 He then played collegiately at Indiana University, leading the Hoosiers to the 1940 NCAA Championship.After scoring a team-high 12 points in the deciding game over the University of Kansas, Huffman received the second-ever NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player award and earned Converse First Team All-American honors.Huffman later had a brief professional career with the Akron Wingfoots of the National Basketball League, a forerunner to the NBA.