8
Kansas State	6-14	1-9

Big Ten10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Illinois	17-1	12-0	★
Indiana	18-2	11-2
Northwestern	8-9	7-5
Wisconsin	12-9	6-6
Purdue	9-11	6-6
Minnesota	10-9	5-7
Ohio State	8-9	5-7
Michigan	10-8	4-8
Iowa	7-10	3-9
Chicago	0-21	0-9

Border8 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
West Texas State	15-7	10-0	★
Arizona	22-2	11-1
Texas Tech	13-11	7-5
Texas Western	11-6	4-4
Arizona State	10-9	6-6
Northern Arizona	4-8	1-7
New Mexico	3-17	1-11
Hardin-Simmons	1-9	0-6

Eastern Intercollegiate7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Dartmouth	20-3	11-1	★ NCAA
Princeton	14-6	9-3
Pennsylvania	14-7	6-6
Cornell	7-15	6-6
Columbia	8-8	5-7
Harvard	12-14	4-8
Yale	6-17	1-11

Metropolitan New York8 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
St. John's	21-3	6-1
Manhattan	18-3	5-2
Fordham	16-6	4-2
NYU	16-6	3-2	NCAA
Hofstra	15-6	3-2
CCNY	8-10	2-5
St. Francis (NY)	13-7	1-5
Brooklyn	6-11	0-5

Missouri Valley6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Creighton	19-2	10-0	★
Oklahoma A&M	14-10	7-3
Washington University	9-10	7-3
Saint Louis	11-10	3-7
Drake	8-9	3-7
Tulsa	0-10	0-10

Mountain States6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Wyoming	31-2	4-0	★ NCAA
BYU	15-7	7-1
Utah State	14-7	4-4
Utah	10-12	1-7
Colorado A&M	7-9	0-4
Denver	19-8

Pacific Coast9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
USC	23-5	7-1
Washington	24-7	12-4	★ NCAA
Oregon	19-10	10-6
Washington State	19-11	9-7
Oregon State	19-9	8-8
UCLA	14-7	4-4
Stanford	10-11	4-4
California	9-15	1-7
Idaho	14-20	1-15

Rocky Mountain3 teams

School	W-L	Note
Colorado College	11-7
Colorado State College	8-8	★
Colorado Mines	5-13

Southeastern12 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kentucky	17-6	8-1
LSU	18-4	11-2
Tennessee	14-4	6-3	★ 🏆
Mississippi State	14-8	13-7
Georgia Tech	11-5	7-4
Vanderbilt	10-8	9-7
Alabama	10-10	9-9
Mississippi	8-10	6-8
Tulane	4-9	4-8
Georgia	4-13	1-8
Auburn	1-14	1-12
Florida	8-7	0-6

Southern15 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Duke	20-6	12-1	★
George Washington	17-6	8-2	🏆
South Carolina	13-6	6-3
Davidson	18-6	7-4
Citadel	8-5	5-3
William & Mary	11-10	6-4
VMI	8-8	7-5
North Carolina State	7-9	7-5
Richmond	11-5	4-4
Maryland	8-8	5-5
North Carolina	12-10	8-9
Virginia Tech	7-7	3-6
Washington & Lee	7-12	2-10
Wake Forest	1-10	1-10
Clemson	3-13	0-10

Southwest7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Texas	19-7	9-3	★ NCAA
Rice	17-9	9-3	★
Arkansas	19-7	8-4
TCU	18-9	5-7
SMU	10-8	4-8
Texas A&M	11-11	4-8
Baylor	6-14	3-9

Yankee5 teams

School	W-L	Conf
Rhode Island	16-3	7-1
Connecticut	8-7	5-3
Maine	9-6	4-4
Northeastern	7-12	2-6
New Hampshire	4-14	2-6

Independent62 teams

School	W-L	Note
Villanova	19-2
Notre Dame	18-2
Seton Hall	16-2
Western Kentucky State	24-3
Akron	18-3
Rochester	12-2
Toledo	22-4
St. Joseph's	18-4
Georgetown	22-5	NCAA
DePaul	19-5	NCAA
Penn State	15-4
Western Michigan	15-4
Bowling Green	18-5
Washington & Jefferson	18-5
Nevada	14-4
Montana State	17-5
Valparaiso	17-5
Niagara	20-6
Indiana State	13-4
Detroit	15-5
Miami (OH)	11-5
Long Island	13-6
Siena	13-6
Pittsburgh	10-5
West Virginia	14-7
Duquesne	12-7
Wichita State	12-7
Montana	15-9
Muhlenberg	13-8
Ohio	11-7
San Francisco	13-9
Marshall	10-7
St. Mary's	12-9
La Salle	13-10
Canisius	11-9
Loyola-Chicago	12-10
Lafayette	7-6
Dayton	9-8
Santa Clara	10-9
Kent State	12-12
Temple	11-11
Cincinnati	9-10
Marquette	9-10
St. Bonaventure	8-9
Brown	9-11
Syracuse	8-10
Rutgers	7-9
Geneva	9-12
Navy	6-8
Bradley	8-11
Colgate	5-7
Bucknell	5-8
Virginia	8-13
Xavier	6-10
Army	5-10
Lehigh	5-10
Loyola (MD)	7-14
Butler	4-9
Boston University	3-10
Loyola Marymount	3-13
Holy Cross	1-5
Michigan State	2-14

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.