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The program has been rated the 53rd "Greatest College Basketball Program of All-Time" by Street & Smith's magazine and 71st by the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia.. La Salle has won one National Championship, one National Invitation Tournament Championship, and advanced to two Final Fours.
The men's basketball team has won eight City Championships (four were shared). In addition to the national championship and NIT Championship, La Salle was also a national finalist in the 1955 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and was named the 53rd "Greatest College Basketball Program of All-Time" by Street & Smith's in January 2005.
La Salle, coached by Ken Loeffler, won the national title with a 92–76 victory in the final game over Bradley, coached by Forddy Anderson. Tom Gola of La Salle was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Of note, Kentucky, the top-ranked team in the nation (with a record of 25–0) did not participate in any post-season tournament ...
Some basketball historians have called La Salle star Tom Gola the Magic Johnson of his day because, at 6'7", he could play all five positions. But not even Magic piled up the kind of numbers Gola did in leading the Explorers to the 1954 national championship – 21.7 points and 23 rebounds per game.
La Salle won the Division I state basketball championship in 2011 with help from Brett Wiebell's senior leadership. Wiebell died in 2022 at age 29.
The Helms Athletic Foundation awarded its national championship to Kentucky rather than to the 1954 NCAA basketball tournament champion, La Salle. [2] It was the fourth and final time that the NCAA champion and the Helms champion differed.
The league later suspended all of La Salle's teams in both divisions for the 2006 season, forfeited all of La Salle's wins from 2003 to 2005, and gave the 2004 championship trophy to FEU, the defeated finalists. This gave FEU three consecutive championships from 2003 to 2005. La Salle's varsity teams would return for the 2007–08 season.
The 1955 NCAA basketball tournament involved 24 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 8, 1955, and ended with the championship game on March 19 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 28 games were played, including a third-place game in each ...