1953–54 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team

American college basketball season August 2023 December 2025 Basketball 1953–54 William & Mary Indians Southern Conference SoCon 9–14 6–5 Boydson Baird 2nd Blow Gymnasium The 1953–54 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1953–54 NCAA men's basketball season. Under the second year of head coach Boydson Baird, the team finished the season 9–14, 6–5 in the Southern Conference. This was the 49th season of the collegiate basketball program at William & Mary, whose nickname is now the Tribe. William & Mary played its home games at Blow Gymnasium.William & Mary season-by-season results sports-reference.com Sports Reference LLC 2015 https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/william-mary/ February 12, 2015 The Indians finished in 5th place in the conference and qualified for the 1954 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament, held at the WVU Field House in Morgantown, West Virginia. However, the Indians fell to West Virginia in the quarterfinals. Program notes Following the previous season, seven of William & Mary's Southern Conference co-members departed for the new Atlantic Coast Conference: Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest. As such, only 10 teams remained in the Southern Conference during the 1953–54 season. Schedule no no no |- !colspan=9 style="background:#006400; color:#FFD700;"| Regular season yes yes Hampden–Sydney Hampden Sydney, VA 78–58 1–0 12/8/1953 yes yes Maryland Ritchie Coliseum College Park, MD 54–69 1–1 yes yes North Carolina Woollen Gymnasium Chapel Hill, NC 61–71 1–2 2/12/1953 yes yes Duke Duke Indoor Stadium Durham, NC 44–109 1–3 George Washington Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA 53–65 1–4 (0–1) 1/1/1954 yes yes Seton Hall Walsh Gymnasium South Orange, NJ 57–55 2–4 yes Clemson Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA 72–75 2–5 yes Hampden–Sydney Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA 78–65 3–5 1/9/1954 yes West Virginia WVU Field House Morgantown, WV 78–76 4–5 (1–1) VMI Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA 71–67 5–5 (2–1) 1/16/1954 yes Richmond Benedictine High School Gymnasium Richmond, VA 73–85 5–6 (2–2) VPI Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA 82–66 6–6 (3–2) 2/2/1954 yes yes NC State Reynolds Coliseum Raleigh, NC 70–80 6–7 2/6/1954 yes Washington and Lee Doremus Gymnasium Lexington, VA 73–58 7–7 (4–2) 2/8/1954 yes VPI War Memorial Gymnasium Blacksburg, VA 66–52 8–7 (5–2) yes VMI Cormack Field House Lexington, VA 62–81 8–8 (5–3) 2/13/1954 yes yes NC State 19 Reynolds Coliseum Raleigh, NC 48–65 8–9 yes George Washington 8 Washington, DC 58–69 8–10 (5–4) Washington and Lee Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA 68–54 9–10 (6–4) 2/20/1954 yes Wake Forest Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA 56–57 OT 9–11 2/25/1954 yes Maryland 11 Blow Gymnasium Williamsburg, VA 55–74 9–12 2/27/1954 yes Richmond Benedictine High School Gymnasium Richmond, VA 63–68 9–13 (6–5) |- !colspan=9 style="background:#006400; color:#FFD700;"| 1954 Southern Conference Basketball Tournament 3/4/1954 yes (4) West Virginia WVU Field House Morgantown, WV Quarterfinals 69–84 9–14 SourceWilliam & Mary Tribe Men's Basketball Year-by-Year Records Year-by-year records College of William & Mary 2015 http://www.tribeathletics.com/fls/25100/data_import/files/mbb/history/yby.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=25100 February 12, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150210015121/http://www.tribeathletics.com/fls/25100/data_import/files/mbb/history/yby.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=25100 2015-02-10 dead References Category:William & Mary Tribe men's basketball seasons William and Mary Indians William and Mary Indians Men's Basketball Team William and Mary Indians Men's Basketball Team