1950 NAIA basketball tournament

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: