1939 NCAA basketball championship game information
American collegiate basketball final
1939 NCAA Tournament Championship Game
National championship game
Oregon Webfoots
Ohio State Buckeyes
PCC
Big Ten
(28–5)
(16–6)
46
33
Head coach: Howard Hobson
Head coach: Harold Olsen
1st half
2nd half
Total
Oregon Webfoots
21
25
46
Ohio State Buckeyes
16
17
33
Date
March 27, 1939
Venue
Patten Gymnasium, Evanston, Illinois
Referees
Lyle Clarno and John Getchell[1]
Attendance
4,400–5,500
1940 →
The 1939 NCAA Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1939 NCAA basketball tournament and the first NCAA tournament title game. The contest was held on March 27, 1939, at Patten Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois, and determined the national champion in the 1938–39 NCAA men's basketball season. The Ohio State Buckeyes, the champions of the Big Ten Conference, faced the Oregon Webfoots, winners of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). Oregon won the game, 46–33, to claim the school's only national championship in men's college basketball.
^2017 Men's Final Four Records Book, p. 33.
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