🏀 The 1957-58 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 · 19 conferences · 24-team tournament

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1958season

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1957-58 national champion

The NCAA tournament winner.

National champion

Kentucky

23-6Final AP #9

Title gameKentucky 84, Seattle 72 (Mar 22)

Final FourKentuckySeattleKansas StateTemple

The 1958 NCAA tournament

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

24-team field · 4 regions

First Round

Second Round

Regional Finals

Midwest region

First Round

Second Round

Regional Finals

West region

First Round

Arizona State68

Idaho State72

Seattle88

Wyoming51

Second Round

California54

Idaho State43

San Francisco67

Seattle69

Regional Finals

California62

Seattle66

Mideast region

First Round

Second Round

Indiana87

Regional Finals

East region

First Round

Second Round

Temple71

Regional Finals

Dartmouth50

Temple69

Final Four and the title game

Final Four

Kansas State51

Seattle73

Midwest vs West · Mar 21

Kentucky61

Temple60

Mideast vs East · Mar 21

Championship game: Kentucky

Kentucky84

Seattle72

Mideast vs West · Mar 22

Third-place games

Manhattan55

Maryland59

Regional Third Place · East · Mar 15

Idaho State51

San Francisco57

Regional Third Place · West · Mar 15

Indiana98

Miami (OH)91

Regional Third Place · Mideast · Mar 15

Arkansas62

Cincinnati97

Regional Third Place · Midwest · Mar 15

Kansas State57

Temple67

Third Place Game · Midwest vs East · Mar 22

Conference tournaments

The champion and the other finalist of each of the 2 conference tournaments held in 1957-58.

Conference	Champion	Runner-up	Final
Atlantic Coast	Maryland 86-74, Mar 8	North Carolina	86-74, Mar 8
Southern	West Virginia 74-58, Mar 8	William & Mary	74-58, Mar 8

The 1957-58 AP poll, week by week

Each team's rank in every poll. Tap a rank to read it.

Team	Dec10	17	24	31	Jan7	14	21	28	Feb4	11	18	25	Mar4	11
West Virginia	8	8	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	2	2	1
Cincinnati	19	4	5	5	7	5	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	2
Kansas State	5	3	3	3	4	2	3	4	4	1	1	1	1	3
San Francisco	6	7	7	6	6	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4
Temple	10			13	12	12	11	11	10	7	6	5	5	5
Maryland		6	6	7	11	8	6	9	8	9	14	17	17	6
Kansas	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	4	4	7	10	7
Notre Dame	15									17	10	8	7	8
Kentucky	3	5	9	10	9	9	9	8	12	12	13	12	9	9
Duke									13	8	7	6	6	10
Dayton							17	16	14	14	11	10	8	11
Indiana														12
North Carolina	1	1	4	4	3	6	8	7	7	11	16	9	13	13
Bradley	4	11	11	12	10	10	10	12	11	13	15	14	11	14
Mississippi State		18	10	9	5	11	14	14	17	18	18	16	15	15
Auburn												20	16	16
Michigan State	7	9	8	8	14	18	15	15	15	19	12	15	12	17
Seattle	14	12	15		20				16	16	17	18	19	18
Oklahoma State		16	14	14	8	7		6	6	6	8	13	18	19
North Carolina State	12	20	13	11	13	20	12	10	9	10	9	11	14	20
St. Bonaventure													20
California				19								19
Dartmouth						19	18	19	20		19
Tennessee						13	16			15	20
Oklahoma						14				20
Arkansas							20	17	18
Georgia Tech									19
St. John's			19	17	16	15	13	13
Wichita					20	17	19	18
Oregon State		17		18	15	16		20
Oklahoma City	18						7
Illinois					17
Memphis State	20				18
Utah		15	12	15	19
TCU				16
La Salle				20
Western Kentucky State			16
Richmond		19	17
Saint Louis	9		18
Iowa State			20
Minnesota	11	10
UCLA	13	13
Rice	16	14
Syracuse	17

Tap a rank to read it.

1958 final AP Top 20

The last Associated Press ranking of the season, with each team's record.

1958 final AP Top 20AP

1West Virginia26-2
2Cincinnati25-3
3Kansas State22-5
4San Francisco25-2
5Temple27-3
6Maryland22-7
7Kansas18-5
8Notre Dame24-5
9Kentucky23-6
10Duke18-7

1958 standings by conference

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

1958 standings by conference19 conferences

Atlantic Coast8 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Duke	18-7	11-3	★ AP 10
North Carolina State	18-6	10-4	AP 20
North Carolina	19-7	10-4	AP 13
Maryland	22-7	9-5	🏆 NCAA AP 6
Virginia	10-13	6-8
Clemson	8-16	4-10
Wake Forest	6-17	3-11
South Carolina	5-19	3-11

Big Seven7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kansas State	22-5	10-2	★ NCAA AP 3
Kansas	18-5	8-4	AP 7
Iowa State	15-8	8-4
Oklahoma	13-10	5-7
Nebraska	10-13	5-7
Missouri	9-13	3-9
Colorado	8-15	3-9

Big Ten10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Indiana	13-11	10-4	★ NCAA AP 12
Michigan State	16-6	9-5	AP 17
Purdue	14-8	9-5
Northwestern	13-9	8-6
Ohio State	9-13	8-6
Iowa	13-9	7-7
Michigan	11-11	6-8
Illinois	11-11	5-9
Minnesota	9-12	5-9
Wisconsin	8-14	3-11

Border6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Arizona State	13-13	8-2	★ NCAA
New Mexico A&M	14-9	7-3
Texas Western	14-9	5-5
Hardin-Simmons	11-14	4-6
Arizona	10-15	4-6
West Texas State	3-15	2-8

Ivy8 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Dartmouth	22-5	11-3	★ NCAA
Princeton	15-8	9-5
Yale	14-10	9-5
Pennsylvania	13-12	8-6
Harvard	16-9	7-7
Cornell	11-11	5-9
Brown	10-15	5-9
Columbia	6-18	2-12

Metropolitan New York5 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
St. John's	18-8	6-0
Manhattan	16-10	3-1	NCAA
St. Francis (NY)	14-9	2-1
NYU	10-11	2-2
Fordham	15-9	1-3

Mid-American7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Miami (OH)	18-9	12-0	★ NCAA
Marshall	17-7	9-3
Ohio	16-8	7-5
Bowling Green	15-8	6-6
Toledo	9-14	4-8
Kent State	9-14	3-9
Western Michigan	5-19	1-11

Missouri Valley8 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Cincinnati	25-3	13-1	★ NCAA AP 2
Bradley	20-7	12-2	AP 14
Saint Louis	16-10	9-5
Wichita	14-12	7-7
Houston	9-16	6-8
Drake	13-12	4-10
Tulsa	7-19	4-10
North Texas	3-18	1-13

Mountain States8 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Wyoming	13-14	10-4	★ NCAA
Utah	20-7	9-5
Colorado State	14-11	9-5
BYU	13-13	9-5
Montana	12-10	8-6
Denver	13-12	8-6
Utah State	4-20	3-11
New Mexico	3-21	0-14

Ohio Valley7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Tennessee Tech	17-9	8-2	★ NCAA
Morehead State	13-10	6-4
Western Kentucky State	14-11	5-5
Middle Tennessee State	11-10	4-6
Murray State	8-16	4-6
Eastern Kentucky	8-11	3-7
East Tennessee State	7-18

Pacific Coast9 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Oregon State	20-6	12-4	★
California	19-9	12-4	★ NCAA
UCLA	16-10	10-6
Idaho	17-9	9-7
USC	12-13	8-8
Stanford	12-13	7-9
Oregon	13-11	6-10
Washington	8-18	5-11
Washington State	7-19	3-13

Rocky Mountain5 teams

School	W-L	Note
Idaho State	22-6	★ NCAA
Montana State	18-8
Colorado College	6-11
Colorado State College	6-15
Colorado Mines	4-16

Southeastern12 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Kentucky	23-6	12-2	★ NCAA AP 9
Auburn	16-6	11-3	AP 16
Mississippi State	20-5	9-5	AP 15
Alabama	17-9	9-5
Tennessee	16-7	8-6
Georgia Tech	15-11	8-6
Vanderbilt	14-11	7-7
Mississippi	12-12	6-8
Florida	12-9	5-9
Tulane	8-15	3-11
LSU	7-18	3-11
Georgia	7-19	3-11

Southern10 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
West Virginia	26-2	12-0	★ 🏆 NCAA AP 1
Virginia Tech	11-8	10-5
George Washington	12-11	8-4
Citadel	16-11	9-6
Richmond	14-12	8-8
William & Mary	15-14	9-9
Furman	10-16	4-8
Davidson	9-15	4-8
Washington & Lee	9-16	4-9
VMI	4-17	1-12

Southwest8 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Arkansas	17-10	9-5	★ NCAA
SMU	15-10	9-5	★
TCU	17-7	8-6
Texas Tech	15-8	8-6
Rice	13-11	7-7
Texas A&M	11-13	7-7
Texas	10-13	5-9
Baylor	5-19	3-11

West Coast7 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
San Francisco	25-2	12-0	★ NCAA AP 4
St. Mary's	11-15	8-4
Santa Clara	13-11	6-6
Pepperdine	15-11	5-7
San Jose State	13-13	5-7
Pacific	9-15	5-7
Loyola Marymount	6-18	1-11

Western N.Y. Little 33 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
St. Bonaventure	21-5	4-0	★
Niagara	18-7	0-2
Canisius	2-19	0-2

Yankee6 teams

School	W-L	Conf	Note
Connecticut	17-10	9-1	★ NCAA
Rhode Island	4-17	3-7
Vermont	15-10
Massachusetts	13-12
New Hampshire	10-12
Maine	8-12

Independent50 teams

School	W-L	Note
Temple	27-3	NCAA AP 5
Dayton	25-4	AP 11
St. Peter's	20-4
Notre Dame	24-5	NCAA AP 8
St. Francis (PA)	20-5
Seattle	23-6	NCAA AP 18
Boston University	15-5
Iona	18-6
Providence	18-6
Air Force	17-6
Oklahoma State	21-8	NCAA AP 19
Pittsburgh	18-7	NCAA
Boston College	15-6	NCAA
Fresno State	19-8
Memphis State	15-7
Bucknell	16-8
Loyola-Chicago	16-8
St. Joseph's	18-9
Holy Cross	16-9
La Salle	16-9
Loyola (LA)	16-9	NCAA
Miami (FL)	14-8
Xavier	19-11
Portland	18-11
Gonzaga	16-10
Lafayette	16-10
Butler	15-10
Kentucky Wesleyan	14-10
Oklahoma City	14-12
Syracuse	11-10
Washington University	11-10
Villanova	12-11
Army	13-12
Detroit	13-12
Louisville	13-12
Marquette	11-11
Muhlenberg	12-12
Navy	10-10
Georgetown	10-11
Duquesne	10-12
Lehigh	8-10
Penn State	8-11
DePaul	8-12
Delaware	8-12
Florida State	9-16
Valparaiso	7-14
Rutgers	7-15
Colgate	6-16
Seton Hall	7-19
Siena	5-15

Elo ratings and upsets use the games in our record for this season, which is incomplete before 1995-96; team records come from the season standings.

1958 Elo and upsets

The ten highest-rated teams when the season ended, and the results the ratings gave the winner the least chance of.

1958 Elo and upsetsElo

Elo, top 10

1Kentucky1966
2Temple1953
3Kansas1947
4San Francisco1899
5Maryland1869
6Duke1866
7Cincinnati1857
8North Carolina1846
9Notre Dame1845
10Seattle1841

Biggest upsets

Oklahoma State 52, Kansas 50
Jan 2 · regular season · 3.0% win chance
Montana State 62, Iowa State 61
Jan 6 · regular season · 5.2% win chance
Rhode Island 85, Connecticut 81
Mar 1 · regular season · 5.3% win chance
Detroit 61, Canisius 54
Dec 7 · regular season · 5.8% win chance
Stanford 69, Oregon State 57
Feb 1 · regular season · 6.2% win chance
Colorado State 64, Colorado 55
Dec 2 · regular season · 6.9% win chance
Oklahoma State 46, Washington 39
Dec 13 · regular season · 7.5% win chance
Portland 58, Bradley 55
Jan 20 · regular season · 7.6% win chance
Cornell 60, Syracuse 54
Dec 14 · regular season · 8.3% win chance
Houston 81, Saint Louis 76
Mar 1 · regular season · 8.4% win chance

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.