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1980 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament

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Teams
  
32

Runner-Up
  
NYIT (1st title game)

Finals Site
  
Springfield, Massachusetts

Champions
  
Virginia Union (1st title)

Semifinalists
  
Florida Southern(1st Final Four) North Alabama(2nd Final Four)

Winning coach
  
Dave Robbins (1st title)

The 1980 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 1979-80 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by Virginia Union University and Virginia Union's Keith Valentine was the Most Outstanding Player.

Contents

Regional participants

*denotes tie

Regionals

  • Third Place - Mount St. Mary's 84, Benedict 82
  • Third Place - Quinnipiac 102, Bryant 97
  • Third Place - Stonehill 70, North Dakota 57
  • Third Place - West Georgia 75, Bethune-Cookman 63
  • Third Place - Puget Sound 93, San Francisco State 86
  • Third Place - Central Missouri 112, Jacksonville State 91
  • Third Place - Cheyney 87, Gannon 86
  • Third Place - Wright State 88, Southern Indiana 85
  • *denotes each overtime played

    National Finals

  • Third Place - Florida Southern 68, North Alabama 67
  • *denotes each overtime played

    References

    1980 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia