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{{Infobox NAIA Basketball Tournament |
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==1945 NAIA bracket== |
==1945 NAIA bracket== |
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Revision as of 15:19, 19 February 2015
Template:Infobox NAIA Basketball Tournament
The 1945 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 8th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 16 teams playing in a single-elimination format,[1] instead of the normal 32. The NAIA Semifinals featured four new teams for the first time since the inaugural year, 1937. The championship game featured Loyola University (La.) defeating Pepperdine University (Calif.) 49 to 35.
Awards and honors
Many of the records set by the 1945 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[2]
1945 NAIA bracket
| First Round | Elite Eight | NAIA National Semifinals | NAIA National Championship | ||||||||||||||||
| - | Central Methodist (Mo.) | 54 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Wisconsin–Eau Claire | 36 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Central Methodist | 48* | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Eastern Kentucky | 50 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Eastern Kentucky | 64 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Simpson (Iowa) | 42 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Eastern Kentucky | 34 | |||||||||||||||||
| TOP TIER | |||||||||||||||||||
| - | Pepperdine | 52 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | West Texas State | 54 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Wichita (Kan.) | 43 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | West Texas State | 45 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Pepperdine | 42 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Pepperdine (Calif.) | 77 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Peru State (Neb.) | 42 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Pepperdine | 35 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Loyola | 49 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Canterbury (Ind.) | 53 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Catawba (N.C) | 39 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Canterbury | 43 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Loyola | 50 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Loyola (La.) | 53 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Phillips (Okla.) | 31 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Loyola | 37 | |||||||||||||||||
| BOTTOM TIER | |||||||||||||||||||
| - | Southern Illinois | 35 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Southern Illinois | 64 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Washburn (Kan.) | 49 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Southern Illinois | 61 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Doane | 44 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Doane (Neb.) | 54 | |||||||||||||||||
| - | Eastern Washington | 51 | |||||||||||||||||
- * 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.
| NAIA Third Place Game | ||||
| - | Eastern Kentucky | 45 | ||
| - | Southern Illinois | 49 | ||