Teams | 32 | ||||
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Finals site | Scranton, Pennsylvania | ||||
Champions | Wisconsin–Stevens Point Pointers (1st title) | ||||
Runner-up | Concordia Cobbers (1st title game) | ||||
Third place | Scranton Royals (2nd Final Four) | ||||
Fourth place | Kean Cougars (1st Final Four) | ||||
Winning coach | Linda Wunder (1st title) | ||||
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The 1987 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the sixth annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States. [1]
Wisconsin–Stevens Point defeated Concordia Moorhead in the championship game, 81–74, to claim the Pointers' first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were held in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
National quarterfinals | National semifinals | National championship | ||||||||||||
Scranton | 50* | |||||||||||||
St. John Fisher | 43 | |||||||||||||
Scranton | 59 | |||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Stevens Point | 74 | |||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Stevens Point | 71 | |||||||||||||
William Penn | 66 | |||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Stevens Point | 81 | |||||||||||||
Concordia Moorhead | 74 | |||||||||||||
Kean | 69 | |||||||||||||
Southern Maine | 56 | |||||||||||||
Kean | 69 | National third-place game | ||||||||||||
Concordia Moorhead | 74 | |||||||||||||
Concordia Moorhead | 72 | Scranton | 92* | |||||||||||
Rust | 62 | Kean | 90 |
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