1942 NCAA Basketball Tournament

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1942 NCAA Basketball Tournament
Teams8
Finals site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions Stanford Indians (1st title, 1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Runner-up Dartmouth Big Green (1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Semifinalists
Winning coach Everett Dean (1st title)
MOP Howie Dallmar (Stanford)
Attendance24,373
Top scorers Chet Palmer, Rice
Jim Pollard, Stanford
(43 points)
NCAA Division I Men's Tournaments
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The 1942 NCAA Basketball Tournament involved eight schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 20, 1942, and ended with the championship game on March 28 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of nine games were played, including a third place game in each region.

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Stanford, coached by Everett Dean, won the national title with a 53–38 victory in the final game over Dartmouth, coached by O. B. Cowles. Howie Dallmar of Stanford was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. The Indians' success, however, was not to last, as they would not make the tournament again for 47 years, which is currently tied for the eighth-longest drought in NCAA tournament history.

Everett Dean is the only coach to have never lost an NCAA tournament game. Dean was 3–0 in his lone appearance.

Colorado, Dartmouth, Kansas and Rice became the first teams to appear in multiple NCAA Tournaments by appearing in the 1942 tournament.

Locations

The following were the sites selected to host each round of the 1942 tournament:

Regionals

March 20 and 21
East Regional, Tulane Gym, New Orleans, Louisiana
West Regional, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri

Championship Game

March 28
Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri

For the third straight year, the Municipal Auditorium hosted both the West regionals and the championship game, making it one of two cities (along with its successor, New York City) to host more than two years in a row. For the fourth straight year, the East Regional was held on a college campus, this time on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans. This would be the only time prior to the construction of the Louisiana Superdome that the tournament would be held in the Crescent City, now a regular tournament site.

Teams

East Regional - New Orleans
SchoolCoachConferenceRecord
Dartmouth Osborne Cowles EIBL 20–3
Illinois Doug Mills Big Ten 18–3
Kentucky Adolph Rupp SEC 18–5
Penn State John Lawther Independent17–2
West Regional - Kansas City
SchoolCoachConferenceRecord
Colorado Frosty Cox Mountain States 15–1
Kansas Phog Allen Big Six 16–4
Rice Buster Brannon Southwest 22–3
Stanford Everett Dean Pacific Coast 25–4

Bracket

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
Dartmouth 44
Penn State 39
Dartmouth47
Kentucky 28
Kentucky 46
Illinois 44
Dartmouth 38
Stanford53
Stanford 53
Rice 47
Stanford46
Colorado 35
Colorado 46
Kansas 44

Regional third place

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References

  1. "1942 NCAA Basketball Tournament". College Basketball Reference. Retrieved 3 April 2018.