The 1950 NAIA basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.
The 13th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.
This would be Indiana State's highest finish in their 12 career appearances in the NAIA tournament.
Winning the championship puts them in a unique group to place 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
Many of the records set by the 1950 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later: