1940 NAIA Basketball Tournament

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1940 (1940) NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Teams32
Finals Site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions Tarkio
(1st title, 1st title game,
1st Fab Four)
Runner-Up San Diego State
(2nd title game,
2nd Fab Four)
Semifinalists Delta State
Hamline
Chuck Taylor MVP Mel Waits
(Tarkio)
  1939 NAIA Division I
Men's Tournaments
1941  

The 1940 NAIA men's basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 4th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. [1]

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This year the National College Basketball Tournament (NCBT) changed its name to the National Association for Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB). [2]

The championship game featured Tarkio beating San Diego State, 52–42. San Diego State became the first team to lose back-to-back title games.

Awards and honors

Many of the records set by the 1940 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:

Bracket

First RoundSecond RoundElite EightNAIA National SemifinalsNAIA National Championship
          
Kansas Wesleyan 45
Arkansas State Teachers 33
Kansas Wesleyan 50
Hamline61
Hamline 47
Pacific (OR) 26
Southwestern (KS) 33
TOP TIER
Hamline38
Southwestern (KS) 36
Columbia (IA) 30
Southwestern (KS)38
Glenville State 37
Glenville State 50
Wayne State (NE) 38
Hamline 34
Tarkio48
SE Oklahoma State 33
Northwestern State (LA) 27
SE Oklahoma State 39
Texas Wesleyan40
Texas Wesleyan 40
Central Missouri State 36
Texas Wesleyan 25
TOP TIER
Tarkio37
Tarkio (MO) 54
Alfred Holbrook 37
Tarkio50
West Texas State 49
West Texas State 60
Northern State 52
Tarkio52
San Diego State 42
East Texas State 49
Ripon 39
East Texas State 33
Pittsburg State55
Pittsburg State 47
St. Joseph’s (IN) 26
Pittsburg State 30
BOTTOM TIER
San Diego State32
San Diego State 36
Central State (OK) 35
San Diego State48
Appalachian State 46
Appalachian State 43
Bemidji State 34
San Diego State30
Delta State 28
NW Missouri State 45
Simpson 44
NW Missouri State43
Peru State 41
Peru State 49NAIA Third Place Game
Augustana (IL) 45
NW Missouri State 30 Hamline 26
BOTTOM TIER
Delta State44Delta State45
Superior State 55
Upper Iowa 42
Superior State 40
Delta State57
Delta State 43
Dakota Wesleyan 31

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