OT - History of the NCAA tourney

Mark Padgett

Here's a link to an article on the history of the NCAA basketball tournament. I thought it was quite interesting, especially since it begins with info on the first ever tournament - won by the University of Oregon. No, that's not a typo.

The History of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

26 Year Gap

Nice article. Can't recall if CCNY won this tournament a couple times or if it was the NIT they won. Can you imagine the outcry if there was a one team per conference limit now? [would need to be a smaller field and many conferences would be much smaller]

sseltser

26 Year Gap wrote
Nice article. Can't recall if CCNY won this tournament a couple times or if it was the NIT they won. Can you imagine the outcry if there was a one team per conference limit now? [would need to be a smaller field and many conferences would be much smaller]

CCNY holds the distinction of being the only team to win both the NIT and NCAA Tournament in the same season. They did it in 1950, when the NIT occurred before the NCAA and teams could play in both.

Weekly Feature: Whereabouts Of The 1950 City College Of New York Team, NIT and NCAA Champs (Part I) – LostLettermen.com

Raymond

sseltser wrote
CCNY holds the distinction of being the only team to win both the NIT and NCAA Tournament in the same season. They did it in 1950, when the NIT occurred before the NCAA and teams could play in both.

Weekly Feature: Whereabouts Of The 1950 City College Of New York Team, NIT and NCAA Champs (Part I) – LostLettermen.com

I believe at the time the NIT was just as prestigious and the NCAA tournament.

sseltser

BadNewsRef wrote
I believe at the time the NIT was just as prestigious and the NCAA tournament.

The article I linked indicates it was more prestigious, probably in part because of the 1 team per conference rule.

DLH17

BadNewsRef wrote
I believe at the time the NIT was just as prestigious and the NCAA tournament.

I've always heard that the NIT was more prestigious than the NCAA back in the day.

eyezen

Ouch, reading that just hurt my head.

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

sseltser wrote
CCNY holds the distinction of being the only team to win both the NIT and NCAA Tournament in the same season. They did it in 1950, when the NIT occurred before the NCAA and teams could play in both.

Weekly Feature: Whereabouts Of The 1950 City College Of New York Team, NIT and NCAA Champs (Part I) – LostLettermen.com

Padgett and I officiated both championship games that year. I was the R in the NCAA game and he was the R in the NIT game because it was the second tournament and the more important tournament of the two. 😀

MTD, Sr.

P.S. We both still had our own hair back then. 😀

Rich

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. wrote
Padgett and I officiated both championship games that year. I was the R in the NCAA game and he was the R in the NIT game because it was the second tournament and the more important tournament of the two. 😀

MTD, Sr.

P.S. We both still had our own hair back then. 😃

Come clean, Mark. When was your first year?

Mark Padgett

RichMSN wrote
Come clean, Mark. When was your first year?

I can't speak for the "other" Mark, but the first game I worked was between two teams at the Springfield YMCA. My partner was Dr. Naismith. I still have splinters from handling the peach baskets.

Note to "other" Mark. I still have all my own hair. It's a trait that's inhairent in my family. 😀

BillyMac

Mark Padgett wrote
I still have all my own hair.

I really don't understand why balding men pick the hair out of the shower drain and keep it in a big plastic bag?

Mark Padgett

BillyMac wrote
I really don't understand why balding men pick the hair out of the shower drain and keep it in a big plastic bag?

There's a guy I ref with who is quite "follicley challenged", but he's such a good guy that we say he's not bald, he's just helping the environment by having a solar panel on his head. 😀

Nevadaref

sseltser wrote
CCNY holds the distinction of being the only team to win both the NIT and NCAA Tournament in the same season. They did it in 1950, when the NIT occurred before the NCAA and teams could play in both.

Weekly Feature: Whereabouts Of The 1950 City College Of New York Team, NIT and NCAA Champs (Part I) – LostLettermen.com

Amazing that they could win both tourneys while shaving points.

Mark Padgett

Nevadaref wrote
Amazing that they could win both tourneys while shaving points.

Everyone - sign along.

"Any points you can shave, I can shave better. I can shave any points better than you. No you can't. Yes I can. No you can't. Yes I can. No you can't. Yes I can, YES I CAN!"

Nevadaref

"Ed Warner was the MVP of the NIT thanks to his 21.7 points per game. After the scandal broke, all players involved pled guilty and received suspended sentences; except for Warner, who served six months in jail. He’d spend one more stint in prison for attempting to sell heroine. Following that, Warner went into high school officiating. In 1984 he was partly paralyzed after a car accident and became an observer of officials for NYC high schools."

😮

fullor30

I have a favorite book, Encyclopedia of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, which only goes up to 1990, but has every stat imaginable(does not name officials)🙁

Ask away!

fullor30

Mark Padgett wrote
Everyone - sign along.

"Any points you can shave, I can shave better. I can shave any points better than you. No you can't. Yes I can. No you can't. Yes I can. No you can't. Yes I can, YES I CAN!"

I don't know signing, but I have a pretty good voice.:rolleyes: