1940 NCAA baseball season

1940 NCAA baseball season
Seasons
←  1939 1941  →

The 1940 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1940. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1940 season.

Conference	Regular season winner
Big Nine	Illinois/Northwestern
Big Six	Oklahoma
CIBA	Saint Mary's
EIBL	Cornell
Pacific Coast Conference North	Oregon State
Southeastern Conference	Alabama
Southwest Conference	Texas

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1940 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League baseball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT Cornell  ‍†‍‍ 10 – 1 – 0   .909 13 – 6 – 0   .684 Dartmouth  ‍‍‍ 6 – 3 – 0   .667 12 – 11 – 0   .522 Columbia  ‍‍‍ 6 – 5 – 0   .545 8 – 6 – 0   .571 Princeton  ‍‍‍ 6 – 6 – 0   .500 10 – 15 – 1   .404 Yale  ‍‍‍ 7 – 8 – 0   .467 16 – 11 – 0   .593 Harvard  ‍‍‍ 3 – 8 – 0   .273 8 – 18 – 0   .308 Penn  ‍‍‍ 2 – 10 – 0   .167 8 – 16 – 0   .333 † – Conference champion