1946 NCAA basketball championship game
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Madison Square Garden in New York City hosted the championship game. | |||||||||||||
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| Date | March 26, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Bob Kurland, Oklahoma A&M | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | Oklahoma A&M by 8 ½ | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Jocko Collins & Pat Kennedy | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 18,479 | ||||||||||||
The 1946 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game took place on March 26, 1946, between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Oklahoma A&M Aggies at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The match-up was the final one of the eighth consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship single-elimination tournament — commonly referred to as the NCAA Tournament — organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is used to crown a national champion for men's basketball at the Division I level.
The Aggies won their second consecutive NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship. Bob Kurland was named the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player for his efforts throughout the tournament, an honor which he won in the previous year's tournament.