The 1953 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.
 The 16th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.
 The championship game would feature Southwest Missouri State University, now Missouri State University, and Hamline University (Minn.) (10th appearance in tournament).
 The Bears were coached by Bob Vanatta.
 The championship game was the first time that these two teams had ever met in the tournament.
 The Bears would defeat the Pipers to win another national championship by the score of 79 to 71.
 It was the first time since 1937 and 1938, the first two years of the tournament, that the same team would win the national championship title.
 (The first two tournaments were also won by a Missouri university, Central Missouri State University.)
Notable alumni of Missouri State University.
 Most of these students attended under the former names of the school: Fourth District Normal School (1905–1919), Southwest Missouri State Teacher's College (1919–1972), and Southwest Missouri State University (1972–2005).
Missouri State University (MSU or MO State), formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university located in Springfield, Missouri, United States.
 Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, it is the state's second largest university, with an official enrollment of 22,385 in the fall 2014 semester.
 In 2011, students represented 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and 83 countries.
 The Springfield campus is one of two degree-granting institutions within the Missouri State University System, the other being a two-year campus in West Plains, Missouri.
 A bachelor of science in business from MSU is offered at the Missouri State University Branch Campus Dalian in the People's Republic of China.
 In addition to its main campus, MSU maintains a fruit research station in Mountain Grove and the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies program housed in Fairfax, Virginia.
 The school is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as one of six master's colleges and universities in Missouri.
 In the 2014 U.S. News and World Report, the school was ranked 68th in the category Midwestern regional universities.
Thomas Joseph O'Boyle (August 21, 1917 – July 19, 2000) was an American football player, coach, scout, and college athletics administrator.
 He served as the head football coach at Southwest Missouri State College—now known as Missouri State University—from 1947 to 1948 and at Tulane University from 1962 to 1965, compiling a career college football coaching record of 22–37–2.
 At Southwest Missouri State he was also the school's athletic director.
 O'Boyle later worked an assistant coach and scout for the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).
Morrison Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Central Methodist University located in Fayette, Missouri (USA).
 It was named after Bernice Morrison who, in 1874, pledged $100,000 to C. W. Pritchett for the construction of the observatory.
 Half of that amount would go the construction of the telescope and observatory; the other half to a permanent trust fund.
 The observatory was built soon afterwards in Glasgow, Missouri at Pritchett College and opened in 1875.
Jason Whittle (born March 7, 1975) is a former American football guard.
 He went to high school in Camdenton, Missouri and played for the Camdenton Lakers.
 He spent four years at Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University) playing college football for the Bears where, in 1995, he won the Arthur Briggs Award for being an outstanding scholar athlete.
 He was an American football offensive lineman last playing for the Buffalo Bills.
 He was originally signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 1998.
 He was part of New York Giants teams that won two NFC East titles in 2000 and 2005, and the NFC Championship in 2000.
 He played 11 years in the NFL as a Guard and Center.
 He is currently co-owner/broker of RE/MAX Lake of the Ozarks one of the top RE/MAX brokerages in the midstates region.
 He currently resides in his hometown of Lake of the Ozarks with his wife Natalie and 6 children.
The Missouri State Bears and Lady Bears are the athletic teams representing Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University).
 These athletics programs date back to 1908.
 Missouri State competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, and most teams compete in the Missouri Valley Conference.
 Missouri State is more and more frequently being abbreviated by the media as MOST.
Michigan State University Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Michigan State University.
 It is located south of the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, Michigan (USA), near the corner of Forest Rd and College Rd.
 It has a Cassegrain telescope in its single dome.
 Built by Boller and Chivens, the Michigan State University telescope was commissioned in 1969 and entered regular operation in 1970.
 In 1974, what was at the time a state-of-the-art Raytheon Microcomputer was installed to function as a data gathering and control system.
 Originally, single channel photoelectric photometry and photography using plates or film were the means of acquiring data.
 The observatory was closed from 1981 until 1986, at a time when the university was having financial difficulties.
 It was reopened in the spring of 1986 on the occasion of the return of Comet Halley and has been in regular operation ever since.
 Since the 1980s, a CCD camera has been employed as the main instrument and the Raytheon computer has been retired.
 The International Astronomical Union has assigned the MSU Observatory identification code 766.
The William G. and Retha Stone Baker Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Missouri State University.
 It is located in Marshfield, Missouri.
The Missouri State Bears basketball team is the NCAA Division I men's basketball program of Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.
 The Bears compete in the Missouri Valley Conference.
 They are currently coached by Paul Lusk, who was hired April 1, 2011.
 Missouri State plays its home games at the 11,000 seat JQH Arena.
 The Bears have been a Division I school since the 1982–83 season.
 Prior to 2005, the school was known as Southwest Missouri State.
 Prior to joining Division I, they were members of the NAIA, winning national championships in 1952 and 1953, and NCAA Division II, where they were the national runner-up four times (1959, 1967, 1969, 1974).
 They were also champions of the 2010 CollegeInsider.com Tournament.

Question: The William G. and Retha Stone Baker Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Missouri State University, (MSU or MO State), formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university located in which city, in Missouri, United States?
Answer: Springfield