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1949-50 Men's College Basketball Season Summary

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National Champion: City College of New York

Final Four: Baylor, Bradley, CCNY and NC State

Consensus Player of the Year: Paul Arizin

AP First #1: St. John's (NY)

AP Final #1: Bradley

Conference Summary

Sorted by SRS

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

Award Winners

Consensus All-America Teams

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

Season Leaders

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