The 1955 NAIA basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.
The 18th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.
The other teams in the NAIA Semifinals were Western Illinois State and Arkansas Tech.
The Leathernecks defeated the Wonder Boys for the third place title, 77–74.
Many of the records set by the 1955 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later: