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Last updated on February 1, 2009
1938 College Basketball Recap The season began with the elimination of the center jump after each basket and ended with Temple winning the first National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York. In between, Hank Luisetti closed out his sensational four-year career at Stanford with a season that featured an unheard of 50–point game against Duquesne and a third straight Pacific Coast Conference championship. After a 9–18 record
his freshman
year, Luisetti and Stanford went 68–12 over the next three seasons under coach John Bunn. The Indians were 21–3 in 1938, but did not play in the inaugural NIT. Temple, at 20–2 the top team in the East, did play and trounced all three Midwestern teams in the tournament—Bradley, Oklahoma A&M and Colorado—to
win the
title. One of the Colorado starters was football hero and future Supreme Court Justice Byron “Whizzer” White, who had led the nation in scoring and total offense in the fall. He joined the basketball team in January after taking
the football
team to the Cotton Bowl.
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