1938 National Invitation Tournament
Appearance
Tournament details | |
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City | New York City |
Venue(s) | Madison Square Garden |
Teams | 6 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Temple Owls (1st title) |
Runner-up | Colorado Buffaloes |
Semifinalists | |
Tournament statistics | |
MVP | Don Shields (Temple) |
The 1938 National Invitation Tournament was the 1938 edition of the annual NCAA basketball competition. It was the inaugural National Invitational Tournament and was won by Temple.
Selected teams[edit]
Below is a list of the six teams selected for the tournament.[1]
Team | Conference | Overall record |
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Bradley | Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | 18–1 |
Colorado | Mountain States Conference | 14–5 |
Long Island | Metropolitan New York Conference | 23–4 |
NYU | Metropolitan New York Conference | 15–6 |
Oklahoma A&M | Missouri Valley Conference | 24–2 |
Temple | Eastern Intercollegiate Conference | 20–2 |
Bracket[edit]
Below is the tournament bracket.[1]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
1 | Oklahoma A&M | 55 | ||||||||||||
4 | Temple | 53 | Temple | 56 | ||||||||||
5 | Bradley | 40 | Temple | 60 | ||||||||||
Colorado | 36 | |||||||||||||
2 | Colorado | 48 | ||||||||||||
3 | NYU | 39 | NYU | 47 | ||||||||||
6 | Long Island | 37 | Third place | |||||||||||
Oklahoma A&M | 37 | |||||||||||||
NYU | 24 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Tournament Results (1930's) at nit.org, URL accessed December 9, 2009. Archived 11/7/09