🏀 The 1947-48 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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1948season

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1947-48 national champion

The NCAA tournament winner.

National champion

Kentucky

36-3

Title gameBaylor 42, Kentucky 58 (Mar 23)

Final FourKentuckyBaylorHoly CrossKansas State

The 1948 NCAA tournament

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

8-team field · 2 regions

First Round

Baylor64

Washington62

Kansas State58

Wyoming48

West region

First Round

Baylor64

Washington62

Kansas State58

Wyoming48

East region

First Round

Final Four and the title game

Final Four

Baylor60

Kansas State52

West · Mar 20

Holy Cross52

Kentucky60

East · Mar 20

Championship game: Kentucky

Baylor42

Kentucky58

West vs East · Mar 23

Third-place games

Washington57

Wyoming47

Regional Third Place · West · Mar 20

Columbia49

Michigan66

Regional Third Place · East · Mar 20

Holy Cross60

Kansas State54

Third Place Game · East vs West · Mar 23

Conference tournaments

The champion and the other finalist of each of the 2 conference tournaments held in 1947-48.

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

1948 standings by conference

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

1948 standings by conference17 conferences

Big Seven7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kansas State	22-6	9-3	★ NCAA
Oklahoma	13-9	7-5
Missouri	14-10	7-5
Iowa State	15-8	6-6
Nebraska	11-13	5-7
Kansas	9-15	4-8
Colorado	7-14	4-8

Big Ten9 teams

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

Border9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Arizona	19-10	12-4	★
Northern Arizona	13-8
Texas Tech	16-12
Arizona State	13-11
New Mexico A&M	13-11
New Mexico	14-15
West Texas State	11-13
Texas Western	13-16
Hardin-Simmons	7-17

Eastern Intercollegiate7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Columbia	20-3	11-1	★ NCAA
Cornell	16-9	9-3
Princeton	12-11	6-6
Dartmouth	12-12	6-6
Pennsylvania	10-14	5-7
Yale	14-13	4-8
Harvard	5-20	1-11

Metropolitan New York7 teams

School	W-L	Conf
NYU	22-4	5-1
CCNY	18-3	4-1
Manhattan	22-6	3-3
Fordham	17-6	3-3
St. John's	12-11	3-3
St. Francis (NY)	16-9	2-3
Brooklyn	10-10	0-6

Mid-American6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Cincinnati	17-7	7-2	★
Butler	14-7	4-2
Ohio	10-10	4-4
Miami (OH)	13-15	3-5
Western Michigan	12-10	1-2
Western Reserve	14-10	2-6

Middle Atlantic States5 teams

School	W-L	Conf
Muhlenberg	21-4	8-0
Lafayette	12-9	5-3
Gettysburg	10-10	4-4
Bucknell	5-17	2-6
Lehigh	2-16	1-7

Missouri Valley6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Oklahoma A&M	27-4	10-0	★
Saint Louis	24-3	8-2
Drake	14-12	5-5
Creighton	10-13	4-6
Tulsa	7-16	2-8
Wichita	12-13	1-9

Mountain States6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
BYU	16-11	8-2	★
Wyoming	18-9	6-4	NCAA
Denver	18-11	6-4
Utah	11-9	6-4
Utah State	8-16	3-7
Colorado A&M	6-15	1-9

Pacific Coast9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
California	25-9	11-1
Washington	23-11	10-6	★ NCAA
Oregon State	21-13	10-6
USC	14-10	7-5
Washington State	19-10	9-7
Oregon	18-11	8-8
Stanford	15-11	3-9
UCLA	12-13	3-9
Idaho	12-18	3-13

Rocky Mountain3 teams

School	W-L	Note
Colorado College	11-8
Colorado State College	10-13	★
Colorado Mines	1-12

Southeastern12 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kentucky	36-3	9-0	★ 🏆 NCAA
Tulane	23-3	13-1
Tennessee	20-5	10-2
Alabama	15-12	8-8
Auburn	12-10	7-7
Georgia	18-10	6-8
Florida	15-10	5-7
Georgia Tech	12-16	6-10
Mississippi State	6-12	6-10
Mississippi	11-12	5-9
LSU	8-18	4-10
Vanderbilt	8-14	4-11

Southern16 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
North Carolina State	29-3	12-0	★ 🏆
George Washington	19-7	13-3
North Carolina	20-7	11-4
Maryland	11-14	9-6
Davidson	19-9	10-7
Virginia Tech	14-9	7-5
Duke	17-12	8-6
Wake Forest	18-11	8-7
William & Mary	13-10	8-7
South Carolina	12-11	8-7
Washington & Lee	7-17	5-9
Citadel	8-9	4-8
Richmond	8-14	4-9
Furman	11-15	3-10
Clemson	6-17	3-14
VMI	3-16	1-12

Southwest7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Baylor	24-8	11-1	★ NCAA
Texas	20-5	9-3
Arkansas	16-8	8-4
Rice	10-14	6-6
SMU	13-10	5-7
Texas A&M	7-17	2-10
TCU	3-20	1-11

Western N.Y. Little 33 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Niagara	15-9	3-1	★
Canisius	10-15	2-2
St. Bonaventure	12-10	1-3

Yankee6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Connecticut	17-6	6-1	★
Rhode Island	17-6	5-1
Vermont	14-6
Maine	11-7
New Hampshire	5-12
Massachusetts	2-14

Independent57 teams

School	W-L	Note
Western Kentucky State	28-2
Bradley	28-3
Hamline	28-3
Holy Cross	26-4	NCAA
West Virginia	17-3
La Salle	20-4
Louisville	29-6
Bowling Green	27-6
Seton Hall	18-4
Long Island	17-4
Toledo	21-5
Indiana State	27-7
Lawrence	22-6
Siena	22-6
Xavier	24-8
Loyola-Chicago	26-9
Baldwin-Wallace	17-6
Duquesne	17-6
Colgate	14-5
DePaul	22-8
Eastern Kentucky	17-7
Notre Dame	17-7
Marshall	22-11
Montana State	18-9
Montana	21-11
Kent State	15-8
Texas Wesleyan	19-11
Akron	15-9
Villanova	15-9
Virginia	16-10
Rutgers	14-9
Navy	10-7
Boston College	13-10
Michigan State	12-10
San Francisco	13-11
St. Joseph's	13-11
Boston University	10-9
Temple	12-11
Santa Clara	11-11
Pittsburgh	10-11
Washington University	10-11
Penn State	9-10
Army	8-9
Georgetown	13-15
Dayton	12-14
St. Mary's	11-13
Syracuse	11-13
Youngstown State	10-14
John Carroll	9-14
Seattle	10-16
Wayne State	8-13
Marquette	9-15
Nevada	9-16
Valparaiso	8-15
Detroit	7-15
Brown	6-14
Scranton	7-20

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.