| Mode: | Basketball |
| Year: | 1949–50 |
| Prev Year: | 1948–49 |
| Next Year: | 1950–51 |
| Team: | Bradley Braves |
| Conference: | Missouri Valley Conference |
| Short Conf: | MVC |
| Aprank: | 1 |
| Record: | 32–5 |
| Conf Record: | 11–1 |
| Hc Year: | 2nd |
| Captain: | Billy Mann |
| Champion: | NCAA Tournament Runner-up NIT Runner-up Missouri Valley Conference champions |
| Bowl Result: | L 68-71 vs. CCNY |
The 1949–50 Bradley Braves men's basketball team represented Bradley University in college basketball during the 1949–50 season. The team finished the season with a 32–5 record[1] and were national runners-up to the City College of New York (CCNY) in both the 1950 NCAA tournament and 1950 National Invitation Tournament. Early on in the NCAA Tournament's days, which began in 1939, teams were allowed to participate in both it and the NIT. The 1949–50 college basketball season is noteworthy in that it is the only year in which a team won both tournaments (CCNY), and the losing team of both championships happened to be Bradley. Coincidentally enough, a year later, several of Bradley's players from this season's team would be instigated as individuals involved in what would later be known as the CCNY point-shaving scandal due to the biggest noise coming from the scandal at the time involving CCNY despite the fact that seven different universities had players involved in the scandal at the time, including Bradley.
|-!colspan=9 style="background:#BA122B; color:#FFFFFF;"| Regular season|-!colspan=9 style="background:#BA122B; color:#FFFFFF;"| 1950 National Invitation Tournament|-!colspan=9 style="background:#BA122B; color:#FFFFFF;"| 1950 NCAA TournamentSource[2]
See main article: 1949–50 NCAA men's basketball rankings.