1953 NCAA basketball championship game

none March 2026 1953 NCAA basketball tournament August 2023 1953 NCAA Tournament Championship Game ncg Municipal Auditorium Kansas City Missouri.jpg The Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, hosted the championship game. March 18, 1953https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1953-03-18-indiana.html Kansas vs. Indiana (Men), March 18, 1953 Sports-Reference.com February 18, 2024 1952-53 University of Kansas Kansas Jayhawks 19-5 Big Seven 3 5 Phog Allen 41 27 Indiana University Indiana Hoosiers 22-3 Big Ten 1 1 Branch McCracken 41 28 Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri B.H. Born, Kansashttp://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/history/outstandingplayer Final Four Most Outstanding Players cbs.sportsline.com February 18, 2024 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080907123518/http://sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/history/outstandingplayer 7 September 2008 1952 1954 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 18, 1953, 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, and the first national championship game rematch in tournament history, a phenomenon that has only repeated twice since, in 1962 and 2022. Participating teams Kansas Jayhawks 1952-53 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team West-1 Kansas 73, Oklahoma City 65 Kansas 61, Oklahoma A&M 55 Final Four Kansas 79, Washington 53 Indiana Hoosiers 1952-53 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team East-2 Indiana 82, DePaul 80 Indiana 79, Notre Dame 66 Final Four Indiana 80, LSU 67 Game summary Source:https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1953-03-18-indiana.html Kansas vs. Indiana Box Score, March 18, 1953 College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com #eee March 18, 1953 Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri #1 Indiana Hoosiers 69 Don Schlundt 30 Charlie Kraak 13 #3 Kansas Jayhawks 68 B.H. Born 26 B.H. Born 15 41-41 28-27 References NCAA basketball championship game NCAA basketball championship game Category:Basketball competitions in Kansas City, Missouri Category:College basketball tournaments in Missouri NCAA basketball championship game Category:Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball Category:NCAA Division I men's basketball championship games Category:Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball Category:1950s in Kansas City, Missouri