1940 NCAA basketball tournament

Edition of USA college basketball tournament

1940 NCAA basketball tournamentTeams| 8

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Finals site| Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions| Indiana Hoosiers (1st title, 1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Runner-up| Kansas Jayhawks (1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Semifinalists|

* Duquesne Dukes (1st Final Four)
* USC Trojans (1st Final Four)

Winning coach| Branch McCracken (1st title)
MOP| Marvin Huffman (Indiana)
Attendance| 36,880
Top scorer| Howard Engleman (Kansas)
(39 points)
| NCAA Division I men's tournaments

«1939 | 1941»

The 1940 NCAA basketball tournament involved eight schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the participating champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. The second edition of the tournament began on March 20, 1940, and ended with the championship game on March 30 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of eight games were played, including a single third place game in the West region.

Indiana, coached by Branch McCracken, won the tournament title with a 60–42 victory in the final game over Kansas, coached by Phog Allen. Marvin Huffman of Indiana was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

This would be the only tournament to feature Springfield College, the school James Naismith worked for when he invented the sport of basketball. They were the first of fourteen colleges and universities to compete in the tournament that are no longer in Division I. This was also the first appearance of the Kansas Jayhawks, whose first coach was Naismith.

## Locations

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The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 1940 tournament:

### Regionals

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March 20 and 21
East Regional, Butler Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana (Host: Butler University)
West Regional, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference)

### Championship Game

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March 30

Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference)

## Teams

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East Regional - Indianapolis

School  | Coach  | Conference  | Record
Duquesne | Chick Davies | Independent  | 19–2
Indiana | Branch McCracken | Big Ten | 17–3
Springfield | Ed Hickox | Independent  | 16–2
Western Kentucky | Ed Diddle | SIAA | 24–5
West Regional - Kansas City

School  | Coach  | Conference  | Record
Colorado | Frosty Cox | Mountain States | 17–2
Kansas | Phog Allen | Big Six | 17–5
Rice | Buster Brannon | Southwest | 21–2
USC | Sam Barry | Pacific Coast | 19–2

## Bracket

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| Quarterfinals | | | Semifinals | | | Finals |

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| Indiana | 48 | | |
| Springfield | 24 |
| | Indiana | 39 |
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| | | Duquesne | 30 |
| Duquesne | 30 |

| Western Kentucky | 29 |
| | Indiana | 60 |
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| | | Kansas | 42 |
| USC | 38 | |

| Colorado | 32 |
| | USC | 42 |
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| | | Kansas | 43 |
| Kansas | 50 |

| Rice | 44 |

### Regional Third Place

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| West Regional Third Place |

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| Colorado | 56 |
| Rice | 60 |

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## See also

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* 1940 National Invitation Tournament
* 1940 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament

## References

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1. ^ "1940 NCAA basketball tournament". College Basketball Reference. Retrieved April 3, 2018.

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See also: Division I Women's Tournament, Division II Tournament, Division III Tournament

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Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball 1939–40 NCAA champions

* 7 Andy Zimmer
* 9 Chet Francis
* 10 Jay McCreary
* 32 Herm Schaefer
* 33 Curly Armstrong
* 34 Marv Huffman (MOP)
* 35 Bill Menke
* 36 Bob Dro

Head coach
Branch McCracken

Assistant coach
Ralph Graham
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