1940–41 NCAA men's basketball season
Men's collegiate basketball season
1940–41 NCAA Division I men's basketball season | |
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NCAA Tournament | 1941 |
Tournament dates | March 21 – 29, 1941 |
National Championship | Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri |
NCAA Champions | Wisconsin |
Helms National Champions | Wisconsin (retroactive selection in 1943) |
Other champions | Long Island (NIT) |
Player of the Year (Helms) | George Glamack, North Carolina (retroactive selection in 1944) |
← 1939–40 1941–42 → |
The 1940–41 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1940, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1941 NCAA basketball tournament championship game on March 29, 1941, at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The Wisconsin Badgers won their first NCAA national championship with a 39–34 victory over the Washington State Cougars.
Season headlines
- The National Invitation Tournament — considered until at least the mid-1950s to be more prestigious than the NCAA tournament — expanded from six to eight teams.
- The National Association of Basketball Coaches turned over operation of the NCAA tournament to the NCAA itself.[1]
- In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Wisconsin as its national champion for the 1940–41 season.[2]
- In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Long Island as its national champion for the 1940–41 season.[3]
Conference membership changes
School | Former conference | New conference |
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Sewanee Tigers | Southeastern Conference | Independent |
Regular season
Conference winners and tournaments
Conference | Regular season winner[4] | Conference player of the year | Conference tournament | Tournament venue (City) | Tournament winner |
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Big Six Conference | Iowa State & Kansas | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Big Ten Conference | Wisconsin | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Border Conference | Did not play as conference | ||||
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League | Dartmouth | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Metropolitan New York Conference | Did not play as conference | ||||
Missouri Valley Conference | Creighton | None selected | No Tournament | ||
New England Conference | Connecticut & Rhode Island State | No Tournament | |||
Pacific Coast Conference | Washington State (North); Stanford (South) | No Tournament; Washington State defeated Stanford in best-of-three conference championship playoff series | |||
Skyline Conference | Wyoming | No Tournament | |||
Southeastern Conference | Tennessee | None selected | 1941 SEC men's basketball tournament | Jefferson County Armory, (Louisville, Kentucky) | Tennessee |
Southern Conference | North Carolina | None selected | 1941 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament | Thompson Gym (Raleigh, North Carolina) | Duke[5] |
Southwest Conference | Arkansas | None selected | No Tournament |
Statistical leaders
Post-season tournaments
NCAA tournament
Semifinals & finals
National semifinals | National Finals | ||||||||
Wisconsin | 36 | ||||||||
Pittsburgh | 30 | ||||||||
Wisconsin | 39 | ||||||||
Washington State | 34 | ||||||||
Arkansas | 53 | ||||||||
Washington State | 64 |
National Invitation tournament
Semifinals & finals
Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
CCNY | 43 | ||||||||
Ohio | 45 | ||||||||
Ohio | 42 | ||||||||
Long Island | 56 | ||||||||
Seton Hall | 26 | ||||||||
Long Island | 49 |
- Third Place – CCNY 42, Seton Hall 27
Awards
Consensus All-American teams
Player | Class | Team |
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John Adams | Senior | Arkansas |
Gus Broberg | Senior | Dartmouth |
Howard Engleman | Senior | Kansas |
Gene Englund | Senior | Wisconsin |
George Glamack | Senior | North Carolina |
Player | Class | Team |
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Frank Baumholtz | Senior | Ohio |
Bob Kinney | Junior | Rice |
Paul Lindemann | Senior | Washington State |
Stan Modzelewski | Junior | Rhode Island State |
Oscar Schectman | Senior | Long Island |
Major player of the year awards
- Helms Player of the Year: George Glamack, North Carolina (retroactive selection in 1944)
Other major awards
- NIT/Haggerty Award (Top player in New York City metro area): Jack Garfinkel, St. John's
Coaching changes
References
- ^ Anonymous, "How the NCAA Overtook Its Rival, the NIT," Sport History Weekly, March 24, 2019 Accessed May 4, 2021
- ^ 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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