1925–26 NCAA men's basketball season

Men's collegiate basketball season

1925–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
Helms National ChampionsSyracuse (retroactive selection in 1943)
Player of the Year
(Helms)
Jack Cobb, North Carolina (retroactive selection in 1944)

The 1925–26 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1925, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded in March 1926.

Georgia Tech's team

Season headlines

  • In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Syracuse as its national champion for the 1925–26 season.[1]
  • In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Syracuse as its national champion for the 1925–26 season.[2]

Conference membership changes

School Former conference New conference
Oklahoma A&M Aggies Southwest Conference Missouri Valley Conference
USC Trojans Independent Pacific Coast Conference
Union Dutchmen Independent Non-major basketball program
VMI Keydets Independent Southern Conference

Regular season

Conference winners and tournaments

Conference Regular
season winner[3]
Conference
player of the year
Conference
tournament
Tournament
venue (City)
Tournament
winner
Big Ten Conference Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, & Purdue None selected No Tournament
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Columbia None selected No Tournament
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association Kansas None selected No Tournament
Pacific Coast Conference Oregon (North);
California (South)
No Tournament;
California defeated Oregon in best-of-three conference championship playoff series
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Colorado Agricultural & Colorado State Normal (Eastern);
Utah & Utah Agricultural (Western)
No Tournament
Southern Conference Kentucky None selected 1926 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament Municipal Auditorium
(Atlanta, Georgia)
North Carolina[4]
Southwest Conference Arkansas 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 1925–26 season.[5]

Player Team
Jack Cobb North Carolina
George Dixon California
Richard Doyle Michigan
Emanuel Goldblatt Pennsylvania
Gale Gordon Kansas
Vic Hanson Syracuse
Carl Loeb Princeton
Al Peterson Kansas
George Spradling Purdue
Algot Westergren Oregon

Major player of the year awards

Coaching changes

References

  1. ^ Scott, Jon (November 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
  4. ^ 2008–09 SoCon Men's Basketball Media Guide – Postseason Section, Southern Conference, retrieved 2009-02-09
  5. ^ The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"
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