The 1924–25 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1924, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded in March 1925.
Season headlines
Washburn won the annual Amateur Athletic Union basketball tournament — which included both collegiate and amateur non-collegiate teams — becoming the fourth and final college team to do so. In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Princeton as its national champion for the 1924–25 season. In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Princeton as its top-ranked team for the 1924–25 season.
Conference membership changes SchoolFormer conferenceNew conference Independent Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Pacific Coast Conference Independent Independent Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
Regular season Conferences Conference winners and tournaments
ConferenceRegular season winnerConference player of the yearConference tournamentTournament venue (City)Tournament winnerBig Ten Conference Ohio State None selected No TournamentEastern Intercollegiate Basketball League Princeton None selected No TournamentMissouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association Kansas None selected No TournamentPacific Coast Conference ; No Tournament;California defeated Oregon Agricultural in best-of-three conference championship playoff seriesRocky Mountain Athletic Conference No TournamentSouthern Conference North Carolina None selected 1925 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament Municipal Auditorium(Atlanta, Georgia) North Carolina2008–09 SoCon Men's Basketball Media Guide – Postseason Section , Southern Conference, retrieved 2009-02-09Southwest Conference Oklahoma A&M None selected No Tournament
Conference standings
Independents A total of 97 college teams played as major independents. (15–0) and (20–0) were undefeated, and (26–5) finished with the most wins.
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 1924–25 season.The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"
Player Team Tusten Ackerman Kansas Burgess Carey Kentucky Jack Cobb North Carolina Emanuel Goldblatt Pennsylvania Vic Hanson Syracuse Noble Kizer Notre Dame John Miner Ohio State Earl Mueller Colorado College Gerald Spohn Washburn Carlos Steele Oregon Agricultural
Major player of the year awards
Helms Player of the Year: Earl Mueller, Colorado College (retroactive selection in 1944)
Coaching changes A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended. TeamFormerCoachInterimCoachNewCoachReason Arizona Walter Davis Fred Enke Army Harry A. Fisher Ernest Blood Auburn Herb Bunker Mike Papke Boston University John Williams Win Karlson Bowling Green State Warren Steller Paul Landis Bucknell Moose McCormick Malcolm Musser BYU Alvin Twitchell E. L. Roberts Canisius Russell Burt Luke Urban The Citadel C. F. Myers Locke Brown Colorado Agricultural Harry W. Hughes Rudy Lavik Columbia Joseph H. Deering Daniel Meehan Denver Aubrey Devine Jimmy Middlebrook DePaul Harry Adams Eddie Anderson Detroit John Barrett Gus Dorais Drake Ossie Solem Bill Boelter Fairmount Sam H. Hill Leonard J. Umnus Florida James L. White Brady Cowell George Washington Jack Dailey James Lemon Holy Cross Ken Simendinger John M. Reed Reed also coach the freshman football team. Illinois State Clifford E. Horton Don Karnes Kent State Normal Frank Harsh Merles E. Wagoner Kentucky Clarence Applegram Ray Eklund Lafayette Bill Anderson M. A. Miller Lehigh James A. Baldwin Charles Lingle Louisville Fred Enke Tom King Enke left to coach Arizona. LSU Hugh E. Wilson Harry Rabenhorst Manhattan Ward Brennan Arthur T. Carroll Marshall Russ Meredith Charles Tallman Mississippi A&M K. P. Gatchell Bernie Bierman Nebraska William G. Kline Ernest Bearg North Carolina Monk McDonald Harlan Sanborn North Dakota Agricultural George Dewey Ion Cortright Northern Arizona W. E. Rogers Talbert D. Jessuppe Ole Miss R. L. Sullivan Homer Hazel Rice John Nicholson Franklyn Ashcraft Santa Clara Eddie Kienholz Russell T. Wilson Toledo Darrell Fox Louis Moorhead Tulsa Howard Archer J. B. Miller Utah Thomas M. Fitzpatrick Ike Armstrong Vermont Tom Keady William McAvoy Wake Forest Hank Garrity R. S. Hayes Yale Joe Fogarty George Taylor Fogarty died on August 15, 1925
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