National Campus Basketball Tournament

The National Campus Basketball Tournament was a college basketball postseason tournament hosted by Bradley University in 1951. After the point-shaving scandals over the previous year, some schools preferred that major tournaments be held at campus sites, rather than major neutral-site arenas such as Madison Square Garden, which was hosting the Final Four of both the NCAA and NIT tournaments at that time. Initially, 25 teams were invited by Bradley to apply for entry into a new postseason event that they would host. The field was ultimately whittled down to eight teams and began play with a doubleheader on March 27. The tournament was only held once and was won by Syracuse.