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 18, 1953, 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, and the first national championship game rematch in tournament history, a phenomenon that has only repeated twice since, in 1962 and 2022.
Participating teams
Kansas Jayhawks
West-1 Kansas 73, Oklahoma City 65 Kansas 61, Oklahoma A&M 55 Final Four Kansas 79, Washington 53
Indiana Hoosiers
East-2 Indiana 82, DePaul 80 Indiana 79, Notre Dame 66 Final Four Indiana 80, LSU 67
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