1939 NCAA basketball championship game
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The Patten Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois, hosted the first national championship game. | |||||||||||||
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| Date | March 27, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Patten Gymnasium, Evanston, Illinois | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Lyle Clarno and John Getchell | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 4,400–5,500 | ||||||||||||
The 1939 NCAA Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1939 NCAA basketball tournament and the first NCAA tournament title game. The contest was held on March 27, 1939, at Patten Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois, and determined the national champion in the 1938–39 NCAA men's basketball season. The Ohio State Buckeyes, the champions of the Big Ten Conference, faced the Oregon Webfoots, winners of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). Oregon won the game, 46–33, to claim the school's only national championship in men's college basketball.