The 1918–19 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1918, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1919.
Season headlines
The 1918–19 season took place between the fall 1918 second surge and spring 1919 third surge of the so-called "Spanish flu" pandemic, forcing some schools to play shortened seasons or cancel their seasons.hoyasaxa.com Basketball In a Pandemic: The 1918-19 Georgetown Varsity Accessed March 1, 2021Dodds, John, "Pandemic: Marquette Had to Cancel Its Basketball Season in 1918–19," 247sports.com, March 13, 2020 Accessed 13 May 2021 Young men leaving school for World War I military service also affected teams. In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Minnesota as its national champion for the 1918–19 season. In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Navy as its top-ranked team for the 1918–19 season.
Conference membership changes SchoolFormer ConferenceNew Conference Independent Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association Southwest Conference Independent Independent Southwest Conference Independent Pacific Coast Conference Independent Pacific Coast Conference
Regular season Conferences Conference winners
ConferenceRegular Season WinnerConference Player of the YearConference TournamentTournament Venue (City)Tournament WinnerBig Ten Conference Minnesota None selected No TournamentEastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Penn None selected No TournamentMissouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association Kansas State None selected No TournamentPacific Coast Conference Oregon No TournamentRocky Mountain Athletic Conference Colorado No TournamentSouthwest Conference Texas None selected No Tournament
Conference standings
Independents A total of 122 college teams played as major independents. Among independents that played at least 10 games, (14–0), (11–0), (14–0), Navy (16–0), and (12–0) were undefeated, and (24–5) finished with the most wins.
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 1918–19 season.The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"
Player Team Lance Farwell Navy Tony Hinkle Chicago Dutch Lonborg Kansas Leon Marcus Syracuse Dan McNichol Penn Arnold Oss Minnesota George Parrish Virginia Tech Erling Platou Minnesota Craig Ruby Missouri Andrew Stannard Penn
Major player of the year awards
Helms Player of the Year: Erling Platou, Minnesota (retroactive selection in 1944)
Coaching changes A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended. TeamFormerCoachInterimCoachNewCoachReason Alabama Yancey Goodall Bill Moore Army Ivens Jones Joseph O'Shea Bradley Harold Olsen Fred Brown Brown Louis Pieri Ed Freeman Bucknell Haps Benfer Malcolm Musser Butler Joe Mullane F. E. Ellis Central Missouri Phog Allen William N. Greim Allen left to coach at Kansas. Clemson Edward Donahue Country Morris Colgate Walt Hammond William Reid Columbia Fred Dawson Claus Benson Connecticut John F. Donahue Ross Swartz Cornell Albert Sharpe Howard Ortner Sharpe left to coach Yale and be the athletic director and football coach. Dayton Al Mahrt Harry Solimano Denver Charles Wingender George Koonsman Detroit Royal R. Campbell James M. Brown Fordham Edward Siskind Arthur Devlin Georgia Kennon Mott Herman Stegeman Idaho Wilfred C. Bleamaster Ralph Hutchinson Indiana Dana Evans Ewald O. Stiehm Iowa Edwin Bannick James N. Ashmore Iowa State H. H. Walters Punk Berryman Kansas W. O. Hamilton Phog Allen Kentucky Thomas Andrew Gill George Buchheit Lafayette Bill Anderson William McAvoy Lehigh Roy Geary J. Murphy Louisiana State R. E. Edmonds Charles C. Stroud Louisville Earl Ford Tuley Brucker Miami (Ohio) George Rider George Little Michigan Elmer Mitchell E. J. Mather Missouri John F. Miller Walter Meanwell Montana State Fred Bennion Walter D. Powell NC State Tal Stafford Richard Crozier Nebraska E. J. Stewart Paul J. Schissler Nevada Silas Ross Ray Courtright New Mexico John F. McGough Roy W. Johnson Niagara John O'Shea John F. Blake North Carolina Howell Peacock Fred Boye North Dakota Harry Caldwell Phil J. Davis North Dakota Agricultural Curly Movold Stanley Borleske Northern Colorado Ralph Glaze William E. Search Northwestern Tom Robinson J. Norman Elliott Notre Dame Jesse Harper Gus Dorais Ohio State Lynn St. John George Trautman Oklahoma A&M Earl A. Pritchard Jim Pixlee Ole Miss Dudy Noble R. L. Sullivan Rhode Island State Mysterious Walker Fred Murray Rice Wilbur Tisdale Leslie Mann Richmond Robert C. Marshall Frank Dobson Saint Joseph's John Donahue John Lavin Santa Clara Norbert Keefe Robert E. Harmon Southern California Motts Blair Gus Henderson Tennessee R. H. Fitzgerald John R. Bender Texas Roy Henderson Berry Whitaker Toledo Sam Monetta Watt Hobt Trinity (N.C.) Henry Cole Walter Rothensies Utah State Joseph Jensen Dick Romney Valparaiso Sidney Winters George Keogan Vanderbilt Ray Morrison Guy T. Denton VMI Earl Abell Pinky Spruhan Wake Forest Irving E. Carlyle Bill Holding West Virginia H. P. Mullenex Francis Stadsvold Yale Walter Mace Albert Sharpe
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