Post Season Basketball Records for the

Fordham University

Rams

  1931
     Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
1/19 Columbia 26 - Fordham 18 15,000 (others: St. John's 17 - C.C.N.Y. 9; Manhattan 16 - N.Y.U. 14)

  1931-32
     Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
12/31 C.C.N.Y. 23 - Forham 11 14,500 (others: Columbia 22 - N.Y.U. 17; St. John's 16 - Manhattan 6)

  1933
     Annual Unemployment Benefit Carnival, at Madison Square Garden
2/22 St. John's 35 - Fordham 20 (eve.) 15,000 (others:N.Y.U. 35 - Carnegie Tech 31; CCNY 37 - George Washington 26)

  1939
     North American Martyrs Shrine Benefit, at Rose Hill Gym, Fordham
2/21 Crescent A.C. of Brooklyn 32 - Fordham 28 (1st g.- N.Y.A.C. 33 - Georgetown 27)

  1943
     National Invitation Tournament, at Madison Square Garden
       First Round:
3/22 Fordham 60 - Western Kentucky 58 18,135 (1st g.- St. John's 51 - Rice 49)
       Semi-final:
3/27 St. John's 69 - Fordham 43 18,419 (1st g.- Toledo 46 - Washington & Jefferson 39)
       Consolation game:
3/29 Washington & Jefferson 39 - Fordham 34 18,233 (Final: St. John's 48 - Toledo 27)

  1945
     Experimental 3-Point Line Game, at Columbia Gymnasium
2/7 Columbia 73 - Fordham 58 1,000
          [20-foot line; also 11 pt. FT from 15', 2 pts. FT from 21 ft; 12' lanes instead of 6'. Columbia's Norm Skinner 3 threes, Herb Poch 2; John Profant 4 three attempts.]

  1947
     Stepinac High School Benefit Game, at Westchester County Center
3/5 Fordham 57 - Iona 56 3,500 (1st g.- White Plains War Veterans 49 - Iona JV 45)
     Jesuit Philippine Bureau Benefit Game, at 69^th Regiment Armory
3/14 Canisius 55 - Fordham 47 5,000 (1st g.- Georgetown 61 - Boston College 54)

  1952
     Bronx Cancer Fund Benefit Game, at Fordham Gymnasium
3/28 N.Y.U. 68 - Fordham 57

  1953
     N. C. A. A. Tournament
       Eastern Regional
       First Round, at the Palestra, Philadelphia:
3/9 Lebanon Valley 80 - Fordham 67 4,029 (1st g.- Holy Cross 82 - Navy 74)

  1954
     N. C. A. A.
       Eastern Regional
       First Round, at Buffalo, N.Y.:
3/8 La Salle 76 - Fordham 74 ^O.T. (2nd g.- Navy 85 - Connecticut 80)

  1958
     N. I. T., at Madison Square Garden
       First Round:
3/15 Fordham 83 - St. Francis (Pa.) 59 14,001 (other g. ( ¹/₄-final g.)- St. Bonaventure 79 - St. Joseph's 75)
       Quarter-final:
3/18 Dayton 74 - Fordham 70 12,160 (1st g.- Xavier 72 - Bradley 62)

  1959
     N. I. T., at Madison Square Garden
       First Round:
3/12 Butler 94 - Fordham 80 12,235 (2nd g.- St. John's 75 - Villanova 67)

  1963
     N. I. T., at Madison Square Garden
       First Round:
3/14 Memphis State 70 - Fordham 49 14,238 (1st g.- Villanova 63 - De Paul 49)

  1965
     N. I. T., at Madison Square Garden
       First Round:
3/13 Western Kentucky 57 - Fordham 53 (aft.) 12,144 (2nd g.- Army 70 - St. Louis 66)

  1968
     N. I. T., at Madison Square Garden
       First Round:
3/16 Fordham 69 - Duquesne 60 16,127 (2nd g.- Dayton 87 - West Virginia 68)
       Quarter-final:
3/19 Dayton 61 - Fordham 60 18,683 (other g.- Notre Dame 62 - Long Island University 60)

  1969
     N. I. T., at Madison Square Garden
       First Round:
3/16 Louisville 73 - Fordham 70 9,321 (other g.- Boston College 78 - Kansas 62)

  1970
  Club Team
     IntercollegiateClub Balanced Basketball League
       Semi-Final:
3/23 Manhattan 96 - Fordham 84

  1971
     N. C. A. A.
       Eastern Regional
       First Round, at St. John's Gym, Jamaica, N.Y.:
3/13 Fordham 105 - Furman 74 6,004
       Regional Final Four, at Reynolds Coliseum (NC State), Raleigh, N.C.
       Regional Semi-final (2nd round):
3/18 Villanova 85 - Fordham 75 12,400 (other g.- Pennsylvania 79 - South Carolina 64)
       Consolation game:
3/20 Fordham 100 - South Carolina 90 10,800 (Reg. final- Villanova 90 - Penn 47)

  1972
     N. I. T., at Madison Square Garden
       First Round:
3/17 Jacksonville 94 - Fordham 75 12,636 (1st g.- Lafayette 72 - Virginia 71)

  1981
     N. I. T.
       First Round, at Dayton:
3/10 Dayton 66 - Fordham 65 ^{2 O.T.s} 7,100

  1982
     N. I. T.
       First Round, at Blacksburg, Virginia:
3/12 Virginia Tech 69 - Fordham 58 6,600

  1983
     N. I. T.
       First Round, at Tampa (Fla.) Sun Dome:
3/15 South Florida 81 - Fordham 69 ~5,000
          [The N.I.T. used a 30 second clock; the Sun Belt Conference (S. Florida's) used a 45 second clock in the season; Fordham's Metro-Atlantic Conference used no clock. Fordham proved at a disadvantage.]

  1984
     N. I. T.
       First Round, at Ogden, Utah:
3/16 Weber State 75 - Fordham 63

  1985
     N. I. T.
       First Round, at Richmond, Va.:
3/15 Richmond 59 - Fordham 57

  1988
     N. I. T.
       First Round, at Houston, Tex.:
3/17 Houston 69 - Fordham 61

  1990
     N. I. T.
       First Round, at Rose Hill Gymnasium, (Fordham), The Bronx:
3/15 Fordham 106 - Southern 80 3,351
       Second round, at Louis Brown Athletic Center, Piscateway, N.J.:
3/19 Rutgers 81 - Fordham 74 5,535

  1991
     N. I. T.
       First Round, at Tampa, Florida:
3/14 Fordham 76 - South Florida 66 4,518
       Second round, at at Rose Hill Gymnasium (Fordham):
3/19 Massachusetts 78 - Fordham 74 4,460
          [Fordham was Patriot League champion this season, but no automatic bid to the N.C.A.A. came with this title this year.]

  2016
     C. I. T. (CollegeInsider.com Tournament)
       First Round, at Rose Hill Gym, The Bronx:
3/16 Boston University 69 - Fordham 66

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