1953 NCAA basketball tournament

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1953 NCAA basketball tournament
Season 195253
Teams22
Finals site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions Indiana Hoosiers (2nd title, 2nd title game,
2nd Final Four)
Runner-up Kansas Jayhawks (3rd title game,
3rd Final Four)
Semifinalists
Winning coach Branch McCracken (2nd title)
MOP B. H. Born (Kansas)
Attendance127,149
Top scorer Bob Houbregs (Washington)
(139 points)
NCAA Division I men's tournaments
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The 1953 NCAA basketball tournament involved 22 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of NCAA college basketball. The 15th edition of the tournament began on March 10, 1953, and ended with the championship game on March 18 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 26 games were played, including a third-place game in each region and a national third-place game.

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Indiana, coached by Branch McCracken, won the tournament title with a 69–68 victory in the final game over Kansas, coached by Phog Allen. B. H. Born of Kansas was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. The Hoosiers became the third team, after Oklahoma A&M in 1945–46 and Kentucky in 1948–49, to win two titles and the second of three teams to win titles in their first two tournament appearances (after Oklahoma A&M); however, unlike Oklahoma A&M before them and San Francisco after, their first two tournament appearances were 13 years apart.

Locations

The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 1953 tournament:

East-1 Region

First round (March 10)
The Palestra, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Hosts: University of Pennsylvania, Ivy League)
East-1 Regional (March 13 and 14)
Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina (Host: North Carolina State University)

East-2 Region

First round (March 10)
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, Indiana (Host: Big Ten Conference)
East-2 Regional (March 12 and 13)
Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois (Hosts: Loyola University Chicago, DePaul University)

West-1 Region

West-1 Regional (March 12 and 13)
Ahearn Field House, Manhattan, Kansas (Host: Kansas State University)

West-2 Region

First round (March 10)
Hec Edmundson Pavilion, Seattle, Washington (Host: University of Washington)
Stanford Pavilion, Palo Alto, California (Host: Stanford University)
West-2 Regional (March 13 and 14)
Oregon State Coliseum, Corvallis, Oregon (Host: Oregon State University)

Final Four

March 17 and 18
Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference)

Teams

RegionTeamCoachConferenceFinishedFinal OpponentScore
East
East DePaul Ray Meyer IndependentRegional Fourth Place Penn L 90–70
East Eastern Kentucky Paul McBrayer Ohio Valley First round Notre Dame L 72–57
East Fordham Johnny Bach Metro NY First round Lebanon Valley L 80–67
East Holy Cross Buster Sheary IndependentElite Eight LSU L 81–73
East Indiana Branch McCracken Big Ten Champion Kansas W 69–68
East Lebanon Valley Rinso Marquette IndependentRegional Fourth Place Wake Forest L 91–71
East LSU Harry Rabenhorst Southeastern Fourth Place Washington L 88–69
East Miami (OH) Bill Rohr Mid-American First round DePaul L 74–72
East Navy Ben Carnevale IndependentFirst round Holy Cross L 87–74
East Notre Dame John Jordan IndependentElite Eight Indiana L 79–66
East Penn Howie Dallmar Ivy League Regional third place DePaul W 90–70
East Wake Forest Murray Greason Southern Regional third place Lebanon Valley W 91–71
West
West Hardin–Simmons Bill Scott Border First round Santa Clara L 81–56
West Idaho State Steve Belko IndependentFirst round Seattle L 88–77
West Kansas Phog Allen Big 7 Runner Up Indiana L 69–68
West Oklahoma City Doyle Parrack IndependentRegional Fourth Place TCU L 58–56
West Oklahoma A&M Henry Iba Missouri Valley Elite Eight Kansas L 61–55
West Santa Clara Bob Feerick CBA Elite Eight Washington L 74–62
West Seattle Al Brightman IndependentRegional third place Wyoming W 80–64
West TCU Buster Brannon Southwest Regional third place Oklahoma City W 58–56
West Washington Tippy Dye Pacific Coast Third Place LSU W 88–69
West Wyoming Everett Shelton Mountain States Regional Fourth Place Seattle L 80–64

Bracket

East-1 Region

First Round Regional Semifinals Regional Finals
LSU 89
Lebanon Valley 80Lebanon Valley 76
Fordham 67 LSU81
Holy Cross 73
Wake Forest 71
Holy Cross 87Holy Cross79
Navy 74 Third place
Lebanon Valley 71
Wake Forest91

East-2 Region

First Round Regional Semifinals Regional Finals
Penn 57
Notre Dame 72Notre Dame69
Eastern Kentucky 57 Notre Dame 66
Indiana79
Indiana 82
DePaul 74DePaul 80
Miami (OH) 72 Third place
Penn90
DePaul 70

West-1 Region

Regional Semifinals Regional Final
    
Oklahoma A&M 71
TCU 54
Oklahoma A&M 55
Kansas61
Kansas 73
Oklahoma City 65 Third place
TCU58
Oklahoma City 56

West-2 Region

First Round Regional Semifinals Regional Final
Washington 92
Seattle 88Seattle 70
Idaho State 77 Washington74
Santa Clara 62
Wyoming 52
Santa Clara 81Santa Clara67
Hardin–Simmons 56 Third place
Seattle80
Wyoming 64

Final Four

National semifinal National Championship
    
LSU 67
Indiana80
Indiana69
Kansas 68
Kansas79
Washington 53 National Third Place
LSU 69
Washington88

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References

  1. "1953 NCAA basketball tournament". College Basketball Reference. Retrieved April 5, 2018.