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NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament

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Sport
  
Basketball

No. of teams
  
64.

TV partner(s)
  
CBS Sports Network

Founded
  
1975

Most recent champion(s)
  
Babson (1)

NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament

Country
  
NCAA Division III (USA)

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The NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship is an annual tournament to determine NCAA Division III national champion.

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Since 1996, the NCAA Division III men's basketball championship has been held at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia. The event has been hosted by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the City of Salem. Since 2017, the tournament is a 64-team single-elimination tournament, with teams advancing from four regionals to the semifinals and final in Salem.

For 2013, as part of the celebration of the 75th NCAA Division I tournament, the championship games in both the Division II and Division III NCAA tournaments were played at Philips Arena in Atlanta. Since 2014, the final game returned to Salem.

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Qualification

As of 2017, a total of 64 bids are available for each tournament:

  • 42 automatic bids, awarded to the champions of the forty-two Division II conferences
  • 20 at-large bids
  • Summary

  • Source:
  • Locations

  • Reading, Pennsylvania 1975–1976
  • Rock Island, Illinois 1977–1981
  • Grand Rapids, Michigan 1982–1988
  • Springfield, Ohio 1989–1992
  • Buffalo, New York 1993–1995
  • Salem, Virginia 1996- (semifinals only in 2013)
  • Atlanta, Georgia 2013 (championship game only)
  • References

    NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament Wikipedia