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1955 NCAA Basketball Tournament

Index 1955 NCAA Basketball Tournament

The 1955 NCAA Basketball Tournament involved 24 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. [1]

80 relations: Adolph Rupp, Ahearn Field House, Al Brightman, Alex Shaw (basketball), Alexander Severance, Bebe Lee, Bill Rohr, Bill Russell, Bob Vanatta, Bradley University, Bucky O'Connor, Canisius College, Clarence Iba, College basketball, Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball, Corvallis, Oregon, Cow Palace, Doc Hayes, Doyle Parrack, Duke University, El Reno, Oklahoma, Eugene Lambert (coach), Evanston, Illinois, Franklin Cappon, Fred Schaus, Gill Coliseum, Gus Miller, Harold Bradley (basketball), Idaho State University, Jack Gardner (basketball), Jack Nagle, John Egli, Joseph Curran (basketball), Kansas City, Missouri, Ken Loeffler, Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball, La Salle University, Lexington, Kentucky, Madison Square Garden (1925), Manhattan, Kansas, Marquette University, Memorial Coliseum (University of Kentucky), Miami University, Municipal Auditorium (Kansas City, Missouri), NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player, NCAA Division I, New York City, Northwestern University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City University, ..., Oregon State University, Palestra, Pennsylvania State University, Phil Woolpert, Philadelphia, Princeton University, Rupp Arena, San Francisco, Seattle University, Single-elimination tournament, Slats Gill, Southern Methodist University, Steve Belko, U.S. Route 66, University of Colorado, University of Kentucky, University of Memphis, University of San Francisco, University of Tulsa, University of Utah, Villanova University, Welsh-Ryan Arena, West Texas A&M University, West Virginia University, Williams College, 1954–55 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team, 1954–55 La Salle Explorers men's basketball team, 1954–55 San Francisco Dons men's basketball team, 1955 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, 1955 National Invitation Tournament. Expand index (30 more) »

Adolph Rupp

Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was an American college basketball coach.

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Ahearn Field House

Ahearn Field House is one of the athletic buildings on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.

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Al Brightman

Horace Albert "Al" Brightman (September 22, 1923 – June 10, 1992) was an American professional basketball player and coach.

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Alex Shaw (basketball)

Alex Shaw (July 8, 1907 – November 29, 2009) was a college men's basketball coach.

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Alexander Severance

Alexander G. Severance Sr. (June 3, 1905 – April 1, 1985) was an American basketball and baseball coach.

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Bebe Lee

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Bill Rohr

Bill Rohr was a college men's basketball coach and athletics administrator.

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Bill Russell

William Felton Russell (born February 12, 1934) is an American retired professional basketball player.

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Bob Vanatta

Bob Vanatta (July 7, 1918 – October 22, 2016) was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator.

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Bradley University

Bradley University is a private, mid-sized university in Peoria, Illinois.

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Bucky O'Connor

Frank "Bucky" O'Connor (December 21, 1913 – April 22, 1958) was a college men's basketball coach.

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Canisius College

Canisius College was founded in 1870 by members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) from Germany and is named after St. Peter Canisius.

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Clarence Iba

Clarence Victor Iba (April 20, 1909 – April 21, 1997) is the former head basketball coach at the University of Tulsa.

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College basketball

College basketball today is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA).

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Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball

The Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball team represents the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Corvallis, Oregon

Corvallis is a city in central western Oregon, United States.

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Cow Palace

Cow Palace (originally the California State Livestock Pavilion) is an indoor arena located in Daly City, California, situated on the city's northern border with neighboring San Francisco.

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Doc Hayes

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Doyle Parrack

Doyle Kenneth Parrack (December 6, 1921 – September 5, 2008) was an American professional basketball player and coach.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.

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El Reno, Oklahoma

El Reno is a city in and county seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Eugene Lambert (coach)

Eugene Wasdon Lambert, Sr. (October 23, 1905 – October 27, 2000) was a basketball and football coach as well as an athletic administrator.

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Evanston, Illinois

Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, north of downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north.

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Franklin Cappon

Franklin C. "Cappy" Cappon (October 17, 1900 – November 29, 1961) was a college athlete and coach.

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Fred Schaus

Frederick Appleton Schaus (June 30, 1925 – February 10, 2010) was an American basketball player, head coach and athletic director for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, player for the National Basketball Association's Fort Wayne Pistons and New York Knicks, general manager and head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, head coach of Purdue University basketball, and a member of the NCAA Basketball Committee.

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Gill Coliseum

Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose arena located on the campus of Oregon State University (OSU) in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Gus Miller

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Harold Bradley (basketball)

Harold Bradley (November 20, 1911 – November 6, 1985) was an American college basketball coach.

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Idaho State University

Idaho State University (ISU) is a public research university in Pocatello, Idaho.

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Jack Gardner (basketball)

James H. "Jack" Gardner (March 29, 1910 – April 9, 2000) was an American college men's basketball coach, known for his tenures as the head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Utah.

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Jack Nagle

Joel "Jack" Nagle (1917 – 1991) was the head coach of the Marquette University men’s basketball team from 1953 to 1958.

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John Egli

John Egli was a college men's basketball coach.

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Joseph Curran (basketball)

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Ken Loeffler

Kenneth D. Loeffler (April 14, 1902 – January 1, 1975) was an American collegiate and professional basketball coach.

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Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball

The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team is an American college basketball team that represents the University of Kentucky.

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La Salle University

La Salle University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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Madison Square Garden (1925)

Madison Square Garden (MSG III) was an indoor arena in New York City, the third bearing that name.

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Manhattan, Kansas

Manhattan is a city in northeastern Kansas in the United States at the junction of the Kansas River and Big Blue River.

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Marquette University

Marquette University is a private, coeducational Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the central United States.

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Memorial Coliseum (University of Kentucky)

Memorial Coliseum is a 8,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Miami University

Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.

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Municipal Auditorium (Kansas City, Missouri)

Municipal Auditorium is a multi-purpose facility located in Kansas City, Missouri.

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NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player

At the conclusion of the NCAA men's and women's Division I basketball championships (the "Final Four" tournaments), the Associated Press selects a Most Outstanding Player.

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma City University, often referred to as OCU, is a coeducational, urban, private university historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

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Oregon State University

Oregon State University (OSU) is an international, public research university in the northwest United States, located in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Palestra

The Palestra, often called the Cathedral of College Basketball, is a historic arena and the home gym of the University of Pennsylvania Quakers men's and women's basketball teams, volleyball teams, wrestling team, and Philadelphia Big 5 basketball.

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Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Phil Woolpert

Phil Woolpert (December 15, 1915 – May 7, 1987) was an American basketball coach.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Rupp Arena

Rupp Arena is an arena located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. Since its opening in 1976, it has been the centerpiece of Lexington Center, a convention and shopping facility owned by an arm of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, which is located next to the Lexington Hyatt and Hilton hotels.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Seattle University

Seattle University (SU) is a Jesuit Catholic university in the northwestern United States, located in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

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Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament.

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Slats Gill

Amory Tingle "Slats" Gill (May 1, 1901 – April 5, 1966) was an American college basketball coach, the head coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis for 36 seasons.

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Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University (commonly referred to as SMU) is a private research university in metropolitan Dallas, with its main campus spanning portions of the town of Highland Park and the cities of University Park and Dallas.

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Steve Belko

Stephen Maxmillian Belko (February 14, 1916 – May 12, 2000) was an American college basketball coach at Idaho State College and the University of Oregon.

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U.S. Route 66

U.S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System.

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University of Colorado

The University of Colorado system is a system of public universities in Colorado consisting of four campuses: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver in downtown Denver and at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

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University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky (UK) is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky.

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University of Memphis

The University of Memphis, also called The U of M, is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee.

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University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco (USF) is a Jesuit Catholic university located in San Francisco, California, United States.

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University of Tulsa

The University of Tulsa (TU) is a private research university located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

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University of Utah

The University of Utah (also referred to as the U, U of U, or Utah) is a public coeducational space-grant research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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Villanova University

Villanova University is a private research university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the United States.

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Welsh-Ryan Arena

Welsh-Ryan Arena is an 8,117-seat multi-purpose arena in Evanston, Illinois, United States, on the campus of Northwestern University.

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West Texas A&M University

West Texas A&M University, also known as WTAMU, WT, and formerly West Texas State, part of the Texas A&M University System, is a public university located in Canyon, Texas, a city of 13,303 approximately 13 miles south of Amarillo, a city of 190,695.

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West Virginia University

West Virginia University (WVU) is a public, land-grant, space-grant, research-intensive university in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States.

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Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.

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1954–55 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team

The 1954–55 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented the University of Iowa in intercollegiate basketball during the 1954–55 season.

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1954–55 La Salle Explorers men's basketball team

Robert Ames, later a CIA official killed in the 1983 bombing of the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was a member of the 1954-55 Explorers.

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1954–55 San Francisco Dons men's basketball team

The 1954–55 San Francisco Dons men's basketball team represented the University of San Francisco in NCAA competition in the 1954–55 season.

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1955 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The 1955 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.

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1955 National Invitation Tournament

The 1955 National Invitation Tournament was the 1955 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_NCAA_Basketball_Tournament

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