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1942 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Finals Site
  
Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri

Champions
  
Hamline (Minn.) (1st title, 1st title game, 2nd Final Four)

Runner-Up
  
Southeastern Oklahoma (1st title game, 1st Final Four)

Semifinalists
  
Pittsburg State (Kan.) (1st Final Four) Central Missouri (3rd Final Four)

Chuck Taylor MVP
  
Gus Doerner (Evansville (Ind.))

The 1942 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 6th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. The championship game featured Hamline University (Minn.) beating Southeastern Oklahoma State University 33 to 31.

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Awards and honors

Many of the records set by the 1942 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

    • 1942 NAIA bracket

  •  * denotes overtime.

    • 3rd place game

    The third place game featured the losing team from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.

    References

    1942 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
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