1949-50 College Basketball Season Summary

National Champion: City College of New York

Final Four: Baylor, Bradley, CCNY and NC State

Consensus Player of the Year: Paul Arizin

AP Final #1: Bradley

Conference Summary

Conference Summary Table
Rk	Conference	Schls	W	L	W-L%	SRS	SOS	AP	NCAA	FF	Regular Season Champ	Tournament Champ
1	Ohio Valley Conference	1	25	6	.806	14.22	4.87	1	0	0	Western Kentucky	Eastern Kentucky
2	Big Seven Conference	7	93	70	.571	7.94	6.15	2	0	0	Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska
3	Big Ten Conference	10	132	92	.589	7.21	5.18	3	1	0	Ohio State
4	Metropolitan New York Conference	6	91	62	.595	4.33	3.85	1	1	1	City College of New York
5	Western New York Little Three Conference	3	54	20	.730	3.78	4.46	0	0	0	Canisius, Niagara, St. Bonaventure
6	Mountain States Athletic Conference	6	105	94	.528	2.84	2.84	0	1	0	Brigham Young
7	Missouri Valley Conference	7	120	69	.635	2.56	1.91	1	1	1	Bradley
8	Yankee Conference	1	18	8	.692	0.29	0.43	0	0	0	Rhode Island
9	Pacific Coast Conference	9	136	119	.533	0.20	1.58	2	1	0	UCLA (South)
10	Independent	43	607	455	.572	-0.07	1.44	7	1	0
11	Ivy League	7	98	78	.557	-2.04	-1.22	0	0	0	Princeton
12	Southeastern Conference	12	164	126	.566	-3.71	-3.39	1	0	0	Kentucky	Kentucky
13	Southwest Conference	7	80	89	.473	-5.41	-1.81	0	1	1	Arkansas, Baylor
14	Mid-American Conference	6	62	74	.456	-5.80	-1.62	0	0	0	Cincinnati
15	Middle Three Conference	3	35	35	.500	-8.56	-3.74	0	0	0	Lafayette, Rutgers
16	Southern Conference	16	202	201	.501	-12.99	-10.82	1	1	1	North Carolina State	North Carolina State

AP Poll Summary Table
School	1/5	1/9	1/16	1/23	1/30	2/6	2/13	2/20	2/27	Final
Toledo	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	17	-
Siena	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Washington State	-	-	-	-	-	17	16	-	-	18
Louisville	-	-	19	-	15	13	-	-	-	-
Kentucky	2	2	5	4	6	7	5	5	4	3
Nebraska	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	-
Wisconsin	15	-	-	15	17	-	-	-	-	16
UCLA	9	10	9	11	13	12	10	7	6	7
LIU	4	3	3	3	4	6	6	10	14	13
La Salle	18	13	10	7	8	9	11	12	9	10
Saint Louis	11	-	-	-	-	19	18	15	-	-
Western Kentucky	-	14	14	17	14	11	9	8	7	8
USC	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	16	-	-
Washington	-	20	-	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tulane	-	-	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Indiana	5	4	8	9	12	16	-	17	-	20
Oklahoma State	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-
Duquesne	8	8	6	2	2	3	7	4	5	6
NC State	7	9	12	10	9	8	8	9	8	5
Missouri	12	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Illinois	16	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-
Holy Cross	6	5	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	4
San Jose State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	19	17
Wyoming	-	-	-	14	20	-	-	-	18	-
Arizona	-	-	-	-	-	18	17	19	15	15
Ohio State	-	15	11	13	7	4	3	3	2	2
Kansas	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19
Vanderbilt	-	-	-	-	18	-	20	-	20	-
Oklahoma	17	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
St. John's (NY)	1	1	2	5	5	4	4	6	10	9
Bowling Green State	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
CCNY	14	7	7	8	10	14	13	20	-	-
Villanova	13	17	18	19	-	-	15	-	11	11
Kansas State	20	-	13	12	11	10	14	13	12	14
Minnesota	10	11	16	18	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cincinnati	-	12	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tennessee	-	-	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bradley	3	6	4	6	3	2	2	1	1	1
Notre Dame	-	-	-	-	16	-	-	-	-	-
San Francisco	-	-	-	-	-	15	12	11	13	12

Statistical coverage for seasons prior to 1992-93 is mostly complete, however there are a small number of unknown player records.

1949-50 Season Pages