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Archives Photograph Collection - "The 1939 - 1940 basketball team (Indiana University's first NCAA basketball championship team)"
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They believed, too: San Diego State's first taste of basketball success came 82 years ago - The San Diego Union-Tribune
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1940 Wilson High School Basketball Team Player Leo Kampman - Portsmouth, Virginia - The Virginian-Pilot Photograph Collection, circa 1924 - circa 2000 - Sargeant Memorial Collection Online Archive
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