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NCAA Final Four Champion > La Salle > 1954 |
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1954 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams 24 Finals Site Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri Champions La Salle (1st title) Runner-Up Bradley (2nd title game) Semifinalists Penn State (1st Final Four) USC (2nd Final Four) Winning Coach Ken Loeffler (1st title) MOP Tom Gola La Salle Attendance 115,391 Top scorer Tom Gola La Salle (114 points) |
The 1954 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 24 schools playing
in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division
I college basketball. It began on March 8, 1954, and ended with the championship
game on March 20 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 28 games were played,
including a third place game in each region and a national third place game. La Salle, coached by Ken Loeffler, won the national title with a 92-76 victory in the final game over Bradley, coached by Forddy Anderson. Tom Gola of La Salle was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. |
March 18, 2008 UD Arena Dayton, Ohio Host: University of Dayton UD Arena Concierge March 20 and 22, 2008 Honda Center Anaheim, California Host: Big West Conference Honda Center Concierge Pepsi Center Denver, Colorado Hosts: Colorado State University Pepsi Center Concierge Qwest Center Omaha Omaha, Nebraska Hosts: Creighton University Qwest Center Omaha Concierge Verizon Center Washington, D.C. Host: Georgetown University Verizon Center Concierge March 21 and 23, 2008 BJCC Arena Birmingham, Alabama Host: Southeastern Conference BJCC Arena Concierge Alltel Arena Little Rock, Arkansas Host: University of Arkansas Alltel Arena Concierge RBC Center Raleigh, North Carolina Host: North Carolina State University RBC Center Concierge St. Pete Times Forum Tampa, Florida Host: University of South Florida St Pete Times Forum Concierge March 27 and 29, 2008 East Regional Charlotte Bobcats Arena Charlotte, North Carolina Host: University of North Carolina Charlotte Arena Concierge West Regional US Airways Center Phoenix, Arizona Host: Arizona State University US Airways Center Concierge March 28 and 30, 2008 Midwest Regional Ford Field Detroit, Michigan Host: University of Detroit Mercy Ford Field Concierge South Regional Reliant Stadium Houston, Texas Host: University of Houston and Rice Reliant Stadium Concierge Final Four: April 5 and 7, 2008 Alamodome San Antonio, Texas Host: Univ. of Texas-San Antonio Alamodome Concierge |
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The La Salle Explorers Men's Basketball Team is a historic basketball program at
La Salle University. The program has been rated the 53rd "Greatest College Basketball
Program of All-Time" by Street & Smith's magazine. La Salle has won one National Championship, one National Invitation Tournament Championship, and advanced to two Final Fours. |
The Explorers have also won eight city championships and four Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference Championships. La Salle has also had three National Players of
the Year - only Duke University has more. he 2004 La Salle University men's basketball scandal, often simply referred to as the La Salle rape scandal, was an incident that began in June 2004, in which three members of the La Salle University men's basketball team were accused of rape in two separate incidents. Gary Neal and Mike Cleaves were acquitted on November 4, 2005 in one incident. |
Charges against Dzaflo Larkai were later dropped in the second incident, after the
accuser refused to testify. As a result of the incident, all three players were
placed on interim suspension from the university, and none returned. The head
coaches of both the men's and women's basketball team, Billy Hahn and John Miller,
were forced to resign after it came to light that both of them failed to
report the incident - a violation of the federal law known as the Clery Act.. |