Single-session tickets available for NJCAA men's tournament

The NJCAA Division I men's basketball championship tournament is 76 years old in 2023 and this season will mark the 75th year the tournament will b...

March 5, 2023
11:36 PM

The NJCAA Division I men's basketball championship tournament is 76 years old in 2023 and this season will mark the 75th year the tournament will be played in Hutchinson. From 1945-47, the Western States Basketball Tournament featured some of the best two-year college teams from across the country.  The champions of those invitational tournaments were Pasadena (Calif.), 1945; Sacramento (Calif.), 1946; and Compton (Calif,), 1947. The first NJCAA men's basketball tournament took place in 1948 in Springfield, Mo.

John Mesh