1940 NCAA basketball tournament
Teams | 8 | ||||
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Finals site | Marvin Huffman (Indiana) | ||||
Attendance | 36,880 | ||||
Top scorer | Howard Engleman (Kansas) (39 points) | ||||
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The 1940 NCAA basketball tournament involved eight schools playing in
championship game on March 30 in Kansas City, Missouri
. A total of eight games were played, including a single third place game in the West region.
Marvin Huffman of Indiana was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player
.
This would be the only tournament to feature Springfield College, the school James Naismith worked for when he invented the sport of basketball. They were the first of fourteen colleges and universities to compete in the tournament that are no longer in Division I. This was also the first appearance of the Kansas Jayhawks, whose first coach was Naismith.
Locations
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 1940 tournament:
Regionals
- March 20 and 21
- East Regional, Butler Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana (Host: Butler University)
- West Regional, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference)
Championship Game
- March 30
- Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference)
Teams
East Regional - Indianapolis | |||
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School | Coach | Conference | Record |
Duquesne | Chick Davies
|
Independent | 19–2 |
Indiana | Branch McCracken | Big Ten | 17–3 |
Springfield
|
Ed Hickox
|
Independent | 16–2 |
Western Kentucky
|
Ed Diddle
|
SIAA | 24–5 |
West Regional - Kansas City | |||
---|---|---|---|
School | Coach | Conference | Record |
Colorado | Frosty Cox | Mountain States
|
17–2 |
Kansas | Phog Allen | Big Six | 17–5 |
Rice | Buster Brannon | Southwest | 21–2 |
USC | Sam Barry | Pacific Coast | 19–2 |
Bracket
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Indiana | 48 | |||||||||||||
Springfield
| 24 | |||||||||||||
Indiana | 39 | |||||||||||||
Duquesne | 30 | |||||||||||||
Duquesne | 30 | |||||||||||||
Western Kentucky | 29 | |||||||||||||
Indiana | 60 | |||||||||||||
Kansas | 42 | |||||||||||||
USC | 38 | |||||||||||||
Colorado | 32 | |||||||||||||
USC | 42 | |||||||||||||
Kansas | 43 | |||||||||||||
Kansas | 50 | |||||||||||||
Rice | 44 |
Regional Third Place
West Regional Third Place | ||||
Colorado | 56 | |||
Rice | 60 |
See also
- 1940 National Invitation Tournament
- 1940 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament
References
- ^ "1940 NCAA basketball tournament". College Basketball Reference. Retrieved April 3, 2018.