OT - History of the NCAA tourney

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Originally Posted by 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]

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