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1961 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Champions
  
Wittenberg (1st title)

Finals Site
  
Evansville, Indiana

Winning coach
  
Ray Mears (1st title)

Runner-Up
  
Southeast Missouri State (1st title game)

Semifinalists
  
South Dakota State(1st Final Four) Mount St. Mary's(2nd Final Four)

The 1961 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 1960-61 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by Wittenberg University and South Dakota State's Don Jacobson was the Most Outstanding Player.

Contents

Regionals

  • Third Place - Kentucky Wesleyan 111, Chattanooga 80
  • Third Place - Virginia Union 70, Fairfield 66
  • Third Place - Rochester 82, Springfield 68
  • Third Place - Youngstown State 96, South Carolina State 82
  • Third Place - Evansville 98, MacMurray 97*
  • Third Place - Trinity 75, Colorado College 58
  • Third Place - Cornell 83, Wisconsin–Superior 72
  • Third Place - Chapman 68, Nevada 63

    • *denotes each overtime played

    National Finals

  • Third Place - South Dakota State 77, Mount St. Mary's 76

    • *denotes each overtime played

    References

    1961 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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