🏀 The 1946-47 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 · 17 conferences · 8-team tournament

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1947season

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1946-47 national champion

The NCAA tournament winner.

National champion

Holy Cross

27-3

Title gameHoly Cross 58, Oklahoma 47 (Mar 25)

Final FourHoly CrossOklahomaCCNYTexas

The 1947 NCAA tournament

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

8-team field · 2 regions

First Round

CCNY70

Wisconsin56

Holy Cross55

Navy47

East region

First Round

CCNY70

Wisconsin56

Holy Cross55

Navy47

West region

First Round

Oklahoma56

Oregon State54

Texas42

Wyoming40

Final Four and the title game

Final Four

CCNY45

Holy Cross60

East · Mar 22

Oklahoma55

Texas54

West · Mar 22

Championship game: Holy Cross

Holy Cross58

Oklahoma47

East vs West · Mar 25

Third-place games

Navy49

Wisconsin50

Regional Third Place · East · Mar 22

Oregon State63

Wyoming46

Regional Third Place · West · Mar 22

CCNY50

Texas54

Third Place Game · East vs West · Mar 25

Conference tournaments

The champion and the other finalist of each of the 2 conference tournaments held in 1946-47.

Conference	Champion	Runner-up
Southeastern	Kentucky	Tulane
Southern	North Carolina State	North Carolina

1947 standings by conference

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

1947 standings by conference17 conferences

Big Nine9 teams

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

Big Six6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Oklahoma	24-7	8-2	★ NCAA
Missouri	15-10	6-4
Kansas	16-11	5-5
Iowa State	7-14	5-5
Kansas State	14-10	3-7
Nebraska	10-14	3-7

Border9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Arizona	21-3	14-2	★
Northern Arizona	20-7	11-5
New Mexico	11-8	10-6
Texas Western	12-8	9-7
West Texas State	12-12	8-8
Texas Tech	10-12	8-8
Arizona State	7-13	5-11
Hardin-Simmons	8-21	5-11
New Mexico A&M	8-17	2-14

Eastern Intercollegiate7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Columbia	15-5	11-1	★
Cornell	14-8	8-4
Pennsylvania	14-8	7-5
Harvard	16-9	5-7
Dartmouth	9-15	5-7
Yale	7-18	4-8
Princeton	7-16	2-10

Metropolitan New York7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
St. John's	16-7	6-0
CCNY	17-6	4-1	NCAA
Fordham	19-5	4-2
NYU	12-9	3-3
St. Francis (NY)	14-7	2-3
Manhattan	13-13	1-5
Brooklyn	12-8	0-6

Mid-American5 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Butler	16-7	6-2	★
Cincinnati	17-9	6-2	★
Ohio	13-10	5-3
Western Reserve	7-11	2-6
Wayne State	3-15	1-7

Middle Atlantic States6 teams

School	W-L	Conf
Muhlenberg	19-7	7-1
Dickinson	15-2	4-1
Lafayette	15-7	6-2
Bucknell	11-8	6-3
Gettysburg	7-14	2-8
Lehigh	5-13	0-10

Missouri Valley7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Saint Louis	18-11	11-1	★
Oklahoma A&M	24-8	8-4
Drake	18-11	8-4
Creighton	17-8	7-5
Washington University	11-14	3-9
Tulsa	5-19	3-9
Wichita	8-17	2-10

Mountain States7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Wyoming	22-6	11-1	★ NCAA
Utah	19-5	10-2
Denver	16-10	6-6
Utah State	14-10	6-6
Colorado	7-11	5-7
BYU	9-16	3-9
Colorado A&M	3-18	1-11

Pacific Coast9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Oregon State	28-5	13-3	★ NCAA
UCLA	18-7	9-3
Washington State	23-10	11-5
California	20-11	8-4
Washington	16-8	8-8
Oregon	18-9	7-9
Stanford	15-16	5-7
USC	10-14	2-10
Idaho	4-24	1-15

Rocky Mountain4 teams

School	W-L	Note
Colorado College	12-4
Montana State	25-11	★
Colorado State College	11-8
Colorado Mines	2-12

Southeastern12 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kentucky	34-3	11-0	★ 🏆
LSU	17-4	9-2
Tennessee	16-5	10-3
Alabama	16-6	13-5
Tulane	22-9	8-5
Florida	17-9	4-4
Georgia Tech	12-11	6-6
Vanderbilt	7-8	4-7
Mississippi State	10-11	4-9
Georgia	5-14	4-9
Mississippi	7-14	2-11
Auburn	3-18	1-15

Southern16 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
North Carolina State	26-5	11-2	★ 🏆
North Carolina	19-8	10-2
Duke	19-8	10-4
George Washington	21-7	9-4
Maryland	14-10	9-5
Richmond	17-9	8-5
South Carolina	16-9	7-5
Washington & Lee	16-7	7-6
Davidson	17-8	7-7
William & Mary	14-12	6-6
Wake Forest	11-13	8-9
Furman	9-10	5-7
Virginia Tech	13-13	4-9
Clemson	7-13	2-12
Citadel	5-11	1-11
VMI	2-14	1-11

Southwest7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Texas	26-2	12-0	★ NCAA
SMU	14-8	8-4
Arkansas	14-10	8-4
Baylor	11-11	6-6
Texas A&M	8-17	4-8
Rice	7-17	3-9
TCU	1-22	1-11

Western N.Y. Little 33 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Canisius	18-13	3-0	★
Niagara	13-8	2-2
St. Bonaventure	10-11	0-3

Yankee6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Vermont	19-3	1-0	★
Connecticut	16-2	6-1
Rhode Island	17-3	4-1
Maine	9-8	2-4
New Hampshire	6-11	0-5
Massachusetts	4-12	0-2

Independent50 teams

School	W-L	Note
Duquesne	20-2
Holy Cross	27-3	NCAA
Seton Hall	24-3
Marshall	32-5
West Virginia	19-3
Western Kentucky State	25-4
Navy	16-3	NCAA
Santa Clara	21-4
Notre Dame	20-4
Hamline	22-5
Bowling Green	28-7
Bradley	25-7
Long Island	17-5
La Salle	20-6
Syracuse	19-6
Toledo	18-6
Louisville	17-6
Georgetown	19-7
St. Joseph's	16-6
Villanova	17-7
Western Michigan	17-7
Loyola-Chicago	20-9
Miami (OH)	15-7
Indiana State	17-8
Boston University	14-7
Colgate	11-6
DePaul	16-9
Loyola (MD)	20-12
Seattle	18-12
Nevada	19-13
Army	9-7
Penn State	10-8
Boston College	12-10
Kent State	13-11
Michigan State	11-10
Siena	12-11
San Francisco	13-14
Detroit	12-13
Virginia	10-11
Pittsburgh	8-10
St. Mary's	13-17
Montana	12-16
Brown	8-12
Temple	8-12
Marquette	9-14
Rutgers	7-12
Valparaiso	11-20
Merchant Marine	8-16
Xavier	8-17
Dayton	4-17

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.