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| Date | March 18, 1953[1] | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri | ||||||||||||
| MVP | B.H. Born, Kansas[2] | ||||||||||||
The 1953 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 1953 NCAA basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1952-53 NCAA men's basketball season. The game was played on March 20, 1954, at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. It featured the Indiana Hoosiers of the Big Ten Conference, and the defending national champion Kansas Jayhawks of the Big Seven Conference. This was a rematch of the 1940 NCAA basketball championship game, which Indiana won.