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Season | 1952–53 | ||||
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Teams | 22 | ||||
Finals site | Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri | ||||
Champions | Indiana Hoosiers (2nd title, 2nd title game, 2nd Final Four) | ||||
Runner-up | Kansas Jayhawks (3rd title game, 3rd Final Four) | ||||
Semifinalists |
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Winning coach | Branch McCracken (2nd title) | ||||
MOP | B. H. Born (Kansas) | ||||
Attendance | 127,149 | ||||
Top scorer | Bob Houbregs (Washington) (139 points) | ||||
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The 1953 NCAA basketball tournament involved 22 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of NCAA college basketball. The 15th edition of the tournament began on March 10, 1953, and ended with the championship game on March 18 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 26 games were played, including a third-place game in each region and a national third-place game.
Indiana, coached by Branch McCracken, won the tournament title with a 69–68 victory in the final game over Kansas, coached by Phog Allen. B. H. Born of Kansas was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. The Hoosiers became the third team, after Oklahoma A&M in 1945–46 and Kentucky in 1948–49, to win two titles and the second of three teams to win titles in their first two tournament appearances (after Oklahoma A&M); however, unlike Oklahoma A&M before them and San Francisco after, their first two tournament appearances were 13 years apart.
The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 1953 tournament:
Region | Team | Coach | Conference | Finished | Final Opponent | Score |
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East | ||||||
East | DePaul | Ray Meyer | Independent | Regional Fourth Place | Penn | L 90–70 |
East | Eastern Kentucky | Paul McBrayer | Ohio Valley | First round | Notre Dame | L 72–57 |
East | Fordham | Johnny Bach | Metro NY | First round | Lebanon Valley | L 80–67 |
East | Holy Cross | Buster Sheary | Independent | Elite Eight | LSU | L 81–73 |
East | Indiana | Branch McCracken | Big Ten | Champion | Kansas | W 69–68 |
East | Lebanon Valley | Rinso Marquette | Independent | Regional Fourth Place | Wake Forest | L 91–71 |
East | LSU | Harry Rabenhorst | Southeastern | Fourth Place | Washington | L 88–69 |
East | Miami (OH) | Bill Rohr | Mid-American | First round | DePaul | L 74–72 |
East | Navy | Ben Carnevale | Independent | First round | Holy Cross | L 87–74 |
East | Notre Dame | John Jordan | Independent | Elite Eight | Indiana | L 79–66 |
East | Penn | Howie Dallmar | Ivy League | Regional third place | DePaul | W 90–70 |
East | Wake Forest | Murray Greason | Southern | Regional third place | Lebanon Valley | W 91–71 |
West | ||||||
West | Hardin–Simmons | Bill Scott | Border | First round | Santa Clara | L 81–56 |
West | Idaho State | Steve Belko | Independent | First round | Seattle | L 88–77 |
West | Kansas | Phog Allen | Big 7 | Runner Up | Indiana | L 69–68 |
West | Oklahoma City | Doyle Parrack | Independent | Regional Fourth Place | TCU | L 58–56 |
West | Oklahoma A&M | Henry Iba | Missouri Valley | Elite Eight | Kansas | L 61–55 |
West | Santa Clara | Bob Feerick | CBA | Elite Eight | Washington | L 74–62 |
West | Seattle | Al Brightman | Independent | Regional third place | Wyoming | W 80–64 |
West | TCU | Buster Brannon | Southwest | Regional third place | Oklahoma City | W 58–56 |
West | Washington | Tippy Dye | Pacific Coast | Third Place | LSU | W 88–69 |
West | Wyoming | Everett Shelton | Mountain States | Regional Fourth Place | Seattle | L 80–64 |
First Round | Regional Semifinals | Regional Finals | |||||||||
LSU | 89 | ||||||||||
Lebanon Valley | 80 | Lebanon Valley | 76 | ||||||||
Fordham | 67 | LSU | 81 | ||||||||
Holy Cross | 73 | ||||||||||
Wake Forest | 71 | ||||||||||
Holy Cross | 87 | Holy Cross | 79 | ||||||||
Navy | 74 | Third place | |||||||||
Lebanon Valley | 71 | ||||||||||
Wake Forest | 91 |
First Round | Regional Semifinals | Regional Finals | |||||||||
Penn | 57 | ||||||||||
Notre Dame | 72 | Notre Dame | 69 | ||||||||
Eastern Kentucky | 57 | Notre Dame | 66 | ||||||||
Indiana | 79 | ||||||||||
Indiana | 82 | ||||||||||
DePaul | 74 | DePaul | 80 | ||||||||
Miami (OH) | 72 | Third place | |||||||||
Penn | 90 | ||||||||||
DePaul | 70 |
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||
Oklahoma A&M | 71 | ||||||
TCU | 54 | ||||||
Oklahoma A&M | 55 | ||||||
Kansas | 61 | ||||||
Kansas | 73 | ||||||
Oklahoma City | 65 | Third place | |||||
TCU | 58 | ||||||
Oklahoma City | 56 |
First Round | Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | |||||||||
Washington | 92 | ||||||||||
Seattle | 88 | Seattle | 70 | ||||||||
Idaho State | 77 | Washington | 74 | ||||||||
Santa Clara | 62 | ||||||||||
Wyoming | 52 | ||||||||||
Santa Clara | 81 | Santa Clara | 67 | ||||||||
Hardin–Simmons | 56 | Third place | |||||||||
Seattle | 80 | ||||||||||
Wyoming | 64 |
National semifinal | National Championship | ||||||
LSU | 67 | ||||||
Indiana | 80 | ||||||
Indiana | 69 | ||||||
Kansas | 68 | ||||||
Kansas | 79 | ||||||
Washington | 53 | National Third Place | |||||
LSU | 69 | ||||||
Washington | 88 |