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Message: [QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4545429, member: 4173"] I’m not sure that anyone was able “to win it all” back in those days. Not when half of the top teams went to the other tournament. I think of almost all of the tournament champions in those days as co-champions, winning a share of the national title. Occasionally someone did win it outright. Wen Kentucky played in both tournaments in 1949, winning the NCAA tournament but losing ti Loyola (Chi) in the NIT semi’s before San Francisco beat Loyola for the tournament championship, it seems to me that the NIT became the de facto national championship tournament that year and that USF had a legitimate claim to having won it all. Same for CCNY the following year when they won both tournaments. In my book, the UConn 1999 team was the first New England team to win it all. [/QUOTE]