American college basketball season
The 1936–37 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1936–37 season. Under the third year of head coach Tom Dowler , the team finished the season 0–18, 0–13 in Southern Conference play. This was the 32nd season of the collegiate basketball program at William & Mary, whose nickname is now the Tribe .[ 1] As of 2019, this has remained William & Mary men's basketball's worst single season record and winning percentage and its only winless season.
After playing as an independent for the previous 31 seasons, this was William & Mary's first season as members of the Southern Conference . They finished in 16th place and did not quality for the 1937 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament in Raleigh, North Carolina .
Schedule
Date time, TV
Rank#
Opponent#
Result
Record
Site city, state
Regular season
at NC State
L 21–49
0–1 (0–1)
Thompson Gym Raleigh, NC
at Wake Forest
L 29–49
0–2 (0–2)
Gore Gymnasium Wake Forest, NC
at Virginia
L 30–33
0–3 (0–3)
Memorial Gymnasium Charlottesville, VA
at VPI
L 29–36
0–4 (0–4)
War Memorial Gymnasium Blacksburg, VA
at Washington and Lee
L 15–64
0–5 (0–5)
Doremus Gymnasium Lexington, VA
at VMI
L 39–42
0–6 (0–6)
Cormack Field House Lexington, VA
*
at Roanoke
L 39–48
0–7
Roanoke, VA
Wake Forest
L 25–61
0–8 (0–7)
Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA
VPI
L 30–38
0–9 (0–8)
Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA
2/4/1937
Richmond
L 22–48
0–10 (0–9)
Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA
*
Roanoke College
L 21–40
0–11
Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA
2/9/1937 *
at Maryland
L 29–41
0–12
Ritchie Coliseum College Park, MD
2/10/1937 *
at Navy
W 26–25
0–13
Dahlgren Hall Annapolis, MD
*
Randolph–Macon
L 27–58
0–14
Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA
2/17/1937
at Richmond
L 21–40
0–15 (0–10)
Millhiser Gymnasium Richmond, VA
VMI
L 26–49
0–16 (0–11)
Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA
NC State
L 20–58
0–17 (0–12)
Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA
Virginia
L 21–52
0–18 (0–13)
Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA
*Non-conference game.
# Rankings from
AP Poll . (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
Source [ 2]
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