Established 1932 Association NCAA Sports fielded College basketball | Dissolved 1939 Division Division I | |
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Members 5 (1932-33 and 1934-35)
6 (1933-34; 1935-36 through 1938-39) | ||
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.
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The 1937-38 conference champion, Temple, went on to win the 1938 National Invitation Tournament.
Although the Associated Press described the conference as "one of the best in the nation," its members agreed to disband it at the end of the 1938-39 season because geographical problems had made scheduling difficult.
Membership
Over its seven seasons of existence, the conference's membership varied between five and six schools each season:
Men's basketball
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 three times between 1935 and 1937. However, following the 1938-39 season, no playoff game was held despite identical records held by Carnegie Tech and Georgetown.
Pittsburgh dominated the conference results with four championships in the conference's 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.
* Conference title decided by a playoff game
Men's basketball
During the 1937-38 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.
Yearly standings
Each conference member played each other twice each season in a home-and-home schedule except for the 1933-34 season, when Bucknell, Carnegie Tech, and Pittsburgh did not play a complete 10-game home-and-home schedule for the season.
1934-35
Conference playoff championship game, March 18, 1935 in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Pittsburgh 35, West Virginia 22
1935-36
Conference playoff championship game, March 14, 1936 at Pitt Stadium Pavilion, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Carnegie Tech 32, Pittsburgh 27
1936-37
Conference playoff championship game, March 22, 1937 at Philadelphia Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh 35, Temple 29
1938-39
No conference championship playoff game was held, so Carnegie Tech and Georgetown finished as co-champions.