National Campus Basketball Tournament

The National Campus Basketball Tournament was a college basketball postseason tournament hosted by Bradley University in 1951. After the point-shaving scandals over the previous year, some schools preferred that major tournaments be held at campus sites, rather than major neutral-site arenas such as Madison Square Garden, which was hosting the Final Four of both the NCAA and NIT tournaments at that time. Initially, 25 teams were invited by Bradley to apply for entry into a new postseason event that they would host. The field was ultimately whittled down to eight teams and began play with a doubleheader on March 27. The tournament was only held once and was won by Syracuse.[1][2][3][4]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
March 27, 28
 
 
Wyoming78
 
March 30
 
Duquesne61
 
Wyoming63
 
 
 
Bradley77
 
Bradley 75
 
March 31
 
Western Kentucky 71
 
Bradley75
 
 
 
Syracuse76
 
Syracuse69
 
 
 
Toledo 52
 
Syracuse74
 
 
 
Utah57 Third place
 
Utah67
 
 
 
Villanova 65
 
Utah55
 
 
Wyoming52
 

References

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  1. ^ "National Campus Tournament 1951". luckyshow.org.
  2. ^ Waters, Mike (March 31, 2020). "On this date: SU edges Bradley to win National Campus Tournament". syracuse.
  3. ^ "The Lantern 28 March 1951 — Ohio State University Newspaper Archives". osupublicationarchives.osu.edu.
  4. ^ The Daily Iowan