Eastern Intercollegiate Conference should not be confused with Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League.
Eastern Intercollegiate Conference | |
Color: | Yellow |
Founded: | 1932 |
Dissolved: | 1939 |
Association: | NCAA |
Division: | Division I (post-1973 equivalent) |
Teams: | 5 (1932-33 and 1934-35) 6 (1933-34; 1935-36 through 1938-39) |
Sports: | College basketball |
Map: | Eastern Intercollegiate Conference map.PNG |
Map Size: | 250 |
The Eastern Intercollegiate Conference (EIC) was an athletic conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. The conference sponsored men's college basketball and existed from 1932 to 1939, with teams in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
The 1937–1938 conference champion, Temple, went on to win the 1938 National Invitation Tournament.[1]
Although the Associated Press described the conference as "one of the best in the nation,"[2] its members agreed to disband it at the end of the 1938–1939 season because geographical problems had made scheduling difficult.[2]
Over its seven seasons of existence, the conferences membership varied between five and six schools each season.[3]
Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Joined | Left | Current conference | |
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Carnegie Institute of Technology | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 1900 | Nonsectarian | 10,875 | Tartans | 1932 | University (UAA) | ||
Georgetown University | Washington, D.C. | 1789 | Catholic | 19,371 | Hoyas | 1932 | 1939 | Big East | |
Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania | 1855 | Public | 45,901 | Nittany Lions | 1935 | 1939 | Big Ten (B1G) | |
University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 1787 | Public | 28,664 | Panthers | 1932 | 1939 | Atlantic Coast (ACC) | |
Temple University | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1884 | State related | 39,755 | Owls | 1932 | 1939 | The American | |
West Virginia University | Morgantown, West Virginia | 1867 | Public | 26,839 | Mountaineers | 1932 | 1939 | Big 12 |
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The conference championships were determined by the best regular season conference records except in the event of teams having identical conference records. In the case of such ties, the conference championship was decided by a one-game playoff championship game at the conclusion of the regular conference season. Conference championships were decided by this playoff game in 1935, 1936, and 1937. However, following the 1938–1939 season, no playoff game was held despite identical records held by Carnegie Tech and Georgetown, and the two schools were declared co-champions for the season.
Pittsburgh dominated the conference results with four championships in the conferences seven seasons, winning the first two seasons by having the best regular-season record and winning championship playoff games in 1935 and 1937, but losing the 1936 championship playoff game.[3]
* Conference title decided by a playoff game
** No playoff game held. The two teams were declared co-champions based on identical regular-season conference records.
During the 1937–1938 season, Carnegie Tech′s Melvin Cratsley set the league′s single-game scoring record in men's basketball with 34 points against West Virginia. He scored 12 field goals during the game, ten of them on tip-ins or by shooting from directly beneath the hoop and the other two on set shots from inside the free throw line.[1]
Each team played each other team in the conference twice each season in a home-and-home schedule except for the 1933–1934 season, when Bucknell, Carnegie Tech, and Pittsburgh did not play a complete 10-game home-and-home schedule for the season.
1932-33[4] | Conference | Overall | ||||
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W-L | Pct. | GB | W-L | Pct. | ||
Pittsburgh | 7–1 | .875 | – | 17–5 | .773 | |
Temple | 5–3 | .625 | 2 | 15–6 | .714 | |
Carnegie Tech | 4–4 | .500 | 3 | 4–5 | .444 | |
Georgetown | 3–5 | .375 | 4 | 6–11 | .353 | |
West Virginia | 1–7 | .125 | 6 | 10–14 | .417 |
1933-34[5] | Conference | Overall | ||||
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W-L | Pct. | GB | W-L | Pct. | ||
Pittsburgh | 8–0 | 1.000 | – | 18–4 | .818 | |
West Virginia | 7–3 | .700 | 2 | 14–5 | .737 | |
Georgetown | 5–5 | .500 | 4 | 12–11 | .522 | |
Temple | 5–5 | .500 | 4 | 9–12 | .429 | |
Carnegie Tech | 2–7 | .222 | 6½ | 1–8 | .111 | |
Bucknell | 0–7 | .000 | 7½ | 2–16 | .111 |
1934-35[6] | Conference | Overall | ||||
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W-L | Pct. | GB | W-L | Pct. | ||
Pittsburgh* | 6–2 | .750 | – | 18–6 | .750 | |
West Virginia* | 6–2 | .750 | – | 16–6 | .727 | |
Temple | 5–3 | .625 | 1 | 17–7 | .708 | |
Carnegie Tech | 2–6 | .250 | 4 | 3–6 | .333 | |
Georgetown | 1–7 | .125 | 5 | 6–13 | .316 |
*Conference playoff championship game, March 18, 1935, in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Pittsburgh 35, West Virginia 22[7]
1935-36[8] | Conference | Overall | ||||
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W-L | Pct. | GB | W-L | Pct. | ||
Carnegie Tech* | 7–3 | .700 | – | 8–3 | .727 | |
Pittsburgh* | 7–3 | .700 | – | 18–9 | .667 | |
Temple | 6–4 | .600 | 1 | 18–6 | .750 | |
West Virginia | 6–4 | .600 | 1 | 16–8 | .667 | |
Georgetown | 4–6 | .400 | 3 | 7–11 | .389 | |
Penn State | 0–10 | .000 | 7 | 6–11 | .353 |
*Conference playoff championship game, March 14, 1936, at Pitt Stadium Pavilion, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Carnegie Tech 32, Pittsburgh 27[9]
1936-37[10] | Conference | Overall | ||||
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W-L | Pct. | GB | W-L | Pct. | ||
Temple* | 7–3 | .700 | – | 17–6 | .739 | |
Pittsburgh* | 7–3 | .700 | – | 14–7 | .667 | |
Penn State | 6–4 | .600 | 1 | 10–7 | .588 | |
Carnegie Tech | 4–6 | .400 | 3 | 9–11 | .450 | |
Georgetown | 3–7 | .300 | 4 | 9–8 | .529 | |
West Virginia | 3–7 | .300 | 4 | 9–14 | .391 |
*Conference playoff championship game, March 22, 1937, at Philadelphia Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh 35, Temple 29[7]
1937-38[11] | Conference | Overall | ||||
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W-L | Pct. | GB | W-L | Pct. | ||
Temple | 9–1 | .900 | – | 23–2 | .920 | |
Penn State | 6–4 | .600 | 3 | 13–5 | .722 | |
Pittsburgh | 5–5 | .500 | 4 | 9–12 | .429 | |
Georgetown | 5–5 | .500 | 4 | 7–11 | .389 | |
Carnegie Tech | 3–7 | .300 | 6 | 3–7 | .300 | |
West Virginia | 2–8 | .200 | 7 | 6–13 | .316 |
1938-39[12] | Conference | Overall | ||||
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W-L | Pct. | GB | W-L | Pct. | ||
Carnegie Tech* | 6–4 | .600 | – | 12–7 | .632 | |
Georgetown | 6–4 | .600 | – | 13–9 | .591 | |
Penn State | 5–5 | .500 | 1 | 13–10 | .565 | |
Pittsburgh | 5–5 | .500 | 1 | 10–8 | .556 | |
West Virginia | 4–6 | .400 | 2 | 10–9 | .526 | |
Temple | 4–6 | .400 | 2 | 10–12 | .455 |
*No conference championship playoff game was held, so Carnegie Tech and Georgetown finished as co-champions.
Eastern Intercollegiate Conference Team Results during conference membership[13] | |||||||||
Team | Sea- sons | Years | EIC Record* | EIC Winning Pct. | EIC Champion- ships | Overall Record | Overall Winning Pct. | Postseason** | |
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Bucknell | N/A | ||||||||
1–0 in EIC playoff games | |||||||||
Georgetown | none | ||||||||
Penn State | none | ||||||||
Pittsburgh | 2–1 in EIC playoff games | ||||||||
Temple | 0–1 in EIC playoff games; Won 1938 NIT | ||||||||
West Virginia | 0–1 in EIC playoff games | ||||||||
Totals | One NIT championship |
Eleven men served as head coaches of EIC teams during the conference's seven seasons of play. Only three of them — Pittsburgh's Doc Carlson, Carnegie Tech's Max E. Hannum, and Temple's James Usilton — coached their teams throughout the EIC's existence.
Eastern Intercollegiate Conference Head Coaches during Eastern Intercollegiate Conference membership[14] | ||||||||||
Coach | Team | Sea- sons | Years | Confer- ence Record* | EIC Winning Pct. | EIC Champion- ships | Overall Record | Overall Winning Pct. | Postseason** | |
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Pittsburgh | 2–1 in EIC playoff games | |||||||||
0–1 in EIC playoff games | ||||||||||
1–0 in EIC playoff games | ||||||||||
Penn State | none | |||||||||
Penn State | N/A | |||||||||
Georgetown | none | |||||||||
Bucknell | N/A | |||||||||
West Virginia | none | |||||||||
Georgetown | none | |||||||||
West Virginia | N/A | |||||||||
Temple | 0–1 in EIC playoff games; |