Watch Cowboys: The Story of the 1943 World Championship Team (2014) : Full Movie Online Free On April 1, 1943, at the height of World War II, a basketball game was played at Madison Square Garden in New York City by men who were about to go off to war. This was the first true collegiate national championship, and it featured the underdog University of Wyoming and the highly-touted St. John's University. 'Cowboys' is the incredible story of that game.