The first Annual Boys' Mason-Dixon Basketball Tournament was held at the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in Staunton, Virginia, on March 6-7, 1953. The game results & team coaches of the first tournament were as follows:

1st Round

Virginia 48 - South Carolina 39

North Carolina 38 - Alabama 36

Kentucky 57 - Kendall 52

2nd Round

Florida 43 - Virginia 36

North Carolina 52 - Kentucky 47

Losers' Bracket

Alabama 36 - Kendall 35

Alabama 67 - South Carolina 66

Final Round

Virginia 53 - Kentucky 31

North Carolina 36 - Florida 35

Order of Finish

1st Place: North Carolina

2nd Place: Florida

3rd Place: Virginia

4th Place: Alabama

Team Coaches

Alabama: Harry L. Baynes

Florida: McCay Vernon

Kendall: Robert Anderson

Kentucky: Claude B. Hoffmeyer

North Carolina: E. Carl Barber

South Carolina: Jim Hudson

Virginia. T.C. Lewellyn