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1969 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Finals Site
  
Evansville, Indiana

Champions
  
Kentucky Wesleyan (3rd title)

Runner-Up
  
SW Missouri State (3rd title game)

Semifinalists
  
American International*(1st Final Four) Ashland(2nd Final Four)

Winning coach
  
Bob Daniels (2nd title)

The 1969 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 1968-69 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by Kentucky Wesleyan College and Kentucky Wesleyan's George Tinsley was the Most Outstanding Player.

Contents

American International College's tournament and semifinal appearances were later vacated due to NCAA rules violations.

Regional participants

*tournament appearance vacated

Regionals

  • Third Place - Norfolk State 113, Old Dominion 102
  • Third Place - Transylvania 65, Bellarmine 64
  • Third Place -UC Irvine 82, UC Davis 70
  • Third Place - Assumption 98, Central Connecticut State 77
  • Third Place - Albany 71, Le Moyne 70
  • Third Place - Lincoln 77, St. Olaf 72
  • Third Place - North Park 90, Concordia 73
  • Third Place - Philadelphia U 76, Wittenberg 74

    • *denotes each overtime played

    National Finals

  • Third Place - American International 53, Ashland 51

    • *denotes each overtime played

    References

    1969 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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