Mode: | Basketball |
Year: | 1947–48 |
Prev Year: | 1946–47 |
Next Year: | 1948–49 |
Team: | Baylor Bears |
Conference: | Southwest Conference |
Short Conf: | SWC |
Record: | 24–8 |
Conf Record: | 11–1 |
Hc Year: | 5th |
Champion: | NCAA tournament, Runner-up Southwest Conference champions |
Tourney Result: | L 42-58 vs. Kentucky |
The 1947–48 Baylor Bears men's basketball team represented the Baylor University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1947–48 NCAA men's basketball season. Led by 5th-year head coach Bill Henderson, the team played their home games at Marrs McLean Gymnasium in Waco, Texas.
This season marked the first Final Four appearance in program history for the Bears. Baylor would return again in 1950, but then waited another 71 years before winning the national championship in 2021.
|-!colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season
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|-!colspan=9 style=| NCAA Division Six Playoffs|-!colspan=9 style=| NCAA tournament|-!colspan=9 style=| Olympic Basketball Trials[1] [2]