1926–27 NCAA men's basketball season

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The 1926–27 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1926, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded in March 1927.

Season headlines[]

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 Michigan None selected No Tournament
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Dartmouth 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 College (Eastern);
Montana State (Western)
No Tournament
Southern Conference South Carolina None selected 1927 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Municipal Auditorium
(Atlanta, Georgia)
Vanderbilt[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 1926–27 season.[5]

Player Team
Creighton
California
Vic Hanson Syracuse
Columbia
Ross McBurney Wichita
Notre Dame
Bennie Oosterbaan Michigan
Washburn
Cat Thompson Montana State
Harry Wilson Army

Major player of the year awards[]

Coaching changes[]

A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.

Team Former
Coach
Interim
Coach
New
Coach
Reason
Georgetown Elmer Ripley O'Reilly retired after the end of the season.[6]
Northwestern Maury Kent Dutch Lonborg

References[]

  1. ^ Scott, Jon (Nov 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved 2015-12-14.
  2. ^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 526, 529–587. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
  3. ^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
  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"
  6. ^ "The Georgetown Basketball History Project: Head Coaches". Archived from the original on 2017-05-27. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
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