1955 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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The 1955 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 24 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 8, 1955, and ended with the championship game on March 19 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 28 games were played.

San Francisco, coached by Phil Woolpert, won the national title with a 77-63 victory in the final game over La Salle, coached by Ken Loeffler. Bill Russell of San Francisco was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Contents 1 Locations 2 Teams 3 Bracket 3.1 East region 3.2 West region 3.3 Final Four 4 External links

[edit] Locations

Region	Site	Other Locations
East	Evanston, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Lexington, Kentucky, New York City, New York
West	Corvallis, Oregon, Manhattan, Kansas	El Reno, Oklahoma, San Francisco, California
Finals	Kansas City, Missouri

[edit] Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final Opponent	Score
East
East	n/a	Canisius	Joseph Curran	Elite Eight	La Salle	L 99-64
East	n/a	Duke	Harold Bradley	Round of 32	Villanova	L 74-73
East	n/a	Iowa	Bucky O'Connor	Fourth Place	Colorado	L 75-54
East	n/a	Kentucky	Adolph Rupp	Regional Third Place	Penn State	W 84-59
East	n/a	La Salle	Ken Loeffler	Runner Up	San Francisco	L 77-63
East	n/a	Marquette	Jack Nagle	Elite Eight	Iowa	L 86-81
East	n/a	Memphis State	Eugene Lambert	Round of 32	Penn State	L 59-55
East	n/a	Miami, Ohio	Bill Rohr	Round of 32	Marquette	L 90-79
East	n/a	Penn State	John Egli	Regional Fourth Place	Kentucky	L 84-59
East	n/a	Princeton	Franklin Cappon	Regional Fourth Place	Villanova	L 64-57
East	n/a	Villanova	Alex Severance	Regional Third Place	Princeton	W 64-57
East	n/a	West Virginia	Fred Schaus	Round of 32	La Salle	L 95-61
East	n/a	Williams	Alex Shaw	Round of 32	Canisius	L 73-60
West
West	n/a	Bradley	Bob Vanatta	Elite Eight	Colorado	L 93-81
West	n/a	Colorado	Bebe Lee	Third Place	Iowa	W 75-54
West	n/a	Idaho State	Steve Belko	Round of 32	Seattle	L 80-63
West	n/a	Oklahoma City	Doyle Parrack	Round of 32	Bradley	L 69-65
West	n/a	Oregon State	Slats Gill	Elite Eight	San Francisco	L 57-56
West	n/a	San Francisco	Phil Woolpert	Champion	La Salle	W 77-63
West	n/a	Seattle	Al Brightman	Regional Fourth Place	Utah	L 108-85
West	n/a	SMU	Doc Hayes	Regional Fourth Place	Tulsa	L 68-67
West	n/a	Tulsa	Clarence Iba	Regional Third Place	SMU	W 68-67
West	n/a	Utah	Jack Gardner	Regional Third Place	Seattle	W 108-85
West	n/a	West Texas State	Gus Miller	Round of 32	San Francisco	L 89-66

[edit] Bracket

[edit] East region

	First round					Second round					Sweet Sixteen					Elite Eight
							Kentucky	71
							Marquette	79
		Marquette	90
		Miami-OH	79
												Marquette	81
											Iowa	86
							Iowa	82
							Penn St	53
		Penn St	59
		Memphis St	55
																	Iowa
																	La Salle
							Princeton	46
							La Salle	73
		La Salle	95
		West Virginia	61
												La Salle	99
											Canisius	64
		Canisius	73
		Williams	60
							Canisius	73
							Villanova	71
		Villanova	74
		Duke	73

[edit] West region

	First round					Second round					Sweet Sixteen					Elite Eight
							SMU	79
							Bradley	81
		Bradley	69
		Oklahoma City	65
												Bradley	81
											Colorado	93
							Colorado	69
							Tulsa	59
																	Colorado
																	San Francisco
							Oregon St	83
							Seattle	71
		Seattle	80
		Idaho St	63
												Oregon St	56
											San Francisco	57
							Utah	59
							San Francisco	78
		San Francisco	89
		West Texas St	66

[edit] Final Four

	National Semifinals					National Finals
		La Salle	76
		Iowa	73
							La Salle	63
							San Francisco	77
		San Francisco	62
		Colorado	50

[edit] External links

• 1955 NCAA Basketball Tournament on Shrp Sports (source for the bracket)
• HoopsTournament.Net, source for much of the information on this page.

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