Teams | 64 | ||||
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Finals site | Salem, Virginia | ||||
Champions | Rowan Profs (1st title) | ||||
Runner-up | Hope Flying Dutchmen (1st title game) | ||||
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Winning coach | John Giannini (Rowan) | ||||
MOP | Terrence Stewart (Rowan) | ||||
Attendance | 67,695 | ||||
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The 1996 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was the 22nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champions of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's Division III collegiate basketball in the United States.
The field contained sixty-four teams, each allocated to one of four sectionals played on campus sites. The national semifinals, third-place final, and championship final, meanwhile, were contested at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia. [1] Salem would remain the home of the Division III final four through the 2017–18 season.
Rowan defeated Hope, 100–93, in the final, clinching their first national title.
The Profs (28–4) were coached by John Giannini. Giannini would go on to coach at Maine and La Salle at the Division I level.
First round | Second round | Sectional semifinals | Sectional finals | ||||||||||||
RIT | 51 | ||||||||||||||
Geneseo State | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Geneseo State | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Buffalo State | 71 | ||||||||||||||
Buffalo State | 74 | ||||||||||||||
St. John Fisher | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Buffalo State | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Wilkes | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Wilkes | 87 | ||||||||||||||
Allentown | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Wilkes | 96* | ||||||||||||||
Cabrini | 91 | ||||||||||||||
Cabrini | 85 | ||||||||||||||
Catholic | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Wilkes | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Franklin & Marshall | 107 | ||||||||||||||
Hamilton | 78 | ||||||||||||||
St. Lawrence | 85 | ||||||||||||||
St. Lawrence | 70 | ||||||||||||||
RPI | 78 | ||||||||||||||
Hartwick | 55 | ||||||||||||||
RPI | 68 | ||||||||||||||
RPI | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Franklin & Marshall | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Lycoming | 103 | ||||||||||||||
Gettysburg | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Lycoming | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Franklin & Marshall | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Franklin & Marshall | 118 | ||||||||||||||
Salisbury State | 69 |
First round | Second round | Sectional semifinals | Sectional finals | ||||||||||||
UW–Platteville | 77 | ||||||||||||||
UW–Whitewater | 85 | ||||||||||||||
UW–Whitewater | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Claremont–Mudd–Scripps | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Upper Iowa | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Claremont–Mudd–Scripps | 70 | ||||||||||||||
UW–Whitewater | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Hope | 88 | ||||||||||||||
Hope | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Kalamazoo | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Hope | 80 | ||||||||||||||
John Carroll | 61 | ||||||||||||||
John Carroll | 86 | ||||||||||||||
Wooster | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Hope | 69 | ||||||||||||||
Wittenberg | 60 | ||||||||||||||
UW–Oshkosh | 79 | ||||||||||||||
Simpson (IA) | 74 | ||||||||||||||
UW–Oshkosh | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Gustavus Adolphus | 61** | ||||||||||||||
Gustavus Adolphus | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Concordia–Moorhead | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Gustavus Adolphus | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Wittenberg | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Ohio Northern | 57 | ||||||||||||||
Capital | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Capital | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Wittenberg | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Wittenberg | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Baldwin Wallace | 61 |
First round | Second round | Sectional semifinals | Sectional finals | ||||||||||||
Williams | 78 | ||||||||||||||
Plymouth State | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Williams | 91 | ||||||||||||||
Bowdoin | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Bowdoin | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Springfield | 56 | ||||||||||||||
Williams | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Rowan | 85 | ||||||||||||||
Rowan | 130 | ||||||||||||||
York (NY) | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Rowan | 102 | ||||||||||||||
Jersey City State | 83 | ||||||||||||||
Staten Island | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Jersey City State | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Rowan | 98 | ||||||||||||||
Richard Stockton | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Anna Maria | 111 | ||||||||||||||
Babson | 90 | ||||||||||||||
Anna Maria | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Salem State | 67 | ||||||||||||||
Salem State | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Western Connecticut | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Anna Maria | 88 | ||||||||||||||
Richard Stockton | 95 | ||||||||||||||
NYU | 105 | ||||||||||||||
NJIT | 88 | ||||||||||||||
NYU | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Richard Stockton | 81* | ||||||||||||||
Richard Stockton | 80 | ||||||||||||||
Mount Saint Vincent | 54 |
First round | Second round | Sectional semifinals | Sectional finals | ||||||||||||
Wheaton (IL) | 131 | ||||||||||||||
Grinnell | 117 | ||||||||||||||
Wheaton (IL) | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Washington–St. Louis | 93 | ||||||||||||||
Washington–St. Louis | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Rose–Hulman | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Washington–St. Louis | 87 | ||||||||||||||
Christopher Newport | 71 | ||||||||||||||
Randolph–Macon | 57 | ||||||||||||||
Christopher Newport | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Christopher Newport | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Millsaps | 69 | ||||||||||||||
Millsaps | 83 | ||||||||||||||
Bridgewater (VA) | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Washington–St. Louis | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Illinois Wesleyan | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Hanover | 85 | ||||||||||||||
Fontbonne | 43 | ||||||||||||||
Hanover | 67 | ||||||||||||||
Illinois Wesleyan | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Illinois Wesleyan | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Ripon | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Illinois Wesleyan | 116 | ||||||||||||||
Roanoke | 88 | ||||||||||||||
Hendrix | 97 | ||||||||||||||
Stillman | 85 | ||||||||||||||
Hendrix | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Roanoke | 80 | ||||||||||||||
Roanoke | 128 | ||||||||||||||
Shenandoah | 110 |
National Semifinals | National Championship | ||||||
Franklin & Marshall | 57 | ||||||
Hope | 76 | ||||||
Hope | 93 | ||||||
Rowan | 100 | ||||||
Rowan | 79 | ||||||
Illinois Wesleyan | 66 | National Third-place | |||||
Franklin & Marshall | 57 | ||||||
Illinois Wesleyan | 89 |
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