On March 25, 1947, Holy Cross won the NCAA tournament — and exactly 70 years later, Boston.com invited fans to relive the excitement. With March Madness in full swing, the article looks back at the legendary win over Oklahoma that made Holy Cross the first New England team to earn the coveted title.
At the time, the team — which included basketball legend Bob Cousy ’50 — didn’t even have a home court on campus, playing home games at the Boston Garden instead. That didn’t stop them from going 27-3 that season before beating out the best teams in the country to become, as the Boston Globe called them in 1947, “champions of the land from a red barn atop cold Pachachoag Hill in Worcester.”
Read the full article on Boston.com and watch footage from the championship game below:
Additional Coverage
- Telegram & Gazette, April 2: 70 years ago, ‘Cinderella kids’ from Holy Cross won NCAA title
