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Date | March 26, 1952[1] | ||||||||||||
Venue | Hec Edmundson Pavilion, Seattle, Washington | ||||||||||||
MVP | Clyde Lovellette, Kansas[2] | ||||||||||||
The 1952 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 1952 NCAA basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1951-52 NCAA men's basketball season. The game was played on March 26, 1952, at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington. It featured the St. John's Redmen of the Metropolitan New York Conference, and the Kansas Jayhawks of the Big Seven Conference.