#28 CCNY 1950 Beats #15 LIU, 57-55, to Face Valvano's NC State For New Team Title

CCNY led for only the last 16 seconds of this Final Four game of our newly created teams this year in the Value Add Basketball Game.

Ed Warner hit a game-winning shot in the closing minutes to lead our all-time #28 great team the 1950 City College of New York past #15 great all-time 1939 Long Island University. The win puts the 1950 CCNY team that was the only in history to win both the NIT and NCAA- back when they were considered equal, into our title game of new teams against the 1983 NC State national champs.

Long Island built a double digit lead of 42-31 in a game of two of our oldest teams in the game, from an era when scores were much lower amid scrappy play that led to very tough defense and much lower shooting and free throw percentages.

But CCNY fought back behind 25 rebounds between their two big men Irwin Dambrot and Ed Roman to git them a strong 49-38 rebounding edge and helping them draw 22 fouls to only 14 drawn by Long Island. The first player to draw huge crowds to Madison Square Garden, Irv Torgoff - who led LIU to back-to-back titles, led the way but was one of three LIU players with four fouls each trying not to foul out.

CCNY finally tied the game 55-55 when Ed roman grabbed an offensive rebound with 1:30 to play and kicked it out to Warner who drained the shot to tie the game. Back in 1950 and before free throw shooting as well as shots were made at a much lower percentage, and despite all the fouls drawn CCNY hit only 13 of 26 free throws for 50% to still be in the tie. 

Warner's game-winner still allowed one last roll by Long Island and got the ball to their star Torgoff who led the game with 17 points, but a 53 was in the STOP range for the game, where LIU automatically misses and the rebound goes straight to his defender, in this case Warner, to end the game with the 57-55 win.
 

Pos	CCNY 1950	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Stats
1-PG	Alvin Roth	10	1	1	5	8	5	3	0	2	6'3, 6.4 Pts
2-SG	Floyd Layne	5	0	2	1	2	3	4	4	2	6'3, 6.9 Pts
3-SG	Ed Warner	12	1	3	3	6	9	2	1	2	6'2, 14.8 Pts
4-PF	Irwin Dambrot	5	0	2	1	2	12	1	0	1	6'4, 10.2 Pts
5-C	Ed Roman	9	0	4	1	2	13	1	1	1	6'6, 16.4 Pts
Pos		Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Stats
1-PG	Meyer Wittlin	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	5'10, 1.7 Pts
2-SG	Ronnie Nadell	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	5'11, 2.5 Pts
3-SG	Herb Cohen	6	0	2	2	6	1	0	0	1	6'1, 5.4 Pts
4-PF	Joe Galiber	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	2	6'4, 1.4 Pts
5-C	Norman Mager	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	6'5, 3.6 Pts
	11 Turnovers	57	2	19	13	26	49	11	7	14
Pos	Long Island 1939	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Stats
1-PG	Oscar Shechtman	5	1	1	0	2	2	1	1	4	11.0 ppg
2-SG	Dan Kaplowitz	3	0	1	1	2	3	2	1	2	4.0 ppg
3-SG	Irv Torgoff	17	1	6	2	2	8	2	0	4	6.0 ppg, 6'2
4-PF	John Bromberg	6	0	3	0	0	4	0	2	2	12.0 ppg
5-C	Arthur Hillhouse	4	0	2	0	0	12	3	4	2	6.0 ppg
Pos	Bench	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Stats
1-PG	Si Lobello	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	8.0 ppg
2-SG	Myron Sewitch	8	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	1	2.0 ppg
3-SG	Irving Zeitlin	4	0	2	0	0	4	0	0	4	2.0 ppg
4-PF	Joe Shelly	4	0	1	2	2	1	0	1	1	1.0 ppg
5-C	Butch Schwartz	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1.0 ppg
	16 Turnovers	55	2	22	5	8	38	8	9	22