Centennial Conference men's basketball tournament

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Centennial Conference men's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
Sport Basketball
Conference Centennial Conference
Format Single-elimination tournament
Played1994–present
Current champion Swarthmore (4th)
Most championships Franklin & Marshall (8)
Official website Centennial men's basketball

The Centennial Conference men's basketball tournament is the annual conference basketball championship tournament for the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference. The tournament has been held annually since 1994. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. [1]

Contents

The tournament champion receives the Centennial's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship.

Format

Ten teams compete in this competition and each team face the other team twice each season, so there are 18 within-conference matches each season. After the regular season, the fifth ranked team visit the fourth ranked team for the first round match. Then the final four tournament is hosted by the first ranked team.

In 2004, the play-in match was played because Gettysburg and Haverford were tied for the fourth place, but the first round match has been always held between the fourth and the fifth ranked teams thereafter. Until 2003, ten teams were divided two east and west divisions and top two teams from each division advanced to the tournament while play-in match was played if two teams were tied for the second place in the division.

Results

YearChampionsScoreRunners-UpRefs
1994 Franklin & Marshall 63–61 Johns Hopkins [2]
1995 Muhlenberg 88–86 (OT)Franklin & Marshall [3]
1996Franklin & Marshall79–67 Gettysburg [4]
1997 Dickinson 90–59 Swarthmore [5]
1998Muhlenberg55–53Johns Hopkins [6]
1999Johns Hopkins78–52 Washington (MD) [7]
2000Franklin & Marshall75–67 (OT)Johns Hopkins [8]
2001Gettysburg68–59Muhlenberg [9] [10]
2002Gettysburg50–47Franklin & Marshall [11] [12]
2003 Ursinus 96–88 (OT)Franklin & Marshall [13]
2004Franklin & Marshall69–58Johns Hopkins [14] [15] [16]
2005Ursinus72–70Franklin & Marshall [17] [18]
2006Ursinus100–82Johns Hopkins [19] [20]
2007Johns Hopkins68–61 Haverford [21] [22]
2008Ursinus85–78Gettysburg [23] [24]
2009Gettysburg73–65Franklin & Marshall [25] [26] [27]
2010Franklin & Marshall66–62Gettysburg [28] [29] [30]
2011Franklin & Marshall65–55Dickinson [31] [32] [33]
2012Franklin & Marshall71–55Muhlenberg [34] [35]
2013Dickinson64–40Franklin & Marshall [36] [37] [38]
2014Johns Hopkins60–55Dickinson [39] [40] [41]
2015Dickinson65–62Johns Hopkins [42] [43] [44]
2016Franklin & Marshall75–64Swarthmore [45] [46] [47]
2017Swarthmore68–64Dickinson [48] [49] [50]
2018Johns Hopkins61–57Swarthmore [51] [52] [53]
2019Swarthmore79–61Johns Hopkins [54] [55] [56]
2020Johns Hopkins73–71Swarthmore [57] [58] [59]
2021Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022Johns Hopkins80–66Swarthmore [60] [61] [62]
2023Swarthmore76–73Johns Hopkins [63] [64] [65]
2024Swarthmore67–62Johns Hopkins

Championship records

Through 2023 tournament

Performance by school

SchoolFinals RecordFinals AppearancesYears won
Franklin & Marshall 8–6141994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016
Johns Hopkins 6–9151999, 2007, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022
Swarthmore 4–592017, 2019, 2023, 2024
Ursinus 4–042003, 2005, 2006, 2008
Dickinson 3–361997, 2013, 2015
Gettysburg 3–362001, 2002, 2009
Muhlenberg 2–241995, 1998
Haverford 0–11
Washington (MD) 0–11

Performance by year


Teams (# of titles)19941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020222023
Centennial (28)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)(10)
1 Franklin & Marshall (8)CFCSFSFCSFFFCFFCCCFSFSFCSFSF1R
2 Johns Hopkins (6)FSFFCFSFF1RFCSF1RSFCF1RCFCCF
3 Ursinus (4)PIPISFSFCSFCCSFC1RSFSFSFSF
4 Dickinson (3)CSFFSFCFCSFF1R1R
4 Gettysburg (3)FCCSFSFSFSFFCFSF1RSFSFSFSF
6 Swarthmore (3)SFFFCFCFFC
7 Muhlenberg (2)SFCSFPICSFSFFSF1R1RSFSFFSF1RSFSF
8 Haverford SFPISFFSFSF
8 Washington (MD) SFSFSFFSFSFSF1RSFSFSF1R
10 McDaniel SF1RSF1RSF1R1R

Key

CChampion
FRunner-up
SFSemifinals
1R1st round
PIPlay-in
•Did not participate

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