1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season

Helms National Champions

Penn Quakers

Player of the Year
(Helms)

Howard Cann, NYU

NCAA Division I basketball seasons

«1918–19

1920–21»

Season headlines

This seasons predates the creation of the NIT (1938) and the NCAA tournament (1939).

Penn defeated Chicago in a national championship playoff, 2 games to 1 (24-28, 29-18, 23-21).^[1] The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively nominated Pennsylvania as the best team of the year.

NYU won the post-season Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national championship tournament by defeating Rutgers, 49-24. NYU was led by the Helms Athletic Foundation's Player of the Year, Howard Cann.

Regular season

Conference winners and tournaments

Conference	Regular Season Winner^[2]	Conference Player of the Year	Conference Tournament
Eastern Intercollegiate League	None^[a]	None Selected	No Tournament
Missouri Valley Conference	Missouri	None Selected	No Tournament
Pacific Coast Conference	Stanford	None Selected	No Tournament
Southwest Conference	Texas A&M	None Selected	No Tournament
Western Conference	Chicago	None Selected	No Tournament

Conference standings

1919–20 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Chicago	10	–	2	.833	14	–	4	.778
Purdue	8	–	2	.800	16	–	4	.800
Illinois	8	–	4	.667	9	–	4	.692
Indiana	6	–	4	.600	13	–	8	.619
Wisconsin	7	–	5	.583	15	–	5	.750
Iowa	6	–	6	.500	9	–	10	.474
Ohio State	3	–	9	.250	17	–	10	.630
Minnesota	3	–	9	.250	7	–	9	.438
Michigan	3	–	9	.250	10	–	13	.435
Northwestern	2	–	6	.250	2	–	6	.250

Rankings from AP Poll

1919–20 Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Missouri	17	–	1	.944	17	–	1	.944
Washington University	11	–	5	.688	13	–	5	.722
Kansas	9	–	7	.563	11	–	7	.611
Kansas State	8	–	8	.500	10	–	8	.556
Oklahoma	3	–	7	.300	9	–	7	.563
Drake	3	–	7	.300	12	–	11	.522
Iowa State	2	–	10	.167	6	–	12	.333
Grinnell	1	–	9	.100	4	–	10	.286

Rankings from AP Poll

1919–20 Pacific Coast Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Stanford	9	–	1	.900	8	–	3	.727
California	5	–	5	.500	8	–	5	.615
Washington State	6	–	5	.545	10	–	11	.476
Oregon State	5	–	7	.417	7	–	12	.368
Washington	5	–	7	.417	7	–	8	.467
Oregon	5	–	8	.385	8	–	9	.471

Rankings from AP Poll

1919–20 Southwest Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Texas A&M	16	–	0	1.000	19	–	0	1.000
Phillips	2	–	1	.667	0	–	0	–
Texas	4	–	6	.400	10	–	6	.625
Rice	2	–	5	.286	5	–	6	.455
SMU	2	–	8	.200	4	–	9	.308
Baylor	1	–	7	.125	8	–	13	.381

Rankings from AP Poll

Award winners

Helms All-American team

Player	Team
Howard Cann	New York University
Charles Carney	Illinois
Erving Cook	Washington
Forrest DeBernardi	Westminster
George Gardner	Southwestern
Tony Hinkle	Chicago
Dan McNichol	Pennsylvania
Hubert Peck	Pennsylvania
George Sweeney	Pennsylvania
George Williams	Missouri

Major player of the year awards

Helms Foundation Player of the Year: Howard Cann, NYU

Premo-Porretta Poll

The first official college basketball poll appeared during the 1948–49 season. St. Bonaventure University accounting professor Patrick M. Premo and computer programmer Phil Porretta researched teams before that year, back to the 1895–96 season, and released their retroactive annual rankings as the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. The polls were compiled by reviewing results, opponents and margins of victory.^[3]

1920 Premo-Porretta Poll
Ranking	Team
1	Penn (22–1)
2	Missouri (17–1)
3	NYU (16–1)
4	Penn State (12–1)
5	Texas A&M (19–0)
6	Georgetown (13–1)
7	Purdue (16–4)
8	Chicago (27–8)
9	Delaware (13–2)
10	Southwestern (20–0)
11	Navy (14–3)
12	VMI (11–1)
13	Westminster (17–0)
14	Army (12–2)
15	Montana State (13–0)
16	Nebraska (22–2)
17	Buffalo (9–1)
18	Syracuse (15–3)
19	DePauw (13–3)
20	Nevada (7–2)
21	North Dakota (16–0)
22	CCNY (13–3)
23	Millikin (24–1)
24	Stevens Tech (12–3)
25	Worcester Polytechnic (14–2)

Notes

^a Dartmouth was unable to field a team, so conference play was informal and no official champion was declared. However, had a champion been named, Penn would have won it with a 7–1 conference record.^[4]

References

↑ 2009-10 Penn Men’s Basketball Media Guide (PDF). p. 93. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
↑ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
↑ editors of ESPN (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia. Ballantine Books. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
↑ ESPN Editors (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: Random House, Inc. p. 534. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.

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