[FarmBoy]

ESPN is ranking the past NCAA men's basketball champions. They put us at #70, just ahead of the 1940 Indiana squad and behind the 1958 Kentucky team. The blurb:

The Cardinal defeated Dartmouth 53-38 in the national title game, even though standout Jim Pollard missed the game with an illness. The forward scored 43 points combined in the two games that preceded the championship. With Pollard sidelined, sophomore Howie Dallmar scored 15 points to secure MOP honors. Donald Burness, who only played nine minutes and failed to score, was a consensus All-American that year. -- Myron Medcalf

http://espn.go.com/ncb/feature/video/_/p...basketball

[FarmBoy]

ESPN is ranking the past NCAA men's basketball champions. They put us at #70, just ahead of the 1940 Indiana squad and behind the 1958 Kentucky team. The blurb:

The Cardinal defeated Dartmouth 53-38 in the national title game, even though standout Jim Pollard missed the game with an illness. The forward scored 43 points combined in the two games that preceded the championship. With Pollard sidelined, sophomore Howie Dallmar scored 15 points to secure MOP honors. Donald Burness, who only played nine minutes and failed to score, was a consensus All-American that year. -- Myron Medcalf

http://espn.go.com/ncb/feature/video/_/p...basketball

[81alum]

At first I thought this meant this year's team is the 70th best team in the country.  Well, come to think of it, that is plausible too.

I guess this means that Hank Luisetti teams never won it all.

[81alum]

At first I thought this meant this year's team is the 70th best team in the country.  Well, come to think of it, that is plausible too.

I guess this means that Hank Luisetti teams never won it all.

[Class_of_75]

NCAA basketball championship started in 1939. Luisetti graduated in 1938.  :(

[Class_of_75]

NCAA basketball championship started in 1939. Luisetti graduated in 1938.  :(

[Bruce Wang]

Wasn't the NIT more prestigious back then?

[Bruce Wang]

Wasn't the NIT more prestigious back then?

[Class_of_75]

Yes it was.

[Class_of_75]

Yes it was.

[CowboyIndian]

The Cardinal defeated Dartmouth 53-38 in the national title game,

We had to wait until the 70s to stop this Indian-on-Indian brutality.

[CowboyIndian]

The Cardinal defeated Dartmouth 53-38 in the national title game,

We had to wait until the 70s to stop this Indian-on-Indian brutality.