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1953 NCAA basketball championship game

National championship game
The Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, hosted the championship game.
Kansas Jayhawks
Indiana Hoosiers

Big Seven Big Ten

(19-5) (22-3)

68 69

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Indiana Hoosiers 412869 | Kansas Jayhawks | 41 | 27 | 68 | Indiana Hoosiers | 41 | 28 | 69 | | Kansas Jayhawks | 41 | 27 | 68 | | | | | | | Indiana Hoosiers | 41 | 28 | 69 | | | | | | | March 18, 1953 | | | | | | | | | | Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri | | | | | | | | | | B.H. Born, Kansas | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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.

West-1
- Kansas 73, Oklahoma City 65
- Kansas 61, Oklahoma A&M 55
Final Four
- Kansas 79, Washington 53
East-2
- Indiana 82, DePaul 80
- Indiana 79, Notre Dame 66
Final Four
- Indiana 80, LSU 67

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