1960–61 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team

1960–61 William & Mary Indians men's basketball
Conference	Southern Conference
Record	14–10 (9–6 SoCon)
Head coach	Bill Chambers (4th season)
MVP	Jeff Cohen
Home arena	Blow Gymnasium Norfolk Municipal Auditorium (one game)

1960–61 Southern Conference men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 9 West Virginia	11	–	1		.917			23	–	4		.852
Virginia Tech	12	–	3		.800			15	–	7		.682
The Citadel	10	–	3		.769			17	–	8		.680
William & Mary	9	–	6		.600			14	–	10		.583
Furman	6	–	7		.462			15	–	11		.577
Richmond	5	–	11		.313			9	–	14		.391
George Washington †	3	–	9		.250			9	–	17		.346
VMI	3	–	11		.214			5	–	17		.227
Davidson	2	–	10		.167			9	–	14		.391
† Southern Conference Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

The 1960–61 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1960–61 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. Under the fourth year of head coach Bill Chambers, the team finished the season 14–10 and 9–6 in the Southern Conference.

William & Mary played its home games at Blow Gymnasium with one home game played at the Norfolk Municipal Auditorium in Norfolk, Virginia. This was the 56th season of the collegiate basketball program at William & Mary, whose nickname is now the Tribe.^[1]

The Indians finished in 4th place in the conference and qualified for the 1961 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament, held at the Richmond Arena. William & Mary defeated fifth-seed Furman in the quarterfinals and top-seeded, and #8 in the country, West Virginia in the semifinals before falling to seventh-seed George Washington in the championship game.

The Indians did not participate in a post-season tournament.

Program notes

• Jeff Cohen was named the Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, the first ever conference player of the year award for a William & Mary player. The only other players to be named conference players of the year (SoCon, ECAC South, or CAA) have been Tom Jasper in 1970–71 and Marcus Thornton in 2014–15.
• William & Mary's appearance in the Southern Conference championship game would be the second of nine such appearances (the others came in 1959, 1965, 1975, 1983, 2008, 2010, 2014, and 2015). Each of these games were also losses.

Schedule

Date time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site city, state
Regular season
*		Hampden–Sydney	W 113–75	1–0	Blow Gymnasium  Williamsburg, VA
December 3		at West Virginia	L 72–74	1–1 (0–1)	Stansbury Hall  Morgantown, WV
December 5*		at Tennessee	L 76–83	1–2	University of Tennessee Armory–Fieldhouse  Knoxville, TN
December 10		VMI	W 66–58	2–2 (1–1)	Blow Gymnasium  Williamsburg, VA
December 14		at George Washington	W 61–57	3–2 (2–1)	Fort Myer Gymnasium  Fort Myer, VA
December 17		Davidson	W 54–49	4–2 (3–1)	Blow Gymnasium  Williamsburg, VA
December 20*		Virginia	W 80–50	5–2	Memorial Gymnasium  Charlottesville, VA
December 29*		vs. Virginia UR Invitational	W 91–75	6–2	Richmond Arena  Richmond, VA
December 30*		at Richmond UR Invitational	L 87–101	6–3	Richmond Arena  Richmond, VA
January 3		at Furman	L 56–78	6–4 (3–2)	Greenville Memorial Auditorium  Greenville, SC
January 4		at Davidson	L 45–54	6–5 (3–3)	Johnston Gym  Davidson, NC
January 7		at Richmond	W 63–60	7–5 (4–3)	Richmond Arena  Richmond, VA
January 10		The Citadel	L 63–64	7–6 (4–4)	Blow Gymnasium  Williamsburg, VA
January 14		VPI	W 74–60	8–6 (5–4)	Blow Gymnasium  Williamsburg, VA
January 28		vs. West Virginia	L 69–76	8–7 (5–5)	Norfolk Municipal Auditorium  Norfolk, VA
February 1		Furman	W 65–57	9–7 (6–5)	Blow Gymnasium  Williamsburg, VA
February 8*		at Navy	L 69–76	9–8	Dahlgren Hall  Annapolis, MD
February 11		George Washington	W 85–80	10–8 (7–5)	Blow Gymnasium  Williamsburg, VA
February 14		at VPI	L 67–85	10–9 (7–6)	War Memorial Gymnasium  Blacksburg, VA
February 17		at VMI	W 86–77	11–9 (8–6)	Cormack Field House  Lexington, VA
February 25		Richmond	W 105–84	12–9 (9–6)	Blow Gymnasium  Williamsburg, VA
1961 Southern Conference Basketball Tournament
March 2		at (5) Furman Quarterfinals	W 86–84 ^3OT	13–9	Richmond Arena  Richmond, VA
March 3		vs. No. 8 (1) West Virginia Semifinals	W 88–76	14–9	Richmond Arena  Richmond, VA
March 4		vs. (7) George Washington Championship	L 82–93	14–10	Richmond Arena  Richmond, VA
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

Source^[2]

References

1. "William & Mary season-by-season results". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
2. "William & Mary Tribe Men's Basketball Year-by-Year Records" (PDF). Year-by-year records. College of William & Mary. 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2016.