1923–24 NCAA men's basketball season
1923–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season | |
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Helms National Champions | North Carolina (retroactive selection in 1943) |
Player of the Year (Helms) | Charlie T. Black, Kansas (retroactive selection in 1944) |
← 1922–23 1924–25 → |
The 1923–24 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1923, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded in March 1924.
Rule changes
A new rule required the player who was fouled to shoot his own free throws. Previously, a team could pick any player it wanted to shoot its free throws, and usually picked its best free-throw shooter to shoot all of them. The new rule thus brought to an end the practice of a team having a designated free-throw shooter.[1][2]
Season headlines
- North Carolina went undefeated, going 26-0, under coach Norman Shepard. The record included the 1924 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament.[3]
- Butler won the annual Amateur Athletic Union basketball tournament — which included both collegiate and amateur non-collegiate teams — becoming the third of only four college teams to do so and the first to win the tournament since 1920.[4]
- In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected North Carolina as its national champion for the 1923–24 season.[4]
- In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected North Carolina as its national champion for the 1923–24 season.[5]
Conference membership changes
School | Former conference | New conference |
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Arkansas Razorbacks | Non-major basketball program | Southwest Conference |
Maryland Terrapins | Non-major basketball program | Southern Conference |
Sewanee Tigers | Independent | Southern Conference |
TCU Horned Frogs | Independent | Southwest Conference |
Western State Mountaineers | Non-major basketball program | Independent |
Regular season
Conference winners and tournaments
Conference | Regular season winner[6] | Conference player of the year | Conference tournament | Tournament venue (City) | Tournament winner |
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Big Ten Conference | Chicago, Illinois, & Wisconsin | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League | Cornell | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Kansas | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Pacific Coast Conference | Washington (North); California (South) | No Tournament; California defeated Washington in best-of-three conference championship playoff series | |||
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference | Colorado College (Colorado); BYU (Utah) | No Tournament; Colorado College was deemed conference champion | |||
Southern Conference | Tulane | None selected | 1924 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament | Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Georgia) | North Carolina[7] |
Southwest Conference | Texas | None selected | No Tournament |
Statistical leaders
Awards
Helms College Basketball All-Americans
The practice of selecting a Consensus All-American Team did not begin until the 1928–29 season. The Helms Athletic Foundation later retroactively selected a list of All-Americans for the 1923–24 season.[8]
Player | Team |
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Tusten Ackerman | Kansas |
Charlie T. Black | Kansas |
Cartwright Carmichael | North Carolina |
Jack Cobb | North Carolina |
Abb Curtis | Texas |
Amory Gill | Oregon Agricultural |
Harry Kipke | Michigan |
Hugh Latham | Oregon |
James Lovley | Creighton |
H. W. Middlesworth | Butler |
Major player of the year awards
- Helms Player of the Year: Charlie T. Black, Kansas (retroactive selection in 1944)
Coaching changes
A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.
Team | Former Coach | Interim Coach | New Coach | Reason |
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Indiana | Leslie Mann | Everett Dean | ||
Marshall | Bill Strickling | Russ Meredith |
References
- ^ orangehoops.org History of NCAA Basketball Rule Changes
- ^ Schleyer, Claudia, "The Rules of Basketball: Boy How They've Changed!", Youth Hoops 101 Accessed 15 May 2021
- ^ "1923-24 UNC Tar Heels Roster and Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
- ^ a b Scott, Jon (November 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved December 14, 2015.
- ^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. pp. 526, 529–587. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- ^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
- ^ 2008–09 SoCon Men's Basketball Media Guide – Postseason Section, Southern Conference, retrieved 2009-02-09
- ^ The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"
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