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1971 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Champions
  
Evansville (5th title)

Finals Site
  
Evansville, Indiana

Runner-Up
  
Old Dominion (1st title game)

Semifinalists
  
Southwestern Louisiana(Vacated Final Four) Kentucky Wesleyan(7th Final Four)

Winning coach
  
Arad McCutchan (5th title)

The 1971 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 1970-71 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by the University of Evansville and Evansville's Don Buse was the Most Outstanding Player.

Contents

The Southwestern Louisiana's tournament and semifinal appearances were later vacated due to NCAA rules violations.

Regional participants

*tournament appearance vacated

Regionals

  • Third Place - North Dakota State 96, St. Olaf 94
  • Third Place - Akron 77, Wooster 68
  • Third Place - Stetson 91, Roanoke 72
  • Third Place - Cal Poly 70, San Francisco State 68
  • Third Place - Sacred Heart 86, Stonehill 81
  • Third Place - Louisiana Tech 107, New Orleans 88
  • Third Place - Ashland 88, Augustana 65
  • Third Place - Montclair State 80, C. W. Post 68

    • *denotes each overtime played

    National Finals

  • Third Place - Southwestern Louisiana 105, Kentucky Wesleyan 83

    • *denotes each overtime played

    References

    1971 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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