This RKO sports short shows selections from post-season college games, leading to various championships, and a chance to compete in the Olympics. It's interesting to see the old Madison Square Garden set up for basketball.

RKO had a long tradition of sports shorts, with a yearly round-up of college football. They had plenty of footage to choose from, since they were pulled from the RKO-Pathe newsreel division, so they turned out all sort of sports shorts, including the occasional gymnastics extravaganza.

The copy that plays on Turner Classic Movies cearly shows the sort of lighting newsreels were prone to: some of the action is obscured because the games were lit for the players and the audience, rather than the camera.

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Highlights from the 1956 NCAA Men's Basketball playoffs and the National Invitational Tournament.

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