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1963 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Finals Site
  
Evansville, Indiana

Champions
  
South Dakota State (1st title)

Runner-Up
  
Wittenberg (2nd title game)

Semifinalists
  
Oglethorpe(1st Final Four) Southern Illinois(2nd Final Four)

Winning coach
  
Jim Iverson (1st title)

The 1963 NCAA College Division 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 1962-63 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by South Dakota State University and South Dakota State's Wayne Rasmussen was the Most Outstanding Player.

Contents

Regionals

  • Third Place - Bellarmine 96, Austin Peay 86
  • Third Place - Hofstra 78, Mount St. Mary's 71
  • Third Place - Youngstown State 65, Buffalo 53
  • Third Place - Assumption 66, Fairleigh Dickinson 51
  • Third Place - Concordia 92, Augustana 84
  • Third Place - Arkansas State 77, SE Missouri State 75
  • Third Place - Michigan Tech 71, Cornell 61
  • Third Place - UC Santa Barbara 58, San Francisco State 56

    • *denotes each overtime played

    National Finals

  • Third Place - Oglethorpe 68, Southern Illinois 64

    • *denotes each overtime played

    References

    1963 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
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