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1976 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Winning coach
  
Don Zech (1st title)

Finals Site
  
Evansville, Indiana

Champions
  
Puget Sound (1st title)

Runner-Up
  
Chattanooga (1st title game)

Semifinalists
  
Eastern Illinois(1st Final Four) Old Dominion(2nd Final Four)

The 1976 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 1975-6 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by the University of Puget Sound and Puget Sound's Curt Peterson was the Most Outstanding Player.

Contents

Regional participants

*denotes tie

Regionals

  • Third Place - Wright State 72, St. Joseph's 68
  • Third Place - Bentley 83, Quinnipiac 77
  • Third Place - Rollins 101, Florida Tech 91
  • Third Place - Lincoln 86, Missouri-Rolla 84*
  • Third Place - Cal Poly Pomona 84, UC Davis 82*
  • Third Place - Minnesota State 95, Nebraska-Omaha 73
  • Third Place - Morgan State 86, James Madison 81
  • Third Place - Buffalo State 69, Hartwick 67

    • *denotes each overtime played

    National Finals

  • Third Place - Eastern Illinois 78, Old Dominion 74

    • *denotes each overtime played

    References

    1976 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia
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