2012 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament

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2012 NCAA Division III
men's basketball tournament
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Teams62
Finals site,
Salem, Virginia
Champions Whitewater State Warhawks (3rd title)
Runner-up Cabrini Cavaliers (1st title game)
Semifinalists
Winning coachPat Miller (1st title)
MOPChris Davis (UW-Whitewater)
NCAA Division III men's tournaments
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The 2012 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. It involved 62 teams, beginning on March 1, 2012 and concluded with the championship game on March 17, 2012, at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.

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The UW-Whitewater Warhawks won their third Division III title, defeating the Cabrini Cavaliers in the championship game by a score of 63-60. [1]

Tournament schedule and venues

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Middlebury
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Wooster
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Lancaster
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Amherst
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Salem
2012 Sectionals(blue) and Final Four (red)

The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 2012 tournament:

First and second rounds
Sectional sites
Final Four - Salem

Qualified teams

Automatic qualifiers

The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2013 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).

ConferenceSchoolAppearanceLast Bid
Allegheny Mountain Medaille 3rd2010
American Southwest McMurry 4th2011
Capital York (Pa.) 3rd2006
Centennial Franklin and Marshall 23rd2011
CUNYAC Staten Island 10th2002
CCIW North Central (Ill.) 6th2006
Colonial States Cabrini 10th2011
Commonwealth Coast Endicott 5th2006
Empire 8 Ithaca 9th2011
Great Northeast Albertus Magnus 2nd2010
Heartland Rose-Hulman 9th1999
Iowa Buena Vista 9th2008
Landmark Scranton 24th2011
Liberty Skidmore 2nd2011
Little East Eastern Connecticut 4th2000
MASCAC Salem State 23rd2009
Michigan Hope 23rd2011
MAC-Commonwealth Messiah 3rd2007
MAC-Freedom Misericordia 1stNever
Midwest Carroll 2nd2006
Minnesota St. Thomas 13th2011
New England Becker 2nd2011
NESCAC Amherst 14th2011
NEWMAC MIT 4th2011
New Jersey William Paterson 15th2010
North Atlantic Castleton State 2nd2004
North Coast Wooster 21st2011
North Eastern Morrisville State 1stNever
Northern Edgewood 3rd2005
Northwest Whitworth 7th2011
Ohio Capital 9th2009
Old Dominion Virginia Wesleyan 12th2011
Presidents' Bethany 8th2011
Skyline Farmingdale State 4th2009
SCIAC Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 11th2010
SCAC Trinity (Texas) 6th2008
SLIAC Westminster (Mo.) 3rd2010
SUNYAC Oswego State 2nd2011
UAA Washington U. 16th2010
Upper Midwest Northwestern (Minn.) 2nd2011
USA South Christopher Newport 18th2010
Wisconsin UW-River Falls 2nd2011

At-large qualifiers

The NCAA Selection Committee, by rule, must select one team from the conferences without automatic berths and non-affiliated schools (Pool B). The Selection Committee makes the remaining 19 selections at-large from all conferences (Pool C).

ConferenceSchoolAppearanceLast BidPool
Great South Maryville (Tenn.) 15th2010Pool B
SCAC Birmingham-Southern 1stNeverPool C
Minnesota Gustavus Adolphus 13th2005Pool C
Empire 8 Hartwick 6th2011Pool C
Liberty Hobart 2nd2001Pool C
CCIW Illinois Wesleyan 21st2011Pool C
American Southwest Mary Hardin-Baylor 5th2011Pool C
NESCAC Middlebury 5th2011Pool C
UAA NYU 26th2006Pool C
North Coast Ohio Wesleyan 3rd2008Pool C
Old Dominion Randolph-Macon 12th2011Pool C
Little East Rhode Island College 9th2011Pool C
Skyline St. Joseph's-Long Island 2nd2009Pool C
Capital St. Mary's (Md.) 4th2011Pool C
Heartland Transylvania 8th2009Pool C
Wisconsin UW-Stevens Point 11th2011Pool C
Wisconsin UW-Whitewater 17th2011Pool C
Little East Western Connecticut 12th2011Pool C
CCIW Wheaton (Ill.) 8th2010Pool C
North Coast Wittenberg 26th2011Pool C

Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period

Unless otherwise noted, all times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04)

Middlebury, VT Sectional

First round
March 2
Second round
March 3
Sectional Semifinals
March 9
Sectional Finals
March 10
        
Cabrini 104
Castleton State 87
Cabrini90*
Radnor, PA
Hobart 88
Hobart 64
Ohio Wesleyan 60
Cabrini72
E. Connecticut 65
Oswego State 72*
Endicott 71
Oswego State 69
Oswego, NY
E. Connecticut70**
E. Connecticut 69
Medaille 51
Cabrini78
Scranton 58
Middlebury 75
Morrisville State 49
Middlebury89
Middlebury, VT
Albertus Magnus 73
Albertus Magnus 87
St. Joseph's-L.I. 84
Middlebury 55
Scranton58
William Paterson 53
Becker 69
Becker 41
Wayne, NJ
Scranton69
Messiah 67
Scranton 70*

Wooster, OH Sectional

First round
March 2
Second round
March 3
Sectional Semifinals
March 9
Sectional Finals
March 10
        
Washington U. 71
Buena Vista 59
Washington U. 68
St. Louis, MO
North Central (Ill.)72
North Central (Ill.) 74
Rose-Hulman 71
North Central 55
Wittenberg58
Transylvania 74
Carroll 84
Carroll 70
Lexington, KY
Wittenberg87
Wittenberg 63
Birmingham-Southern 56
Wittenberg 49
Illinois Wesleyan70
Wooster 70
Maryville (Tenn.) 63
Wooster92
Wooster, OH
Capital 79
Randolph-Macon 60
Capital 68
Wooster 67
Illinois Wesleyan69
Hope 79
Westminster (Mo.) 65
Hope 101
Holland, MI
Illinois Wesleyan108**
UW-Stevens Point 61
Illinois Wesleyan 69

Lancaster, PA Sectional

First round
March 1/March 2
Second round
March 3
Sectional Semifinals
March 9
Sectional Finals
March 10
        
Amherst 80
New York, NY / Amherst, MA
NYU 56
NYU 84
Misericordia 65
Amherst 71
Franklin & Marshall80
Franklin & Marshall 72
York (Pa.) 50
Franklin & Marshall82
Lancaster, PA
W. Connecticut 72
W. Connecticut 94
Christopher Newport 84
Franklin & Marshall 54
MIT69
Hartwick 88
Farmingdale State 98*
Farmingdale State 63
Oneonta, NY
MIT83
MIT 62
Skidmore 55
MIT83
Staten Island 67
Staten Island 98
Ithaca 73
Staten Island77
Staten Island, NY
Rhode Island C. 67
Rhode Island C. 77
Salem State 60

Whitewater, WI Sectional

First round
March 1/March 2
Second round
March 3
Sectional Semifinals
March 9
Sectional Finals
March 10
        
Virginia Wesleyan 70
St. Mary's City, MD / Virginia Beach, VA
St. Mary's (Md.) 57
St. Mary's (Md.) 69
Bethany 57
Virginia Wesleyan74*
Whitworth 71
Mary Hardin-Baylor 66
Trinity (Texas) 68
Trinity (Texas) 53
Belton, TX
Whitworth64
Whitworth 90
McMurry 79
Virginia Wesleyan 62
UW-Whitewater76
UW-River Falls 67
Edgewood 75
Edgewood 62
River Falls, WI
Wheaton (Ill.)73
Wheaton (Ill.) 68
Gustavus Adolphus 60
Wheaton (Ill.) 56
UW-Whitewater67
UW-Whitewater 83
Northwestern (Minn.) 68
UW-Whitewater91
Whitewater, WI
St. Thomas 62
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 74
St. Thomas 76*

Final Four - Salem, Virginia

Semifinals
March 16
national championship
March 17
    
Cabrini81
Illinois Wesleyan 78
Cabrini 60
UW-Whitewater63
MIT 56
UW-Whitewater71

Record by conference

Conference# of BidsRecordWin %R62R32S16E8F4CGNC
Wisconsin 36-2.7503111111
CSAC 15–1.833111111
CCIW 38–3.72733311
NEWMAC 14–1.80011111
North Coast 35–3.6253221
Centennial 13–1.7501111
Landmark 13–1.7501111
ODAC 22–2.5001111
NESCAC 23–2.600222
Little East 34–3.571331
CUNYAC 12–1.667111
Northwest 12–1.667111
UAA 22–2.50022
Capital 21–2.33321
Liberty League 21–2.33321
Michigan 21–2.33321
SCAC 21–2.33321
Skyline 21–2.33321
Great Northeast 11–1.50011
Michigan 11–1.50011
Midwest 11–1.50011
New England 11–1.50011
Northern 11–1.50011
Ohio 11–1.50011
SUNYAC 11–1.50011

    See also

    References

    1. "2012 Division III men's basketball tournament". NCAA.com. Archived from the original on October 4, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.