Marvin Huffman (March 14, 1917 – May 15, 1983) was an American

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player. A 6'2" forward, Huffman starred at New Castle High School in

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, where he started every game for four years. He then played collegiately at

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, leading the Hoosiers to the 1940 NCAA Championship. After scoring a team-high 12 points in the deciding game over the

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, Huffman received the second-ever NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player award and earned

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First Team All-American honors. Huffman later had a brief professional career with the

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of the National Basketball League, a forerunner to the NBA. During the 1940–41 NBL season, he averaged 5.1 points in 22 games. Huffman was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Indiana University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989. Huffman' brother Vern was also an All-American basketball player for IU and later went on to play professional football for the Detroit Lions. He graduated from

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in 1952.

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