1946 NCAA basketball championship game

none March 2026 1946 NCAA basketball tournament August 2023 1946 NCAA Tournament Championship Game ncg Madison Square Garden 1941 Postcard.jpg Madison Square Garden in New York City hosted the championship game. March 26, 1946 1945–46 University of North Carolina North Carolina Tar Heels 29-4 SoCon Ben Carnevale 17 23 Oklahoma A&M Oklahoma A&M Aggies 30-2 MVC Henry Iba 23 20 Madison Square Garden New York City, New York 18,479Oklahoma Aggies Take Hoop Trophy The Deseret News Joe Reichler Associated Press March 27, 1946 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19460326&id=FWFSAAAAIBAJ&pg=5198,2943500&hl=en July 19, 2010 12 Oklahoma A&M by 8 ½Okla. Aggies Halt No. Carolina, 43-40 The New York Times March 27, 1946 Louis Effrat 36 Bob Kurland, Oklahoma A&Mhttp://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/history/outstandingplayer Final Four Most Outstanding Players cbs.sportsline.com February 20, 2024 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080907123518/http://sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/history/outstandingplayer 7 September 2008 Jocko Collins & Pat KennedyThe Final Four http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_final4/2014/1FinalFour.pdf 2014 December 9, 2014 20 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four Records NCAA 1945 1947 The 1946 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game took place on March 26, 1946, between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Oklahoma A&M Aggies at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The match-up was the final one of the eighth consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship single-elimination tournament — commonly referred to as the NCAA Tournament — organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is used to crown a national champion for men's basketball at the Division I level.Oklahoma Aggies Win NCAA Title Pittsburgh Press United Press March 27, 1946 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eDEbAAAAIBAJ&pg=6519,5286265 July 19, 2010 22https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SFOYbPikdlgC&dat=19460328&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Herald-Journal - Google News Archive SearchAggies Favored To Top Tar Heels In NCAA Finals Herald-Journal Ted Meier Associated Press March 26, 1946 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19460326&id=kXRhAAAAIBAJ&pg=6460,2604989&hl=en July 19, 2010 9Hager 2012 21 The Aggies won their second consecutive NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship. Bob Kurland was named the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player for his efforts throughout the tournament, an honor which he won in the previous year's tournament. Background North Carolina Tar Heels 1945–46 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team The North Carolina Tar Heels, or White Phantoms, entered the season being coached by Ben Carnevale. Oklahoma A&M Aggies 1945–46 Oklahoma A&M Aggies men's basketball team Coach Henry Iba and the Oklahoma A&M Aggies won the national championship game the previous season, where they defeated New York University by four points to claim the national title.Hager 2012 18-19 The team returned most of the roster from the year before and the team was expected to be successful as the prior year.Hager 2012 20 Sam Aubrey, a player who enlisted in 1943 and was deployed in World War II, returned to the team. Aubrey had sustained an injury during combat, but after intense rehab, he returned to the level of play he had been at before he left and was placed in the starting line up.Hager 2012 20 The Aggies finished the regular season with a 28–2 record and won the Missouri Valley Conference.Hager 2012 20 All five starters for the Aggies were named first team all-conference.Hager 2012 20 Media coverage The media believed that the Aggies' chances of winning depended on the play of Bob Kurland, the nation's leading scorer.Oklahomans Choice Over N. C. Tonight The Washington Post Associated Press March 26, 1946 36Oklahoma Aggies in Garden Tonight The New York Times March 26, 1946 Michael Strauss 33 An Associated Press writer believed that if Kurland played like he had in the past eleven games, then the Aggies would be the first team to repeat as NCAA champions. Sportswriters believed that if McKinney – who was assigned to guard Kurland – could play well enough defense and Dillon make enough shots, the Tar Heels would have a chance at winning. Broadcast This was the first NCAA Tournament to have a game televised.http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/ncaa-tournament/history/yearbyyear/1946 1946 Men's NCAA basketball tournament Jeff Borzello CBSSports.com CBS Broadcasting Inc. December 9, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20160409025318/http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/ncaa-tournament/history/yearbyyear/1946 April 9, 2016 live The game was broadcast across only the greater New York area and reached close to 500,000 people. Box score Source:Oklahoma State vs. North Carolina Box Score, March 26, 1946 sports-reference.com Sports Reference LLC 2010 https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1946-03-26-north-carolina.html December 9, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20160409025000/http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1946-03-26-north-carolina.html April 9, 2016 live #eee March 26, 1946 10:15 pm EST Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York Jocko Collins & Pat Kennedy 18,479 Oklahoma A&M Aggies 43 Bob Kurland 23 North Carolina Tar Heels 40 John Dillon 16 23-17 20-23 References Citations 30em Bibliography Hager Tom The Ultimate Book of March Madness: The Players, Games, and Cinderellas that Captivated a Nation MVP Books 2012 Minneapolis, Minnesota https://books.google.com/books?id=LOBJLe48s0IC 978-0-7603-4323-4 NCAA Basketball Championship Game Category:NCAA Division I men's basketball championship games Category:North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball Category:Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball Category:Sports competitions in Manhattan Category:College sports tournaments in New York City Category:Basketball competitions in New York City NCAA Basketball Championship Game NCAA Basketball Championship Game Category:1940s in Manhattan