Footage of Seattle University basketball competing in the NCAA tournament in March 1953. Led by All American guard Johnny O'Brien, Seattle is shown defeating Idaho State University and earning the right to play against the University of Washington in the NCAA west regional, which was held at Gill Coliseum. The film includes footage of Seattle players exiting a charter flight, perhaps at the Corvallis airport; fans assembling outside of Gill Coliseum; Oregon State College athletic director Roy "Spec" Keene; basketball journalists seated courtside, and game action versus Washington. 

Digitized from a Umatic original held in the Intercollegiate Athletics Moving Images (FV 031 - Acc 2022:072), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.