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1923–24 NCAA men's basketball season

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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

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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

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Conference membership changes

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School Former conference New conference
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

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Conferences

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Conference winners and tournaments

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Conference Regular
season winner[6]
Conference
player of the year
Conference
tournament
Tournament
venue (City)
Tournament
winner
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 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

Conference standings

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1923–24 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Wisconsin 8 4   .667 11 5   .688
Chicago 8 4   .667 11 6   .647
Illinois 8 4   .667 11 6   .647
Ohio State 7 5   .583 12 5   .706
Purdue 7 5   .583 12 5   .706
Indiana 7 5   .583 11 6   .647
Michigan 6 6   .500 10 7   .588
Minnesota 5 7   .417 9 8   .529
Iowa 4 8   .333 7 10   .412
Northwestern 0 12   .000 0 16   .000
1923–24 Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Cornell 8 2   .800 13 3   .813
Columbia 6 4   .600 15 4   .789
Princeton 6 4   .600 11 6   .647
Dartmouth 4 6   .400 12 9   .571
Penn 3 7   .300 18 8   .692
Yale 3 7   .300 12 10   .545
1923–24 Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Kansas 15 1   .938 16 3   .842
Oklahoma 13 3   .813 15 3   .833
Nebraska 10 6   .625 11 7   .611
Washington University 8 8   .500 10 9   .526
Drake 8 8   .500 9 9   .500
Kansas State 8 8   .500 8 8   .500
Grinnell 4 12   .250 4 14   .222
Missouri 4 12   .250 4 14   .222
Iowa State 2 14   .125 2 16   .111
1923–24 Pacific Coast Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
North
Washington 7 2   .778 12 4   .750
Oregon Agricultural 6 2   .750 20 5   .800
Oregon 4 4   .500 15 5   .750
Idaho 4 6   .400 23 11   .676
Washington State 3 7   .300 17 11   .607
Montana 1 4   .200 7 8   .467
South
California 5 3   .625 14 4   .778
USC 4 4   .500 15 4   .789
Stanford 3 5   .375 10 5   .667
† Conference playoff series winner
As of 1924[8]
1923–24 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Colorado
Colorado College 9 1   .900 15 2   .882
Colorado Mines 8 4   .667 8 4   .667
Colorado Agricultural 6 4   .600 6 5   .545
Colorado 3 5   .375 4 7   .364
Denver 3 7   .300 3 8   .273
Wyoming 1 7   .125 2 13   .133
Utah
BYU 7 1   .875 14 4   .778
Utah Agricultural 3 5   .375 6 6   .500
Utah 2 6   .250 2 6   .250
† Conference championship winner
1923–24 Southern Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Tulane 10 0   1.000 21 1   .955
North Carolina 7 0   1.000 26 0   1.000
Georgia 7 0   1.000 16 5   .762
Alabama 5 1   .833 12 4   .750
Kentucky 6 2   .750 13 3   .813
Mississippi A&M 8 4   .667 13 8   .619
Virginia 3 2   .600 12 3   .800
Tennessee 5 5   .500 10 8   .556
South Carolina 2 2   .500 11 9   .550
Georgia Tech 4 5   .444 9 13   .409
Mississippi 2 4   .333 16 6   .727
Washington and Lee 2 4   .333 9 5   .643
NC State 2 4   .333 7 16   .304
Maryland 1 2   .333 5 7   .417
Vanderbilt 1 3   .250 7 15   .318
Florida 0 2   .000 5 10   .333
Sewanee 0 2   .000 2 7   .222
Virginia Tech 0 4   .000 5 13   .278
Auburn 0 6   .000 4 9   .308
Clemson 0 6   .000 2 14   .125
LSU 0 7   .000 8 12   .400
Southern Conference Tournament winner
1923–24 Southwest Conference men's basketball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Texas 20 0   1.000 23 0   1.000
TCU 15 4   .789 16 4   .800
Texas A&M 13 10   .565 13 10   .565
Oklahoma A&M 9 5   .643 14 6   .700
Baylor 7 17   .292 11 23   .324
SMU 7 15   .318 9 15   .375
Arkansas 3 9   .250 17 11   .607
Rice 3 17   .150 3 17   .150

Independents

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A total of 99 college teams played as major independents. Beloit (14–0) and Carleton (15–0) were undefeated, and Valparaiso (24–4) finished with the most wins.[9]

1923–24 NCAA men's basketball independents standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Beloit   14 0   1.000
Carleton   15 0   1.000
Franklin   19 1   .950
CCNY   12 1   .923
Mount Union   12 1   .923
Rensselaer   11 1   .917
Army   16 2   .889
Canisius   8 1   .889
Vermont   15 2   .882
West Virginia   14 2   .875
Montana State   20 3   .870
Creighton   13 2   .867
Penn State   13 2   .867
Valparaiso   24 4   .857
Navy   15 3   .833
Arizona   14 3   .824
DePauw   13 3   .813
Springfield (Mass.)   13 3   .813
West Texas State   13 3   .813
Denison   12 3   .800
Lehigh   12 3   .800
Saint Louis   8 2   .800
Saint Mary's (Calif.)   12 3   .800
UCLA   8 2   .800
St. Ignatius   14 4   .778
Washburn   13 4   .765
Xavier   13 4   .765
Ohio   16 5   .762
Trinity (N.C.)   19 6   .760
Temple   15 5   .750
Richmond   14 5   .737
Wake Forest   18 7   .720
Grove City   15 6   .714
St. Bonaventure   7 3   .700
Indiana State   16 7   .696
North Dakota Agricultural   16 7   .696
Muhlenberg   11 5   .688
Colgate   13 6   .684
Georgetown   6 3   .667
Northern Colorado   10 5   .667
Rutgers   8 4   .667
Saint Francis (N.Y.)   18 9   .667
Tulsa   2 1   .667
Villanova   14 7   .667
Washington College   12 6   .667
Notre Dame   15 8   .652
Dayton   9 5   .643
Butler   12 7   .632
New Mexico   5 3   .625
Union (N.Y.)   10 6   .625
Western State Normal   13 8   .619
Fordham   12 8   .600
Rhode Island State   9 6   .600
Pittsburgh   10 7   .588
Cincinnati   11 8   .579
Harvard   11 8   .579
DePaul   8 6   .571
Duquesne   8 6   .571
Manhattan   12 9   .571
VMI   8 6   .571
Buffalo   7 6   .538
Marshall   8 7   .533
Detroit   9 8   .529
Davidson   10 9   .526
New Mexico A&M   10 9   .526
Bradley   11 10   .524
St. John's (N.Y.)   16 15   .516
Furman   7 7   .500
Marquette   10 10   .500
Michigan Agricultural   10 10   .500
New York University   8 8   .500
Northern Arizona Normal   7 7   .500
St. Joseph's   9 9   .500
Toledo   5 5   .500
Western Kentucky State   9 9   .500
Niagara   9 10   .474
Seton Hall   6 7   .462
Fairmount   10 12   .455
Loyola (Md.)   8 10   .444
Syracuse   8 10   .444
Loyola (Ill.)   8 11   .421
Brown   7 12   .368
Holy Cross   5 9   .357
Connecticut   4 8   .333
Wabash   4 8   .333
William & Mary   8 16   .333
Kent State Normal   4 9   .308
Lafayette   6 14   .300
Wooster   4 10   .286
Tempe Normal   3 9   .250
Louisville   4 13   .235
Texas State M&M   3 10   .231
The Citadel   2 8   .200
Western State   1 4   .200
Miami (Ohio)   2 9   .182
Bowling Green State   3 15   .167
Bucknell   1 5   .167
George Washington   1 9   .100
Santa Clara   1 9   .100

Statistical leaders

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Awards

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Helms College Basketball All-Americans

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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.[10]

Player Team
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

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Coaching changes

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

Team Former
Coach
Interim
Coach
New
Coach
Reason
Indiana Leslie Mann Everett Dean
Marshall Bill Strickling Russ Meredith

References

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  1. ^ orangehoops.org History of NCAA Basketball Rule Changes
  2. ^ Schleyer, Claudia, "The Rules of Basketball: Boy How They've Changed!", Youth Hoops 101 Accessed 15 May 2021
  3. ^ "1923-24 UNC Tar Heels Roster and Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  4. ^ a b Scott, Jon (November 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
  7. ^ 2008–09 SoCon Men's Basketball Media Guide – Postseason Section, Southern Conference, retrieved 2009-02-09
  8. ^ "2017-18 Men's Basketball Media Guide". Pac-12 Conference. p. 72. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  9. ^ "1923-24 Men's Independent Season Summary". Sports Reference. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
  10. ^ The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"