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1953–54 La Salle Explorers men's basketball team

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Conference
  
Independent

AP
  
No. 2

Head coach
  
Coaches
  
No. 1

1953-54 record
  
26-4

Season summary

Some basketball historians have called La Salle star Tom Gola the Magic Johnson of his day because, at 6-7, he could play all five positions. But not even Magic piled up the kind of numbers Gola did in leading the Explorers to the 1954 national championship - 21.7 points and 23 rebounds per game. Guard Frank O’Hara was Gola’s capable running mate along with five sophomores who played complementary roles.

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Sophomore Robert Ames, later a CIA official killed in the 1983 bombing of the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, averaged two points and one rebound in 14 games for the Explorers.

NCAA tournament

  • West
  • La Salle 76, Fordham 74
  • La Salle 88, North Carolina State 81
  • La Salle 64, Navy 48
  • Final Four
  • La Salle 69, Pennsylvania State 54
  • La Salle 92, Bradley 76
  • Awards and honors

  • Tom Gola, NCAA Men's MOP Award
  • References

    1953–54 La Salle Explorers men's basketball team Wikipedia


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