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1957 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Winning coach
  
Lee Pfund (1st title)

Finals Site
  
Evansville, Indiana

Champions
  
Wheaton (IL) (1st title)

Runner-Up
  
Kentucky Wesleyan (1st title game)

Semifinalists
  
Mount St. Mary's(1st Final Four) Cal State Los Angeles(1st Final Four)

The 1957 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA College Division college basketball as a culmination of the 1956-57 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. This was the first College Division men's basketball tournament and it was won by Wheaton College.

Bracket

  • Third Place - Mount St. Mary's 82, Cal State Los Angeles 72
  • *denotes each overtime played
    † denotes forfeited game

    References

    1957 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia