1957 NCAA University Division basketball tournament
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Season | 1956–57 | ||||
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Teams | 23 | ||||
Finals site | Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri | ||||
Champions | North Carolina Tar Heels (1st title, 2nd title game, 2nd Final Four) | ||||
Runner-up | Kansas Jayhawks (4th title game, 4th Final Four) | ||||
Semifinalists |
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Winning coach | Frank McGuire (1st title) | ||||
MOP | Wilt Chamberlain (Kansas) | ||||
Attendance | 108,891 | ||||
Top scorer | Lennie Rosenbluth (North Carolina) (140 points) | ||||
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The 1957 NCAA University Division basketball tournament involved 23 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's college basketball in the NCAA University Division, replaced in 1973 by NCAA Division I. The 1956–57 school year was the first in which NCAA members were formally divided into separate competitive levels, with larger and more competitive athletic programs placed in the University Division and smaller programs placed in the College Division (which would be replaced by NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III in 1973).
The 19th edition of the NCAA tournament began on March 11, 1957, and ended with the championship game on March 23 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 27 games were played, including a third-place game in each region and a national third-place game. North Carolina, coached by Frank McGuire, won the national title with a 54–53 triple-overtime victory in the final game over Kansas, coached by Dick Harp. Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas became the fourth player to be named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player despite not playing for the championship team.
Tournament notes
North Carolina won two consecutive triple overtime games to win the championship. The North Carolina – Michigan State semi final game and North Carolina – Kansas final game both made USA Today's list of the greatest NCAA tournament games of all time at 11 and 6 respectively.[1]
Locations
Round | Region | Site | Venue |
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First Round | East | New York, New York | Madison Square Garden |
Mideast | Columbus, Ohio | St. John Arena | |
Midwest | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Capitol Hill High School Arena | |
West | Pocatello, Idaho | ISU Gymnasium | |
Regionals | East | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The Palestra |
Mideast | Lexington, Kentucky | Memorial Coliseum | |
Midwest | Dallas, Texas | SMU Coliseum | |
West | Corvallis, Oregon | Oregon State Coliseum | |
Final Four | Kansas City, Missouri | Municipal Auditorium |
For the seventh time, Kansas City and the Municipal Auditorium hosted the Final Four. This tied the record, with Madison Square Garden, of hosting the most Final Fours in a single arena all-time, a record it would break in 1961 and which it still holds today. Once again, four new sites were used for the tournament. In the Midwest Regional, Southern Methodist University and the city of Dallas hosted tournament games for the first time at the SMU Coliseum, in its first year of operation. This marked the first games ever in the state of Texas, and the first in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Three of the first round sites were also new. In Columbus, another new building, St. John Arena on the campus of Ohio State University, hosted games for the first time, the first games held in the state of Ohio. The state of Idaho became the first of the western mountain states to host games, at Reed Gymnasium on the campus of Idaho State College in Pocatello. And for the second time in three years, Oklahoma City University hosted the first round at a high school gymnasium, this time at the Capitol Hill High School Gym, a 4,000 seat gym in the southern part of the city. The city would not host games again for twenty years, until the Myriad Convention Center began hosting tournament games. This would also be the only time Reed Gym would host games; subsequent games in Pocatello would be hosted at the Minidome, its successor as home to the Bengals men's basketball team.
Teams
Region | Team | Coach | Conference | Finished | Final Opponent | Score |
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East | ||||||
East | Canisius | Joseph Curran | WNY3 | Regional third place | Lafayette | W 82–76 |
East | Connecticut | Hugh Greer | Yankee | First round | Syracuse | L 82–76 |
East | Lafayette | George Davidson | Independent | Regional Fourth Place | Canisius | L 82–76 |
East | North Carolina | Frank McGuire | Atlantic Coast | Champion | Kansas | W 54–53 |
East | Syracuse | Marc Guley | Independent | Regional Runner-up | North Carolina | L 67–58 |
East | West Virginia | Fred Schaus | Southern | First round | Canisius | L 64–56 |
East | Yale | Joe Vancisin | Ivy League | First round | North Carolina | L 90–74 |
Mideast | ||||||
Mideast | Kentucky | Adolph Rupp | Southeastern | Regional Runner-up | Michigan State | L 80–68 |
Mideast | Miami (OH) | Bill Rohr | Mid-American | First round | Notre Dame | L 89–77 |
Mideast | Michigan State | Forddy Anderson | Big Ten | Fourth Place | San Francisco | L 67–60 |
Mideast | Morehead State | Bobby Laughlin | Ohio Valley | First round | Pittsburgh | L 86–85 |
Mideast | Notre Dame | John Jordan | Independent | Regional third place | Pittsburgh | W 86–85 |
Mideast | Pittsburgh | Bob Timmons | Independent | Regional Fourth Place | Notre Dame | L 86–85 |
Midwest | ||||||
Midwest | Kansas | Dick Harp | Big 7 | Runner Up | North Carolina | L 54–53 |
Midwest | Loyola (LA) | Jim McCafferty | Independent | First round | Oklahoma City | L 76–55 |
Midwest | Oklahoma City | Abe Lemons | Independent | Regional Runner-up | Kansas | L 81–61 |
Midwest | SMU | Doc Hayes | Southwest | Regional third place | Saint Louis | W 78–68 |
Midwest | Saint Louis | Eddie Hickey | Missouri Valley | Regional Fourth Place | SMU | L 78–68 |
West | ||||||
West | BYU | Stan Watts | Mountain States | Regional third place | Idaho State | W 65–54 |
West | California | Pete Newell | Pacific Coast | Regional Runner-up | San Francisco | L 50–46 |
West | Hardin–Simmons | Bill Scott | Border | First round | Idaho State | L 68–57 |
West | Idaho State | John Grayson | Independent | Regional Fourth Place | BYU | L 65–54 |
West | San Francisco | Phil Woolpert | West Coast Athletic | Third Place | Michigan State | W 67–60 |
Bracket
* – Denotes overtime period
East region
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Lafayette | 71 | |||||||||||||
Syracuse | 75 | |||||||||||||
Syracuse | 82 | |||||||||||||
Connecticut | 76 | |||||||||||||
Syracuse | 58 | |||||||||||||
North Carolina | 67 | |||||||||||||
Canisius | 64 | |||||||||||||
West Virginia | 56 | |||||||||||||
Canisius | 75 | Third place | ||||||||||||
North Carolina | 87 | |||||||||||||
North Carolina | 90 | Canisius | 82 | |||||||||||
Yale | 74 | Lafayette | 76 |
Mideast region
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Kentucky | 98 | |||||||||||||
Pittsburgh | 92 | |||||||||||||
Pittsburgh | 86 | |||||||||||||
Morehead State | 85 | |||||||||||||
Kentucky | 68 | |||||||||||||
Michigan State | 80 | |||||||||||||
Notre Dame | 89 | |||||||||||||
Miami (OH) | 77 | |||||||||||||
Notre Dame | 83 | Third place | ||||||||||||
Michigan State | 85 | |||||||||||||
Notre Dame | 86 | |||||||||||||
Pittsburgh | 85 |
Midwest region
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
Saint Louis | 66 | |||||||||||||
Oklahoma City | 75 | |||||||||||||
Oklahoma City | 76 | |||||||||||||
Loyola (LA) | 55 | |||||||||||||
Oklahoma City | 61 | |||||||||||||
Kansas | 81 | |||||||||||||
Kansas | 73 | Third place | ||||||||||||
SMU | 65* | |||||||||||||
SMU | 78 | |||||||||||||
Saint Louis | 68 |
West region
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
California | 86 | |||||||||||||
BYU | 59 | |||||||||||||
California | 46 | |||||||||||||
San Francisco | 50 | |||||||||||||
Idaho State | 68 | |||||||||||||
Hardin–Simmons | 57 | |||||||||||||
Idaho State | 51 | Third place | ||||||||||||
San Francisco | 66 | |||||||||||||
BYU | 65 | |||||||||||||
Idaho St. | 54 |
Final Four
National Semifinals | National Championship Game | ||||||||
E | North Carolina | 74 | |||||||
ME | Michigan State | 70*** | |||||||
E | North Carolina | 54 | |||||||
MW | Kansas | 53*** | |||||||
MW | Kansas | 80 | |||||||
W | San Francisco | 56 | National Third Place Game | ||||||
W | San Francisco | 67 | |||||||
ME | Michigan State | 60 |
See also
- 1957 NCAA College Division basketball tournament
- 1957 National Invitation Tournament
- 1957 NAIA Basketball Tournament
References
- ^ Mike Douchant – Greatest 63 games in NCAA Tournament history. The Sports Xchange, published in USA Today, March 25, 2002