1948 NAIA basketball tournament
| Teams | 32 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finals site | Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri | ||||
| Champions | Louisville (1st title, 1st title game, 1st Final Four) | ||||
| Runner-up | Indiana State (2nd title game, 2nd Final Four) | ||||
| Semifinalists | |||||
| MVP | Duane Klueh (Indiana State) | ||||
| Top scorer | Duane Klueh (Indiana State) (96 points) | ||||
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The 1948 NAIA basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 11th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.[1]
The championship game featured Louisville beating Indiana State, 82–70.
The only school to have won national titles in both the NAIA and NCAA Division I is Louisville. Uniquely, Indiana State has finished as the National Runner-up in the NAIA (1946 and 1948), the NCAA Division I (1979) and the NCAA Division II (1968) tournaments. Indiana State won the NAIA in 1950.
The tournament was the first intercollegiate postseason to feature a black student-athlete, Clarence J. Walker of Indiana State under coach John Wooden. Wooden had withdrawn from the 1947 tournament because the NAIB would not allow Walker to play.[2]
Awards and honors
[edit]Many of the records set by the 1948 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:
- Leading scorer est. 1963
- Leading rebounder est. 1963
- Charles Stevenson Hustle Award est. 1958
- Coach of the Year est. 1954
- Player of the Year est. 1994
- All-time scoring leader; second appearance: Harold Haskins, 12th, Hamline (Minn.) (1947,48,49,50), 14 games, 104 field goals, 72 free throws, 280 total points, 20.0 average per game.[3]
Bracket
[edit]| First round | Second round | Elite Eight | NAIA national semifinals | NAIA national championship | |||||||||||||||
| Marshall | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Peru State | 53 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Marshall | 72* | ||||||||||||||||||
| San Jose State | 74 | ||||||||||||||||||
| San Jose State | 64 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa State Teachers | 58 | ||||||||||||||||||
| San Jose State | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||
| TOP TIER | |||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana State | 59 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brigham Young | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Delta State | 61* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brigham Young | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana State | 82 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana State | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||
| St. Francis (PA) | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana State | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hamline | 65* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Illinois | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Oregon State | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Illinois | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manhattan | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manhattan | 65 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas State Teachers | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manhattan | 51 | ||||||||||||||||||
| TOP TIER | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hamline | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gonzaga | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Texas Wesleyan | 45 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gonzaga | 55 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hamline | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hamline | 85 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mercer | 41 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana State | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Louisville | 82 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Louisville | 63 | ||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota State | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Louisville | 82 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Emporia State | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Emporia State | 65 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Loyola Maryland | 57 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Louisville | 85 | ||||||||||||||||||
| BOTTOM TIER | |||||||||||||||||||
| Beloit | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lawrence Tech | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Appalachian State | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lawrence Tech | 62 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Beloit | 78 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Beloit | 84 | ||||||||||||||||||
| East Central State | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Louisville | 56 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier | 49 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut Teachers | 63 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Montana | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut Teachers | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier | 57 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier (OH) | 67 | NAIA third-place game | |||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern State (LA) | 43 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Xavier | 63 | Hamline | 59 | ||||||||||||||||
| BOTTOM TIER | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mankato State | 50 | Xavier | 58 | ||||||||||||||||
| Mankato State | 49 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Denver | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mankato State | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Arizona State-Tempe | 53 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Arizona State-Tempe | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||
| NE Missouri State | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||
- * denotes overtime.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "NAIA.org". Archived from the original on May 1, 2009. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ^ Keefer, Zak (March 16, 2017). "Indiana basketball player broke racial barrier, changed game forever". Indianapolis Star. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
- ^ NAIA Championship History Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine