1923–24 NCAA men's basketball season
The 1923–24 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1923, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded in March 1924.
1923–24 NCAA men's basketball season | |
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Helms National Champions | North Carolina (retroactive selection in 1943) |
Player of the Year (Helms) | Charlie T. Black, Kansas (retroactive selection in 1944) |
Rule changes
A new rule required the player who was fouled to shoot his own free throws. Previously, a team could pick any player it wanted to shoot its free throws, and usually picked its best free-throw shooter to shoot all of them. The new rule thus brought to an end the practice of a team having a designated free-throw shooter.[1][2]
Season headlines
- Butler won the annual Amateur Athletic Union basketball tournament — which included both collegiate and amateur non-collegiate teams — becoming the third of only four college teams to do so and the first to win the tournament since 1920.[3]
- In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected North Carolina as its national champion for the 1923–24 season.[3]
- In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected North Carolina as its national champion for the 1923–24 season.[4]
Conference membership changes
School | Former Conference | New Conference |
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Arkansas Razorbacks | Non-major basketball program | Southwest Conference |
Maryland Terrapins | Non-major basketball program | Southern Conference |
Sewanee Tigers | Independent | Southern Conference |
TCU Horned Frogs | Independent | Southwest Conference |
Western State Mountaineers | Non-major basketball program | Independent |
Regular season
Conference winners and tournaments
Conference | Regular Season Winner[5] |
Conference Player of the Year |
Conference Tournament |
Tournament Venue (City) |
Tournament Winner |
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Big Ten Conference | Chicago, Illinois, & Wisconsin | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League | Cornell | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Kansas | None selected | No Tournament | ||
Pacific Coast Conference | Washington (North); California (South) | No Tournament; California defeated Washington in best-of-three conference championship playoff series | |||
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference | Colorado College (Colorado); BYU (Utah) | No Tournament; Colorado College was deemed conference champion | |||
Southern Conference | Tulane | None selected | 1924 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament | Municipal Auditorium (Atlanta, Georgia) | North Carolina[6] |
Southwest Conference | Texas | None selected | No Tournament |
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 1923–24 season.[7]
Player | Team |
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Tusten Ackerman | Kansas |
Charlie T. Black | Kansas |
Cartwright Carmichael | North Carolina |
Jack Cobb | North Carolina |
Abb Curtis | Texas |
Amory Gill | Oregon Agricultural |
Harry Kipke | Michigan |
Hugh Latham | Oregon |
James Lovley | Creighton |
H. W. Middlesworth | Butler |
Major player of the year awards
- Helms Player of the Year: Charlie T. Black, Kansas (retroactive selection in 1944)
Coaching changes
A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.
Team | Former Coach |
Interim Coach |
New Coach |
Reason |
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Indiana | Leslie Mann | Everett Dean | ||
References
- orangehoops.org History of NCAA Basketball Rule Changes
- Schleyer, Claudia, "The Rules of Basketball: Boy How They've Changed!", Youth Hoops 101 Accessed 15 May 2021
- Scott, Jon (Nov 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved 2015-12-14.
- ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 526, 529–587. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- 2008–09 SoCon Men's Basketball Media Guide – Postseason Section, Southern Conference, retrieved 2009-02-09
- The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"