1953 NCAA basketball championship game
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| Date | March 18, 1953[1] | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri | ||||||||||||
| MVP | B.H. Born, Kansas[2] | ||||||||||||
The 1953 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 1953 NCAA basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1952-53 NCAA men's basketball season. The game was played on March 20, 1954, at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. It featured the Indiana Hoosiers of the Big Ten Conference, and the defending national champion Kansas Jayhawks of the Big Seven Conference. This was a rematch of the 1940 NCAA basketball championship game, which Indiana won.
Participating teams
[edit]Kansas Jayhawks
[edit]- West-1
- Kansas 73, Oklahoma City 65
- Kansas 61, Oklahoma A&M 55
- Final Four
- Kansas 79, Washington 53
Indiana Hoosiers
[edit]- East-2
- Indiana 82, DePaul 80
- Indiana 79, Notre Dame 66
- Final Four
- Indiana 80, LSU 67
Game summary
[edit]Source:[3]
March 18, 1953
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| #1 Indiana Hoosiers 69, #3 Kansas Jayhawks 68 | ||
| Scoring by half: 41-41, 28-27 | ||
| Pts: Don Schlundt 30 Rebs: Charlie Kraak 13 |
Pts: B.H. Born 26 Rebs: B.H. Born 15 | |
References
[edit]- ^ "Kansas vs. Indiana (Men), March 18, 1953". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
- ^ "Final Four Most Outstanding Players". cbs.sportsline.com. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
- ^ "Kansas vs. Indiana Box Score, March 18, 1953 | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com".
Categories:
- 1952–53 NCAA men's basketball season
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- March 1953 sports events in the United States
- Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball
- NCAA Division I men's basketball championship games
- Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball
- 20th century in Kansas City, Missouri