List of NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championships
Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 1957 |
No. of teams | 64 |
Country | NCAA Division II (USA) |
Most recent champion(s) | Augustana (SD) (1) |
Official website | NCAA.com |
The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship is an annual championship tournament for colleges and universities that are members of NCAA Division II, a grouping of schools in the United States (plus one school in Canada) that are generally smaller than the higher-profile institutions of Division I. The tournament, originally known as the NCAA College Division Basketball Championship, was established in 1957, immediately after the NCAA subdivided its member schools into the University Division (today's Division I) and College Division. It became the Division II championship in 1974, when the NCAA split the College Division into the limited-scholarship Division II and the non-scholarship Division III, and added the "Men's" designation in 1982 when the NCAA began sponsoring a Division II women's championship.
Like all other NCAA basketball divisions for men and women, the champion is decided in a single-elimination tournament. The Division II tournament has 64 teams. The Division II tournaments for men and women differ in a major respect from those in Divisions I and III. The finals of both Division II tournaments consist of eight teams, instead of the four in the other two divisions. The eight survivors of regional play meet in the Elite Eight at a predetermined site.
Championship game results
- ↑ Kentucky Wesleyan subsequently forfeited its 2003 runner-up status after it was revealed they had let two ineligible transfer players play.[1]
- ↑ Philips Arena in Atlanta was the site of the championship game only. The rest of the Elite Eight was played at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.
Records and statistics
Championships by school
Team appearances
Former Division II Champions now in Division I
Source: [7]
School | Championship(s) | Year moved | Current Conference |
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South Dakota | 1958 | 2006 | The Summit League |
Evansville | 1959 • 1960 • 1964 • 1965 • 1971 | 1978 | Missouri Valley Conference |
Mount St. Mary's | 1962 | 1989 | Northeast Conference |
South Dakota State | 1963 | 2005 | The Summit League |
Morgan State | 1974 | 1985 | Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference |
Old Dominion | 1975 | 1977 | Conference USA |
Chattanooga | 1977 | 1978 | Southern Conference |
Wright State | 1983 | 1988 | Horizon League |
Jacksonville State | 1985 | 1996 | Ohio Valley Conference |
Sacred Heart | 1986 | 1999 | Northeast Conference |
UMass Lowell | 1988 | 2013 | America East Conference |
North Carolina Central | 1989 | 2008 | Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference |
CSU Bakersfield | 1993 • 1994 • 1997 | 2007 | Western Athletic Conference |
UC Davis | 1998 | 2004 | Big West Conference |
Kennesaw State | 2004 | 2006 | Atlantic Sun Conference |
See also
- NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship
- NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship
- NAIA Men's Basketball Championships
References
- ↑ "PLUS: COLLEGE BASKETBALL; Kentucky Wesleyan Forfeits an Honor". The New York Times. August 7, 2003. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
- ↑ "Ballarmine wins national championship". The Courier-Journal. March 26, 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
- ↑ http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2013-04-07/calm-cool-and-collected
- ↑ http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2016-03-26/augustana-wins-2016-ncaa-division-ii-mens-basketball
- ↑ http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_champs_records/2013/d2/elite8.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ncaa.com/history/basketball-men/d2
- ↑ http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec2/sponsorship