The 1948 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

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. The 11th annual NAIA

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 basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format . The championship game featured Louisville beating Indiana State 82-70.

The only school to have won national titles in both the NAIA and NCAA Division I is Louisville

Louisville Cardinals men's basketball

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. Uniquely, Indiana State

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 has finished as the National Runner-up in the NAIA (1946

1946 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1946 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 9th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format...

 and 1948), the NCAA Division I (1979

1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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) and the NCAA Division II (1968

1968 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament

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) tournaments. Indiana State

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 won the NAIA in 1950

1950 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1950 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 13th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format . The championship game featured Indiana State University and East Central...

.

In 1948 the NAIA allowed black student-athletes to compete in the National Tournament.

Awards and honors

Many of the records set by the 1948 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:

• Leading scorer est. 1963
• Leading rebounder est. 1963
• Charles Stevenson Hustle Award est. 1958
• Coach of the Year est. 1954
• Player of the Year est. 1994
• All-time scoring leader; second appearance: Harold Haskins, 12th, Hamline (Minn.) (1947,48,49,50), 14 games, 104 field goals, 72 free throws, 280 total points, 20.0 average per game.

1948 NAIA bracket

•  * denotes overtime.

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.

See also

• 1948 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
  1948 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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• 1948 National Invitation Tournament
  1948 National Invitation Tournament
  The 1948 National Invitation Tournament was the 1948 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.-Selected teams:Below is a list of the 8 teams selected for the tournament.-Brackets/Results:Below is the tournament bracket....