Teams | 64 | ||||
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Finals site | Oshkosh, Wisconsin | ||||
Champions | Wisconsin–Oshkosh Titans (1st title) | ||||
Runner-up | Mount Union Purple Raiders (1st title game) | ||||
Third place | St. Thomas Tommies (3rd Final Four) | ||||
Fourth place | NYU Violets (1st Final Four) | ||||
Winning coach | Kathi Bennett (1st title) | ||||
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The 1996 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the 15th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States. [1]
Wisconsin–Oshkosh defeated Mount Union in the championship game, 66–50, to claim the Titans' first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Play-in round February 28, 1996 Campus sites | Second round March 2, 1996 Campus sites | Sectional semifinals March 8, 1996 Defiance, OH | Sectional finals March 9, 1996 Defiance, OH | ||||||||||||
Southern Maine* | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Regis (MA) | 48 | ||||||||||||||
Southern Maine* | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Northeast Region | |||||||||||||||
Westfield State | 52 | ||||||||||||||
Worcester Tech | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Westfield State* | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Southern Maine | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Mount Union | 79 | ||||||||||||||
Capital* | 71 | ||||||||||||||
Muskingum | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Capital | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Atlantic Region | |||||||||||||||
Mount Union* | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Wittenberg | 51 | ||||||||||||||
Mount Union* | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Mount Union | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Defiance | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Middlebury* | 67 | ||||||||||||||
Emmanuel (MA) | 54 | ||||||||||||||
Middlebury | 55 | ||||||||||||||
Northeast Region | |||||||||||||||
Salem State* | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Eastern Connecticut | 47 | ||||||||||||||
Salem State* | 69 | ||||||||||||||
Salem State | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Defiance | 84 | ||||||||||||||
Salisbury | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Goucher* | 53 | ||||||||||||||
Salisbury | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Atlantic Region | |||||||||||||||
Defiance* | 94 | ||||||||||||||
Baldwin Wallace | 73 | ||||||||||||||
Defiance* | 84 |
Play-in round February 28, 1996 Campus sites | Second round March 2, 1996 Campus sites | Sectional semifinals March 8, 1996 Ashland, VA | Sectional finals March 9, 1996 Ashland, VA | ||||||||||||
Randolph-Macon* | 91 | ||||||||||||||
Shenandoah | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Randolph-Macon* | 99 | ||||||||||||||
South Region | |||||||||||||||
Millsaps | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Hendrix | 57 | ||||||||||||||
Millsaps* | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Randolph-Macon | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Bethel (MN)* | 96 | ||||||||||||||
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps* | 62 | ||||||||||||||
La Verne | 61 | ||||||||||||||
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 60 | ||||||||||||||
West Region | |||||||||||||||
Bethel (MN)* | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Concordia Moorhead | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Bethel (MN)* | 64 | ||||||||||||||
Bethel (MN) | 57 | ||||||||||||||
St. Thomas (MN) | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Maryville (TN)* | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Roanoke | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Maryville (TN) | 53 | ||||||||||||||
South Region | |||||||||||||||
Marymount (VA)* | 92 | ||||||||||||||
Trinity (TX) | 53 | ||||||||||||||
Marymount (VA)* | 92 | ||||||||||||||
Marymount (VA) | 62 | ||||||||||||||
St. Thomas (MN) | 67 | ||||||||||||||
UC San Diego* | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Pomona-Pitzer | 57 | ||||||||||||||
UC San Diego | 42 | ||||||||||||||
West Region | |||||||||||||||
St. Thomas (MN)* | 66 | ||||||||||||||
St. Benedict | 52 | ||||||||||||||
St. Thomas (MN)* | 68 |
Play-in round February 28, 1996 Campus sites | Second round March 2, 1996 Campus sites | Sectional semifinals March 8, 1996 New York, NY | Sectional finals March 9, 1996 New York, NY | ||||||||||||
Rowan* | 81 | ||||||||||||||
Elizabethtown | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Rowan* | 90 | ||||||||||||||
Mid-Atlantic Region | |||||||||||||||
Messiah | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Messiah | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Allentown* | 65 | ||||||||||||||
Rowan | 97 | ||||||||||||||
William Smith | 69 | ||||||||||||||
William Smith* | 83 | ||||||||||||||
Hartwick | 61 | ||||||||||||||
William Smith* | 85 | ||||||||||||||
East Region | |||||||||||||||
Geneseo State | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Binghamton | 66 | ||||||||||||||
Geneseo State* | 71 | ||||||||||||||
Rowan | 63 | ||||||||||||||
NYU | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Johns Hopkins* | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Alvernia | 58 | ||||||||||||||
Johns Hopkins | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Mid-Atlantic Region | |||||||||||||||
Scranton* | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Cabrini | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Scranton* | 85 | ||||||||||||||
Scranton | 48 | ||||||||||||||
NYU | 77 | ||||||||||||||
Nazareth* | 59 | ||||||||||||||
St. John Fisher | 60 | ||||||||||||||
St. John Fisher | 41 | ||||||||||||||
East Region | |||||||||||||||
NYU* | 82 | ||||||||||||||
CCNY | 43 | ||||||||||||||
NYU | * |
Play-in round February 28, 1996 Campus sites | Second round March 2, 1996 Campus sites | Sectional semifinals March 8, 1996 Decatur, IL | Sectional finals March 9, 1996 Decatur, IL | ||||||||||||
Millikin* | 74 | ||||||||||||||
MacMurray | 43 | ||||||||||||||
Millikin* | 74 | ||||||||||||||
Central Region | |||||||||||||||
Luther | 59 | ||||||||||||||
Luther | 91 | ||||||||||||||
Buena Vista* | 76 | ||||||||||||||
Millikin | 71 | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Eau Claire | 90 | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Eau Claire* | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Stout | 41 | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Eau Claire* | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Great Lakes Region | |||||||||||||||
Calvin | 47 | ||||||||||||||
Ripon | 50 | ||||||||||||||
Calvin* | 60 | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Eau Claire | 57 | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Oshkosh | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Wheaton (IL)* | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Carthage | 71 | ||||||||||||||
Wheaton | 62 | ||||||||||||||
Central Region | |||||||||||||||
Washington St. Louis* | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Illinois Wesleyan | 63 | ||||||||||||||
Washington St. Louis* | 68 | ||||||||||||||
Washington St. Louis | 53 | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Oshkosh | 75 | ||||||||||||||
Alma* | 44 | ||||||||||||||
Beloit | 47 | ||||||||||||||
Beloit | 50 | ||||||||||||||
Great Lakes Region | |||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Oshkosh* | 69 | ||||||||||||||
DePauw | 45 | ||||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Oshkosh* | 77 |
Final Four March 15, 1996 Oshkosh, WI | National championship March 16, 1996 Oshkosh, WI | ||||||
Mount Union | 71 | ||||||
St. Thomas (MN) | 57 | ||||||
Mount Union | 50 | ||||||
Wisconsin–Oshkosh | 66 | ||||||
NYU | 37 | ||||||
Wisconsin–Oshkosh | 62 | Third place | |||||
St. Thomas (MN) | 75 | ||||||
NYU | 51 |
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