1915–16 NCAA men's basketball season

1915–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
Helms National Champions	Wisconsin (retroactive selection in 1943)
Player of the Year (Helms)	George Levis, Wisconsin (retroactive selection in 1944)
← 1914–15 1916–17 →

The 1915–16 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1915, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1916.

Season headlines

The Pacific Coast Conference began play with four original members, three of which fielded basketball teams for the 1915–16 season.
Utah won the post-season Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national championship tournament— in which a mix of collegiate and non-collegiate amateur teams competed — in 1916 to become the first of only four collegiate teams to win the tournament. No college team would win the tournament again until 1920.^[1]
In February 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected Wisconsin as its national champion for the 1915–16 season.^[1]
In 1995, the Premo-Porretta Power Poll retroactively selected Wisconsin as its national champion for the 1915–16 season.^[2]

Conference membership changes

School	Former Conference	New Conference
California Golden Bears	Independent	Pacific Coast Conference
Oregon Webfoots	Independent	No basketball team
Oregon Agricultural Beavers	Independent	Pacific Coast Conference
Washington Huskies	Independent	Pacific Coast Conference

NOTE: Although Oregon joined the Pacific Coast Conference in 1915, it did not field a basketball team during the 1915–16 season.

Regular season

Conference winners

Conference	Regular Season Winner^[3]	Conference Player of the Year	Conference Tournament
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League	Penn	None selected	No Tournament
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Nebraska	None selected	No Tournament
Pacific Coast Conference	California & Oregon Agricultural	None selected	No Tournament
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference	Colorado & Colorado College		No Tournament
Southwest Conference	Texas	None selected	No Tournament
Western Conference	Wisconsin	None selected	No Tournament

Statistical leaders

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 1915–16 season.^[4]

Player	Team
Roy Bohler	Washington State
Bill Chandler	Wisconsin
Cyril Haas	Princeton
George Levis	Wisconsin
Clyde Littlefield	Texas
Edward McNichol	Penn
Dick Romney	Utah
Adolph Sieberts	Oregon Agricultural
Fred Williams	Missouri
Ray Woods	Illinois

Major player of the year awards

Helms Player of the Year: George Levis, Wisconsin (retroactive selection in 1944)

References

^ ^a ^b Scott, Jon (November 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved May 13, 2021.
^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. pp. 526, 529–587. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
^ "2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Record Book – Conferences Section" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
^ The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"

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