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1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season

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

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). 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.


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.



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