1949 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

1949 (1949) NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Teams 32
Finals Site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions Hamline (Minn.)
(2nd title, 2nd title game,
4th Final Four)
Runner-Up Regis (Colo.)
(1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Semifinalists Beloit (Wis.)
(1st Final Four)
Indiana State
(3rd Final Four)
Chuck Taylor MVP Hal Haskins
(Hamline (Minn.))
NAIA Men's Division I Tournaments
← 1948 1950 →

The 1949 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 12th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.[1] The championship game featured Hamline University defeating Regis College 57 to 46. Hamline's championship win would make them the first team to win 2 non-consecutive tournaments (1942, and 1949). Regis University in their first tournament appearance would finish as the National Runner-Up, but it would be the highest finish Regis would ever see of the 5 tournament appearances. Regis would make it back to the NAIA Semifinals in 1951, only to finish in 4th place.

Awards and honors

Many of the records set by the 1949 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:

1949 NAIA bracket

First Round Second Round Elite Eight NAIA National Semifinals NAIA National Championship
               
- Hamline (Minn.) 76
- Arkansas State 43
- Hamline 83
- Indiana Central 66
- Indiana Central 72
- Connecticut Teachers 59
- Hamline 80
TOP TIER
- Texas Tech 56
- Texas Tech 79
- Western Montana 43
- Texas Tech 62
- North Dakota 57
- North Dakota 70
- Hawaii 53
- Hamline 52
- Beloit 43
- Southwest Missouri State 59
- Portland (Ore.) 56
- Southwest Missouri State 47
- Beloit 66
- Beloit (Wis.) 96
- Waynesburg (Pa.) 56
- Beloit 65
TOP TIER
- Eastern Illinois State 64
- Eastern Illinois State 89
- Miami (Fla.) 73
- Eastern Illinois State 81
- San Jose State 75
- San Jose State (Calif.) 63
- Lawrence Tech (Mich.) 52
- Hamline 57
- Regis 46
- Loyola (Md.) 79
- Cedarville (Ohio) 67
- Loyola (Md.) 58
- Indiana State 78
- Indiana State 60
- Eastern New Mexico 42
- Indiana State 67
BOTTOM TIER
- Emporia State 66
- Iowa State Teachers 65
- River Falls State (Wis.) 64
- Iowa State Teachers 49
- Emporia State 63
- Emporia State (Kan.) 67
- Delta State (Miss.) 57
- Indiana State 45**
- Regis 48
- Regis (Colo.) 71
- Erskine (S.C.) 47
- Regis 53
- St. Thomas 52
- St. Thomas (Minn.) 74
- Peru State (Neb.) 44
- Regis 56
BOTTOM TIER
- Northwestern State 51
- Northwestern State (La.) 70
- Puget Sound (Wash.) 58
- Northwestern State 59
- Brigham Young 57
- Brigham Young (Utah) 79
- Northwestern Oklahoma State 50

3rd place game

The third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.

NAIA Third Place Game
   
- Beloit 67
- Indiana State 59

References

  1. ↑ NAIA.org
  2. ↑ NAIA Championship History

See also

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