1949 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament

1949 (1949) NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
1949 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Teams	32
Champions	Hamline (Minn.) ; (2nd title, 2nd title game,; 4th Fab Four)
Runner-Up	Regis (Colo.) ; (1st title game,; 1st Fab Four)
Semifinalists	Beloit (Wis.); Indiana State
Chuck Taylor MVP	Hal Haskins ; (Hamline (Minn.))

The 1949 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 12th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.^[1] The championship game featured Hamline University defeating Regis College 57 to 46. Hamline's championship win would make them the first team to win 2 non-consecutive tournaments (1942, and 1949). Regis University in their first tournament appearance would finish as the National Runner-Up, but it would be the highest finish Regis would ever see of the 5 tournament appearances. Regis would make it back to the NAIA Semifinals in 1951, only to finish in 4th place.

Awards and honors[]

Many of the records set by the 1949 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; third 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.^[2]

1949 NAIA bracket[]

First Round			Second Round			Elite Eight			NAIA National Semifinals			NAIA National Championship

-	Hamline (Minn.)	76

-	Arkansas State	43
			-	Hamline	83

			-	Indiana Central	66
-	Indiana Central	72

-	Connecticut Teachers	59
						-	Hamline	80
TOP TIER
						-	Texas Tech	56
-	Texas Tech	79

-	Western Montana	43
			-	Texas Tech	62

			-	North Dakota	57
-	North Dakota	70

-	Hawaii	53
									-	Hamline	52

									-	Beloit	43
-	Southwest Missouri State	59

-	Portland (Ore.)	56
			-	Southwest Missouri State	47

			-	Beloit	66
-	Beloit (Wis.)	96

-	Waynesburg (Pa.)	56
						-	Beloit	65
TOP TIER
						-	Eastern Illinois State	64
-	Eastern Illinois State	89

-	Miami (Fla.)	73
			-	Eastern Illinois State	81

			-	San Jose State	75
-	San Jose State (Calif.)	63

-	Lawrence Tech (Mich.)	52
												-	Hamline	57

												-	Regis	46
-	Loyola (Md.)	79

-	Cedarville (Ohio)	67
			-	Loyola (Md.)	58

			-	Indiana State	78
-	Indiana State	60

-	Eastern New Mexico	42
						-	Indiana State	67
BOTTOM TIER
						-	Emporia State	66
-	Iowa State Teachers	65

-	River Falls State (Wis.)	64
			-	Iowa State Teachers	49

			-	Emporia State	63
-	Emporia State (Kan.)	67

-	Delta State (Miss.)	57
									-	Indiana State	45**

									-	Regis	48
-	Regis (Colo.)	71

-	Erskine (S.C.)	47
			-	Regis	53

			-	St. Thomas	52
-	St. Thomas (Minn.)	74

-	Peru State (Neb.)	44
						-	Regis	56
BOTTOM TIER
						-	Northwestern State	51
-	Northwestern State (La.)	70

-	Puget Sound (Wash.)	58
			-	Northwestern State	59

			-	Brigham Young	57
-	Brigham Young (Utah)	79

-	Northwestern Oklahoma State	50

* denotes each 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

-	Beloit	67

-	Indiana State	59

References[]

^ "NAIA.org". Archived from the original on 2009-05-05. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
^ NAIA Championship History Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "NAIA.org". Archived from the original on 2009-05-05. Retrieved 2020-05-16.

[2] NAIA Championship History Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine

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