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1959 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Champions
  
Evansville (1st title)

Finals Site
  
Evansville, Indiana

Runner-Up
  
Southwest Missouri State (1st title game)

Semifinalists
  
North Carolina A&T(1st Final Four) Cal State Los Angeles(2nd Final Four)

Winning coach
  
Arad McCutchan (1st title)

The 1959 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA College Division college basketball as a culmination of the 1958-59 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by the University of Evansville and Evansville's Hugh Ahlering was the Most Outstanding Player.

Contents

Regionals

  • Third Place - Lincoln 88, Tuskegee 64
  • Third Place - Adelphi 69, Wesleyan 63
  • Third Place - Buffalo 78, Williams 53
  • Third Place - Belmont Abbey 79, Southern Illinois 70
  • Third Place - Wabash 100, Loras 79
  • Third Place - Abilene Christian 85, Western Illinois 81*
  • Third Place - Wartburg 69, Augustana 66*
  • Third Place - Willamette 76, Sacramento State 57

    • *denotes each overtime played

    National Finals

  • Third Place - North Carolina A&T 101, Cal State Los Angeles 84

    • *denotes each overtime played

    References

    1959 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
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