Basketball
- NCAA Men's Basketball Championship –
- San Francisco wins 76-73 over La Salle
- NBA Finals|NBA Finals –
- The Syracuse Nationals beat the Fort Wayne Pistons 4 games to 3 to win the NBA title.
- The ninth European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1955, is won by Hungary.
- March 1 – Allen Fieldhouse opens at the University of Kansas as the Jayhawks defeat Kansas State.
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)