1957 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

1957 (1957) NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Teams 32
Finals Site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions Tennessee State
(1st title, 1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Runner-Up Southeastern Oklahoma State
(2nd title game,
3rd Final Four)
Semifinalists Pacific Lutheran (Wash.)
(1st Final Four)
Eastern Illinois
(1st Final Four)
Coach of the Year Bloomer Sullivan
(Southeastern Oklahoma State)
Chuck Taylor MVP Jim Spivey
(Southeastern Oklahoma State)
NAIA Men's Division I Tournaments
← 1956 1958 →

The 1957 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 20th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.[1] This would be the first tournament to have seeded teams. This also means that this is the first tournament to have an 'upset'. There were 3 upsets this year, including the championship game. The NAIA seeded teams 21 years prior to the NCAA Men's Tournament. The NAIA would adjust seeding to the current, 16 seed system, in 1959. The championship game featured Tennessee State University and Southeastern Oklahoma State University. With Tennessee State's win, they became the first historically black institution to win a collegiate basketball national championship.[2] This would be the first of three national championship titles for Tennessee State.

The 3rd place game featured Pacific Lutheran University defeating Eastern Illinois University.

Awards and honors

Many of the records set by the 1957 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:

1957 NAIA bracket

First Round Second Round Elite Eight NAIA National Semifinals NAIA National Championship
               
1 Pacific Lutheran (Wash.) 76
- Elon (N.C.) 61
1 Pacific Lutheran 105
- Stetson 83
- Stetson (Fla.) 100
- Wayne State (Neb.) 84
1 Pacific Lutheran 91
TOP TIER
8 Texas Southern 72
- Ball State (Ind.) 98
- Troy State (Ala.) 70
- Ball State 72
8 Texas Southern 97
- New Haven State (Conn.) 66
8 Texas Southern 67
1 Pacific Lutheran 70
- Tennessee State 71
5 Portland (Ore.) 77
- Austin Peay State (Tenn.) 65
5 Portland 70
- Tennessee State 87
- Tennessee State 87
- Adrian (Mich.) 69
- Tennessee State 90
TOP TIER
4 Western Illinois State 88
- William Jewell (Mo.) 70
- Adelphi (N.Y.) 69*
- William Jewell 67
4 Western Illinois State 80
- Southern State (Ark.) 70
4 Western Illinois State 101
- Tennessee State 92
7 Southeastern Oklahoma State 73
3 West Virginia Tech 91
- Villa Madonna (Ky.) 93
Villa Madonna 78
- Eastern Illinois State 110
- Eastern Illinois State 88
- New Mexico Highlands 76
- Eastern Illinois State 88
BOTTOM TIER
6 Hamline 83
- Stevens Point State (Wis.) 93
- Millersville State (Pa.) 85
- Stevens Point Statee 69
6 Hamline 81
- Wayland Baptist (Texas) 72
6 Hamline (Minn.) 75
- Eastern Illinois 81
7 Southeastern Oklahoma State 95
7 Southeastern Oklahoma State 82
- Northwest Nazarene (Idaho) 58
7 Southeastern Oklahoma State 98
- Southwest Texas State 78
- Southwest Texas State 104
- Upper Iowa 71
7 Southeastern Oklahoma State 69
BOTTOM TIER
2 Youngstown 65
- Emporia State (Kan.) 82
- Northern State (S.D.) 66
- Emporia State 74
2 Youngstown 80
- Westmont (Calif.) 75
2 Youngstown (Ohio) 81

3rd place game

The third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.

NAIA Third Place Game
   
1 Pacific Lutheran 87
- Eastern Illinois 85

References

  1. ↑ NAIA.org
  2. ↑ NAIA History Archived November 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ NAIA Championship History

See also

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