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1940 National Invitation Tournament

Annual NCAA basketball competition

Field	Value
title	National Invitation Tournament
year	1940
image	1940 NIT program.jpg
venues	Madison Square Garden
city	New York City
num_teams	6
winners	Colorado Buffaloes
count	1
second	Duquesne Dukes
semifinal1	Oklahoma A&M Aggies
semifinal2	DePaul Blue Demons
award_title	MVP
award	Bob Doll (Colorado)
prev_season	1939
next_season	1941

The 1940 National Invitation Tournament was the 1940 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.

Selected teams

Below is a list of the six teams selected for the tournament.

Team	Conference
	Mountain States Conference
	Independent
Duquesne	Independent
	Independent
	Missouri Valley Conference
	Metropolitan New York Conference

Bracket

Below is the tournament bracket. | RD1-team1=**** | RD1-score1=45 | RD1-team2= | RD1-score2=38

| RD1-team3=Duquesne | RD1-score3=38 | RD1-team4= | RD1-score4=31

| RD2-team1=**** | RD2-score1=52 | RD2-team2=DePaul | RD2-score2=37

| RD2-team3= | RD2-score3=30 | RD2-team4=Duquesne | RD2-score4=34

| RD3-team1=Colorado | RD3-score1=51 | RD3-team2=Duquesne | RD3-score2=40

| RD3-team3=DePaul | RD3-score3=22 | RD3-team4=Oklahoma A&M | RD3-score4=23

References

[http://www.nit.org/history/nit-postseason-results-1940s.html Tournament Results (1940s)] at nit.org, URL accessed December 9, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100326191321/http://www.nit.org/history/nit-postseason-results-1940s.html Archived] 11/7/09

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