1946 NCAA basketball championship game
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.
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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 Aggie 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.