1939 NCAA basketball championship game

1939 NCAA Tournament Championship Game
National championship game
The Patten Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois hosted the championship game.
Oregon Webfoots Ohio State Buckeyes
PCC Big Ten
(28–5) (16–6)
46 33
Head coach:
Howard Hobson		 Head coach:
Harold Olsen
1st half2nd half Total
Oregon Webfoots 2125 46
Ohio State Buckeyes 1617 33
DateMarch 27, 1939
VenuePatten Gymnasium, Evanston, Illinois
RefereesLyle Clarno and John Getchell[1]
Attendance4,400–5,500
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The 1939 NCAA Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1939 NCAA basketball tournament and the first NCAA tournament title game. The contest was held on March 27, 1939, at Patten Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois, and determined the national champion in the 1938–39 NCAA men's basketball season. The Ohio State Buckeyes, the champions of the Big Ten Conference, faced the Oregon Webfoots, winners of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). Oregon won the game, 46–33, to claim the school's only national championship in men's college basketball.

  1. ^ 2017 Men's Final Four Records Book, p. 33.