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1960 NCAA College Division basketball tournament

college basketball tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4570004 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1960 NCAA College Division basketball tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA College Division college basketball as a culmination of the 1959-60 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by the University of Evansville and Evansville's Ed Smallwood was the Most Outstanding Player.

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“1960 NCAA College Division basketball tournament” enters the record as college basketball tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what NCAA, College and Division can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around NCAA, College and Division.
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“1960 NCAA College Division basketball tournament” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, NCAA, College and Division provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4570004. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “1960 NCAA College Division basketball tournament” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.