| Type: | NAIA men's basketball tournament |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Teams: | 32 |
| Fabfourarena: | Municipal Auditorium |
| Fabfourcity: | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Champions: | Indiana State |
| Titlecount: | 1st |
| Champgamecount: | 3rd |
| Champffcount: | 4th |
| Runnerffcount: | 1st |
| Runnerup: | East Central State |
| Gamecount: | 1st |
| Semifinal1: | Central Methodist |
| Finalfourcount1: | 1st |
| Semifinal2: | Tampa |
| Finalfourcount2: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Clemens "Lenny" Rzeszewski |
| Mvpteam: | Indiana State |
| Attendance: | unknown |
The 1950 NAIA basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 13th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.[1]
The championship game featured Indiana State and East Central State. It was the first time these two teams had met in the tournament history. The Sycamores defeated the Tigers, 61-57.
This would be Indiana State's highest finish in their 12 career appearances in the NAIA tournament. Winning the championship puts them in a unique group to place 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Also Indiana State finally gets a win after 2 times as runner-up. Uniquely, Indiana State has finished as the National Runner-up in the NAIA (1946 and 1948), the NCAA Division I (1979) and the NCAA Division II (1968) tournaments.
Many of the records set by the 1950 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later: