Current season, competition or edition: 2024 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament | |
Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 1975 |
No. of teams | 64 |
Country | NCAA Division III (USA) |
Most recent champion(s) | Trine (2024; 1st title) |
Most titles | North Park (5 titles) |
TV partner(s) | CBS Sports Network |
Official website | NCAA.com |
The NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament (officially styled as "Championship" instead of "Tournament") is a tournament to determine the NCAA Division III national champion. It has been held annually from 1975 to 2019 & since 2022, but not played in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 issues.
From 1996 to 2012 and 2014 to 2018, the NCAA Division III men's basketball championship was held at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia. The event had been hosted by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the City of Salem. From 2017 to 2020 & since 2022, the tournament has been a 64-team single-elimination tournament, with teams advancing from four sectionals to the semifinals and final in Fort Wayne.
For 2013, as part of the celebration of the 75th NCAA Division I tournament, the championship games in both the NCAA Division II and Division III tournaments were played at Philips Arena, now known as State Farm Arena, in Atlanta. [1] From 2014 to 2018, the final game returned to Salem. [2] Currently, the Final Four is held in Fort Wayne, Indiana at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. For 2020 only, the national semifinals were to be played in Fort Wayne, but the championship game was to have returned to Atlanta, with the NCAA choosing to hold the championship games of both Divisions II and III as part of the festivities surrounding the men's Division I Final Four; however, the NCAA decided to abandon the tournament after the second round, 16 teams remaining. [3] The NCAA also canceled the 2021 tournament after a majority of D-III conferences chose not to play due to continued COVID-19 issues. Of teams and conferences that played, D3Hoops' top two ranked teams, No. 1 Randolph-Macon College and No. 2 Trine University, opted to play a self-organised mythical national championship game. Randolph-Macon won, 69-55. [4]
Trine is the defending national champion, beating Hampden–Sydney 69–61 in the 2024 championship.
Since 2023–24, a total of 64 bids have been available for each tournament:
Schools in italics are, as of the current 2023–24 basketball season, no longer members of that specific conference.
Defunct NCAA Division III men's conference tournaments | ||||
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Conference | Tournament | First year | Last year | Most titles |
Colonial States | Tournament | 1994 | 2023 | Cabrini (13) |
NECC | Tournament | 2009 | 2023 | Elms and Mitchell (4) |
Team | Titles | Years |
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North Park | 5 | 1978, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1987 |
Wisconsin-Stevens Point} | 4 | 2004, 2005, 2010, 2015 |
Wisconsin-Whitewater | 4 | 1984, 1989, 2012, 2014 |
Wisconsin-Platteville | 4 | 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999 |
Amherst | 2 | 2007, 2013 |
Calvin | 2 | 1992, 2000 |
Scranton | 2 | 1976, 1983 |
SUNY Potsdam | 2 | 1981, 1986 |
Washington-St. Louis | 2 | 2008, 2009 |
Trine | 1 | 2024 |
Christopher Newport | 1 | 2023 |
Randolph-Macon | 1 | 2022 |
Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 1 | 2019 |
Nebraska Wesleyan | 1 | 2018 |
Babson | 1 | 2017 |
Virginia Wesleyan | 1 | 2006 |
Williams | 1 | 2003 |
Otterbein | 1 | 2002 |
Catholic | 1 | 2001 |
Illinois Wesleyan | 1 | 1997 |
Rowan | 1 | 1996 |
Lebanon Valley | 1 | 1994 |
Ohio Northern | 1 | 1993 |
Rochester | 1 | 1990 |
Ohio Wesleyan | 1 | 1988 |
Wabash | 1 | 1982 |
Wittenberg | 1 | 1977 |
Team | Titles | Years |
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St. Thomas (MN) [Note 1] | 2 | 2011, 2016 |
LeMoyne-Owen [Note 2] | 1 | 1975 |
Bids | School | Conference | First Bid | Most Recent |
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30 | Hope | Michigan | 1982 | 2024 |
30 | Wittenberg | North Coast | 1975 | 2020 |
29 | Scranton | Landmark | 1975 | 2023 |
29 | Wooster | North Coast | 1978 | 2020 |
27 | Christopher Newport | Coast to Coast | 1986 | 2024 |
26 | Illinois Wesleyan | CCIW | 1984 | 2022 |
25 | Franklin & Marshall | Centennial | 1975 | 2018 |
25 | Salem State | MASCAC | 1980 | 2019 |
25 | Washington–St. Louis | UAA | 1987 | 2024 |
23 | Calvin | Michigan | 1980 | 2024 |
22 | Wisconsin–Whitewater | Wisconsin | 1983 | 2023 |
20 | Amherst | NESCAC | 1994 | 2019 |
20 | Maryville (TN) | CCS | 1991 | 2019 |
20 | Randolph–Macon | Old Dominion | 1990 | 2024 |
20 | Williams | NESCAC | 1994 | 2024 |
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