Teams | 16 | ||||
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Finals site | Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania | ||||
Champions | Elizabethtown Blue Jays (1st title) | ||||
Runner-up | UNC Greensboro Spartans (1st title game) | ||||
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Winning coach | Yvonne Kauffman (1st title) | ||||
MOP | Bev Hall (Elizabethtown) | ||||
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The 1982 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the inaugural tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of NCAA Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States. [1] The 1982 AIAW Division III championship was a separate tournament.
Elizabethtown defeated UNC Greensboro in the championship game, 67–66 in overtime, to claim the Blue Jays' first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
Final Four | National championship | ||||||
Elizabethtown | 71 | ||||||
Clark | 51 | ||||||
Elizabethtown | 67* | ||||||
UNC Greensboro | 66 | ||||||
UNC Greensboro | 77 | ||||||
Pomona-Pitzer | 66 | Third Place | |||||
Clark | 71 | ||||||
Pomona-Pitzer | 72* |
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