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1943 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams 8 Finals Site Madison Square Garden New York City Champions Wyoming (1st title) Runner-Up Georgetown (1st title game) Semifinalists DePaul (1st Final Four) Texas (1st Final Four) Winning Coach Everett Shelton (1st title) MOP Ken Sailors Wyoming Attendance 56,876 Top scorer John Hargis Texas (59 points) |
The 1943 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in
single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division
I college basketball. It began on March 24, 1943, and ended with the championship
game on March 30 in New York City. A total of 9 games were played, including
a third place game in each region. Wyoming, coached by Everett Shelton, won the national title with a 46-34 victory in the final game over Georgetown, coached by Elmer Ripley. Ken Sailors of Wyoming was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. |
Wyoming has made a total of 14 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, though the closest
it has come to the lofty heights of the 1943 team was a Sweet 16 appearance
in 1987. Since the Mountain West was formed in 1999, Wyoming has won two conference
titles, including an outright championship in 2002. Prior to that, Wyoming
won five championships in the Western Athletic Conference, eight championships
in the Skyline Conference, and one championship in the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference. |
The University of Wyoming men's basketball program, which currently competes in the
Mountain West Conference, has a lengthy tradition dating back to 1905. Cowboys
fans can claim something that few other teams' fans can: an NCAA Championship,
won in 1943 under Hall of Fame coach Everett Shelton and behind star guard Ken
Sailors, who pioneered the jump shot that is now the standard in basketball.
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The Wyoming basketball program began in 1904 when a group known as the "Laramie Town
Team" challenged a team from the university to a basketball game; Wyoming won
that game by a score of 17-5. The team became a powerhouse in the 1930s under
coach Willard "Dutch" Witte, who led the 1934 Cowboy team to a 26-3 record. In
those days before the NCAA Tournament had begun, college basketball's national
champion was determined by a set of poll voters for the Helms Foundation, which
selected Wyoming as its national champion. Witte coached a total of nine seasons
in Laramie and compiled a 134-51 record. |
