1945 NAIA basketball tournament

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1945 NAIA men's basketball tournament
Teams16
Finals site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions Loyola New Orleans (1st title, 1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Runner-up Pepperdine (1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Semifinalists
MVP Fred Lewis (Eastern Kentucky)
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The 1945 NAIA basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 8th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 16 teams playing in a single-elimination format, [1] instead of the normal 32. It is the only tournament to feature only 16 teams.

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The NAIA semifinals featured four new teams for the first time since the inaugural year, 1937.

The championship game featured Loyola New Orleans defeating Pepperdine 49–35. Loyola New Orleans would not go on to win another NAIA national title until 2022, 77 years later.

Awards and honors

Many of the records set by the 1945 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:

Bracket

First roundElite EightNAIA national semifinalsNAIA national championship
        
Central (MO) 54
Eau Claire 36
Central (MO) 48*
Eastern Kentucky50
Eastern Kentucky 64
Simpson 42
Eastern Kentucky 34
TOP TIER
Pepperdine52
West Texas State 54
Wichita State 43
West Texas State 45
Pepperdine52
Pepperdine 77
Peru State 42
Pepperdine 35
Loyola New Orleans49
Central Normal (IN) 53
Catawba 39
Central Normal 43
Loyola New Orleans50
Loyola New Orleans 53
Phillips 31
Loyola New Orleans37
BOTTOM TIER
Southern Illinois 35
Southern Illinois 64NAIA third-pace game
Washburn 49
Southern Illinois61Eastern Kentucky 45
Doane 44 Southern Illinois49
Doane 54
Eastern Washington State 51

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References

  1. "NAIA.org". Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  2. NAIA Championship History Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine