1954 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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The 1954 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 24 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 8, 1954, and ended with the championship game on March 20 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 28 games were played.

La Salle, coached by Ken Loeffler, won the national title with a 92-76 victory in the final game over Bradley, coached by Forddy Anderson. Tom Gola of La Salle was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Contents 1 Locations 2 Teams 3 Bracket 3.1 East region 3.2 West region 3.3 National Championship 4 External links

[edit] Locations

Region	Site	Other Locations
East	Iowa City, Iowa, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Buffalo, New York, Durham, North Carolina, Fort Wayne, Indiana
West	Corvallis, Oregon, Stillwater, Oklahoma	Peoria, Illinois
Finals	Kansas City, Missouri

[edit] Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final Opponent	Score
East
East	n/a	UConn	Hugh Greer	First round	Navy	L 85-80
East	n/a	Cornell	Royner Greene	Regional Fourth Place	North Carolina State	L 65-54
East	n/a	Fordham	John Bach	First round	La Salle	L 76-74
East	n/a	George Washington	Bill Reinhart	First round	North Carolina State	L 75-73
East	n/a	Indiana	Branch McCracken	Regional Third Place	LSU	W 73-62
East	n/a	La Salle	Ken Loeffler	Champion	Bradley	W 92-76
East	n/a	LSU	Harry Rabenhorst	Regional Fourth Place	Indiana	L 73-62
East	n/a	Loyola, Louisiana	Jim McCafferty	First round	Notre Dame	L 80-70
East	n/a	Navy	Ben Carnevale	Elite Eight	La Salle	L 64-48
East	n/a	North Carolina State	Everett Case	Regional Third Place	Cornell	W 65-54
East	n/a	Notre Dame	John Jordan	Elite Eight	Penn State	L 71-63
East	n/a	Penn State	Elmer Gross	Third Place	USC	W 70-61
East	n/a	Toledo	Jerry Bush	First round	Penn State	L 62-50
West
West	n/a	Bradley	Forddy Anderson	Runner Up	La Salle	L 92-76
West	n/a	Colorado	Bebe Lee	Regional Fourth Place	Rice	L 78-55
West	n/a	Colorado State	Bill Strannigan	Regional Fourth Place	Idaho State	L 62-57
West	n/a	Idaho State	Steve Belko	Regional Third Place	Colorado State	W 62-57
West	n/a	Oklahoma City	Doyle Parrack	First round	Bradley	L 61-55
West	n/a	Oklahoma A&M	Henry Iba	Elite Eight	Bradley	L 71-57
West	n/a	Rice	Don Suman	Regional Third Place	Colorado	W 78-55
West	n/a	Santa Clara	Bob Feerick	Elite Eight	USC	L 66-65
West	n/a	Seattle	Al Brightman	First round	Idaho State	L 77-75
West	n/a	USC	Forrest Twogood	Fourth Place	Pennsylvania State	L 70-61
West	n/a	Texas Tech	Polk Robison	First round	Santa Clara	L 73-64

[edit] Bracket

[edit] East region

	First round					Sweet Sixteen					Elite Eight					Final Four
							LSU	70
							Penn St	78
		Penn St	62
		Toledo	50
												Penn St	71
											Notre Dame	63
							Indiana	64
							Notre Dame	65
		Notre Dame	80
		Loyola-LA	70
																	Penn St	54
																	La Salle	69
							Cornell	67
							Navy	69
		Navy	85
		Connecticut	80
												Navy	48
											La Salle	64
		N.C. State	75
		George Washington	73
							N.C. State	81
							La Salle	88
		La Salle	76
		Fordham	74*

[edit] West region

	First round					Sweet Sixteen					Elite Eight					Final Four
							Colorado	64
							Bradley	76
		Bradley	61
		Oklahoma City	55
												Bradley	71
											Oklahoma A&M	57
							Oklahoma A&M	51
							Rice	45
																	Bradley	74
																	Southern California	72
							Southern California	73
							Idaho St	59
		Idaho St	77
		Seattle	75*
												Southern California	66
											Santa Clara	65**
							Colorado St	50
							Santa Clara	73
		Santa Clara	73
		Texas Tech	64

[edit] National Championship

	National Finals
		La Salle	92
		Bradley	76

[edit] External links

• 1954 NCAA Basketball Tournament on Shrp Sports (source for the bracket)
• HoopsTournament.Net, source for much of the information on this page.

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