1922 National Intercollegiate basketball tournament
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The 1922 National Intercollegiate basketball tournament was the first national championship tournament ever held in intercollegiate basketball. Played {{nowrap|March 9–11}} in Indianapolis, Indiana, it attracted six teams, including five conference champions.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DcdXAAAAIBAJ&pg=5168%2C1175183 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |title=Idaho to open in title games |date=March 9, 1922 |page=22}}
Participants included Wabash College, Kalamazoo College, Grove City College (Pennsylvania), S.I.A.A. tournament runner-up{{cite web|url=http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/SC/| title=History of the Early S.I.A.A. Atlanta Basketball Tournament|first=Jon|last=Scott|access-date=2015-12-14}} Mercer College (Georgia), Illinois Wesleyan and the University of Idaho. The Western Conference and Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League declined invitations to participate.
The following conferences were represented: Pacific Coast Conference (Idaho), Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (Mercer), Western Pennsylvania League (Grove City), Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Illinois Wesleyan), Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (Kalamazoo) and the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association (Wabash).
Wabash won the championship game {{nowrap|43–23}} over Kalamazoo; Wabash finished with a season record of 21–3, winning all three tournament games in convincing fashion. They were coached by the legendary Robert E. "Pete" Vaughan, and their players were Clyde O Grater, Alonzo Goldsberry, Herbert Crane, Elmer G Roll, Lee N "Pete" Thorn, Ovid M Shelley, Maurice Chadwick, Carl Nurnberger, Paul Schanlaub, Donald Burdette, Reeve S Peare, Fred B Adam. These 12 were the Basketball "W" Men. Grater was the captain of the Wabash Little Giants with Adam being the captain-elect. The team averaged 15.08 field goals and 6.12 foul goals per game for the season. High point man was Goldsberry.{{cite book|title=The Wabash Year Book|year=1922|volume=1|pages=75, 82}}{{cite web|url=http://www.warsawrotary.com/history/index.cfm?Content_id=1374|title= Lee Norman "Pete" Thorn}}
Bracket
:March 9–11, 1922, in Indianapolis
{{3RoundBracket-Byes
| RD1-team3=Wabash (IN)
| RD1-score3=39
| RD1-team4=Illinois Wesleyan
| RD1-score4=16
| RD1-team7=Kalamazoo (MI)
| RD1-score7=38
| RD1-team8=Idaho
| RD1-score8=31
| RD2-team1=Mercer (GA)
| RD2-score1=25
| RD2-team2=Wabash
| RD2-score2=62
| RD2-team3=Grove City (PA)
| RD2-score3=13
| RD2-team4=Kalamazoo
| RD2-score4=22
| RD3-team1=Wabash
| RD3-score1=43
| RD3-team2=Kalamazoo
| RD3-score2=23
}}
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