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The 1956 NCAA basketball tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA college basketball. It began on March 12, 1956, and ended with the championship game on March 24 on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, Illinois. A total of 29 games were played, including a third-place game in each region and a national third-place game.
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Season | 1955–56 | ||||
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Teams | 25 | ||||
Finals site | McGaw Hall Evanston, Illinois | ||||
Champions | San Francisco Dons (2nd title, 2nd title game, 2nd Final Four) | ||||
Runner-up | Iowa Hawkeyes (1st title game, 2nd Final Four) | ||||
Semifinalists |
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Winning coach | Phil Woolpert (2nd title) | ||||
MOP | Hal Lear (Temple) | ||||
Attendance | 132,513 | ||||
Top scorer | Hal Lear (Temple) (160 points) | ||||
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The 1955–56 season was the last in which only one NCAA Tournament was held. Effective in 1956–57, the NCAA divided its membership into two competitive levels. The larger and more competitive athletic programs were placed in the University Division, and smaller programs in the College Division. Accordingly, that season would see separate tournaments contested in the University and College Divisions. In 1973, the University Division would be renamed NCAA Division I, while the College Division would be split into today's Divisions II and III.
This was the first NCAA tournament in which the four regionals were given distinct names, although the concept of four regional winners advancing to a single site for the "Final Four" had been introduced in 1952.
San Francisco, coached by Phil Woolpert, won the national title with an 83–71 victory in the final game over Iowa, coached by Bucky O'Connor. Hal Lear of Temple was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Round | Region | Site | Venue |
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First Round | East | New York, New York | Madison Square Garden |
Far West | Seattle, Washington | Hec Edmundson Pavilion | |
Midwest | Fort Wayne, Indiana | Allen County War Memorial Coliseum | |
West | Wichita, Kansas | U. of Wichita Field House | |
Regionals | East | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | The Palestra |
Far West | Corvallis, Oregon | Oregon State Coliseum | |
Midwest | Iowa City, Iowa | Iowa Field House | |
West | Lawrence, Kansas | Allen Fieldhouse | |
Final Four | Evanston, Illinois | McGaw Memorial Hall |
* – Denotes overtime period
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
Connecticut | 84 | ||||||||||
Manhattan | 75 | ||||||||||
Connecticut | 59 | ||||||||||
Temple | 65 | ||||||||||
Temple | 74 | ||||||||||
Holy Cross | 72 | ||||||||||
Temple | 60 | ||||||||||
Canisius | 58 | ||||||||||
Dartmouth | 61 | ||||||||||
West Virginia | 59* | ||||||||||
Dartmouth | 58 | Third place | |||||||||
Canisius | 66 | ||||||||||
Canisius | 79 | Dartmouth | 85 | ||||||||
NC State | 78**** | Connecticut | 64 |
First round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
Iowa | 97 | |||||||||
Morehead State | 107 | Morehead State | 83 | |||||||
Marshall | 92 | Iowa | 89 | |||||||
Kentucky | 77 | |||||||||
Kentucky | 84 | |||||||||
Wayne State (MI) | 72 | Wayne State | 64 | Third place | ||||||
DePaul | 63 | |||||||||
Morehead State | 95 | |||||||||
Wayne State | 84 | |||||||||
First round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
Houston | 74 | |||||||||
SMU | 68 | SMU | 89 | |||||||
Texas Tech | 67 | SMU | 84 | |||||||
Oklahoma City | 63 | |||||||||
Kansas State | 93 | |||||||||
Oklahoma City | 97 | Oklahoma City | 97 | Third place | ||||||
Memphis State | 81 | |||||||||
Kansas State | 89 | |||||||||
Houston | 70 | |||||||||
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
Utah | 81 | ||||||||||
Seattle | 72 | ||||||||||
Seattle | 68 | ||||||||||
Idaho State | 66 | ||||||||||
Utah | 77 | ||||||||||
San Francisco | 92 | ||||||||||
San Francisco | 72 | Third place | |||||||||
UCLA | 61 | ||||||||||
UCLA | 94 | ||||||||||
Seattle | 70 |
National Semifinals | National Championship Game | ||||||||
E | Temple | 76 | |||||||
MW | Iowa | 83 | |||||||
MW | Iowa | 71 | |||||||
FW | San Francisco | 83 | |||||||
W | SMU | 68 | |||||||
FW | San Francisco | 86 | National third-place game | ||||||
Temple | 90 | ||||||||
SMU | 81 |
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