1941–42 NCAA men's basketball season
Men's collegiate basketball season
1941–42 NCAA Division I men's basketball season | |
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NCAA Tournament | 1942 |
Tournament dates | March 20 – 28, 1942 |
National Championship | Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri |
NCAA Champions | Stanford |
Helms National Champions | Stanford (retroactive selection in 1944) |
Other champions | West Virginia (NIT) |
Player of the Year (Helms) | Stan Modzelewski, Rhode Island State (retroactive selection in 1944) |
← 1940–41 1942–43 → |
The 1941–42 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1941, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1942 NCAA basketball tournament championship game on March 28, 1942, at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The Stanford Indians won their first NCAA national championship with a 53–38 victory over the Dartmouth Big Green.
Season headlines
- The Metropolitan New York Conference did not compete during the season. Its members played as independents.
- Dartmouth and Kansas became the first teams to play in more than one NCAA tournament when they appeared in the 1942 tournament.
- In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Stanford as its national champion for the 1941–42 season.[1]
- In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Stanford as its national champion for the 1941–42 season.[2]
Conference membership changes
School | Former conference | New conference |
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George Washington Colonials | Independent | Southern Conference |
Sewanee Tigers | Independent | Non-major basketball program |
Washburn Ichabods | Missouri Valley Conference | Non-major basketball program |
Regular season
Conference winners and tournaments
Conference | Regular season winner[3] | Conference player of the year | Conference tournament | Tournament venue (City) | Tournament winner |
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Big Six Conference | Kansas & Oklahoma | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Big Ten Conference | Illinois | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Border Conference | West Texas State | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League | Dartmouth | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Metropolitan New York Conference | Did not play as conference | ||||
Missouri Valley Conference | Creighton & Oklahoma A&M | None selected | No Tournament | ||
New England Conference | Rhode Island State | No Tournament | |||
Pacific Coast Conference | Oregon State (North); Stanford (South) | No Tournament; Stanford defeated Oregon State in best-of-three conference championship playoff series | |||
Skyline Conference | Colorado | No Tournament | |||
Southeastern Conference | Kentucky | None selected | 1942 SEC men's basketball tournament | Jefferson County Armory, (Louisville, Kentucky) | Kentucky |
Southern Conference | Duke | None selected | 1942 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament | Thompson Gym (Raleigh, North Carolina) | Duke[4] |
Southwest Conference | Arkansas & Rice | None selected | No Tournament |
Statistical leaders
Post-season tournaments
NCAA tournament
Semifinals & finals
National semifinals | National Finals | ||||||||
Dartmouth | 47 | ||||||||
Kentucky | 28 | ||||||||
Dartmouth | 38 | ||||||||
Stanford | 53 | ||||||||
Stanford | 46 | ||||||||
Colorado | 35 |
National Invitation tournament
Semifinals & finals
Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
West Virginia | 51 | ||||||||
Toledo | 39 | ||||||||
West Virginia | 47 | ||||||||
Western Kentucky State | 45 | ||||||||
Creighton | 36 | ||||||||
Western Kentucky State | 49 |
- Third Place – Creighton 48, Toledo 46
Awards
Consensus All-American teams
Player | Class | Team |
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Price Brookfield | Senior | West Texas State |
Bob Davies | Senior | Seton Hall |
Bob Kinney | Senior | Rice |
John Kotz | Junior | Wisconsin |
Andy Phillip | Sophomore | Illinois |
Player | Class | Team |
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Don Burness | Senior | Stanford |
Gus Doerner | Senior | Evansville |
Bob Doll | Senior | Colorado |
John Mandic | Senior | Oregon State |
Stan Modzelewski | Senior | Rhode Island State |
George Munroe | Junior | Dartmouth |
Major player of the year awards
Other major awards
- NIT/Haggerty Award (Top player in New York City metro area): Jim White, St. John's (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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Bowling Green | Paul Landis | Harold Anderson | ||
DePaul | Bill Wendt | Ray Meyer | ||
Kansas State | Jack Gardner | Chili Cochrane | ||
Toledo | Harold Anderson | Burl Friddle | ||
Yale | Ken Loeffler | Red Rolfe |
References
- ^ 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
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