The 1957 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game took place on March 23, 1957, between the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Kansas Jayhawks at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mi
The Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, hosted the championship game.
The Tar Heels' Lennie Rosenbluth cuts down the nets after winning the Dixie Classic.
Sophomore Wilt Chamberlain (pictured in 1959) joined the Kansas varsity basketball team in 1956.
Frank McGuire (pictured in 1960) was the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels for the 1956–57 season.
Lennie Rosenbluth
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Leonard Robert Rosenbluth was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association, but he is remembered, first and foremost, for his college basketball player days. He pl
1957 NCAA University Division basketball championship game
…came into the national championship game with a record of 31–0. Led by coach Frank McGuire and Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year Lennie Rosenbluth, the Tar Heels were ranked first overall in the AP Poll. Kansas came into the national championship game with two losses, which were credited to poor…
Rosenbluth circa 1957