NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship

The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship is an annual championship tournament for colleges and universities that are members of NCAA Division II, a grouping of schools in the United States (plus one school in Canada) that are generally smaller than the higher-profile institutions of Division I. The tournament, originally known as the NCAA College Division Basketball Championship, was established in 1957, immediately after the NCAA subdivided its member schools into the University Division (today's Division I) and College Division. It became the Division II championship in 1974, when the NCAA split the College Division into the limited-scholarship Division II and the non-scholarship Division III, and added the "Men's" designation in 1982 when the NCAA began sponsoring national championships in women's sports.

Like all other NCAA basketball divisions for men and women, the champion is decided in a single-elimination tournament. The Division II tournament has 64 teams. The Division II tournaments for men and women differ in a major respect from those in Divisions I and III. The finals of both Division II tournaments consist of eight teams, instead of the four in the other two divisions.^{[citation needed]} The eight survivors of regional play meet in the Elite Eight at a predetermined site.

Championship game results

Year	Champion	Score	Runner up	Score
1957	Wheaton	89	Kentucky Wesleyan	65
1958	South Dakota	75	St. Michael's	53
1959	Evansville	83	Southwest Missouri State	67
1960	Evansville	90	Chapman	69
1961	Wittenberg	42	Southeast Missouri State	38
1962†	Mount St. Mary's	58	Sacramento State	57
1963	South Dakota State	44	Wittenberg	42
1964	Evansville	72	Akron	59
1965†	Evansville	85	Southern Illinois	82
1966	Kentucky Wesleyan	54	Southern Illinois	51
1967	Winston-Salem State	77	Southwest Missouri State	74
1968	Kentucky Wesleyan	63	Indiana State	52
1969	Kentucky Wesleyan	75	Southwest Missouri State	71
1970	Philadelphia Textile	76	Tennessee State	65
1971	Evansville	97	Old Dominion	82
1972	Roanoke	84	Akron	72
1973†	Kentucky Wesleyan	78	Tennessee State	76
1974	Morgan State	67	Southwest Missouri State	52
1975	Old Dominion	76	New Orleans	74
1976	Puget Sound	83	Chattanooga	74
1977	Chattanooga	71	Randolph-Macon	62
1978	Cheyney	47	Wisconsin-Green Bay	40
1979	North Alabama	64	Wisconsin-Green Bay	50
1980	Virginia Union	80	New York Tech	74
1981	Florida Southern	73	Mount St. Mary's	68
1982	District of Columbia	73	Florida Southern	63
1983	Wright State	92	District of Columbia	73
1984	Central Missouri State	81	St. Augustine's	77
1985	Jacksonville State	74	South Dakota State	73
1986	Sacred Heart	93	Southeast Missouri State	87
1987	Kentucky Wesleyan	92	Gannon	74
1988	Lowell	75	Alaska-Anchorage	72
1989	North Carolina Central	73	Southeast Missouri State	46
1990	Kentucky Wesleyan	93	Cal State Bakersfield	79
1991	North Alabama	79	Bridgeport	72
1992	Virginia Union	100	Bridgeport	75
1993	Cal State Bakersfield	85	Troy State	72
1994	Cal State Bakersfield	92	Southern Indiana	86
1995	Southern Indiana	71	UC Riverside	63
1996	Fort Hays State	70	Northern Kentucky	63
1997	Cal State Bakersfield	57	Northern Kentucky	56
1998	UC Davis	83	Kentucky Wesleyan	77
1999	Kentucky Wesleyan	75	Metropolitan State	60
2000	Metropolitan State	97	Kentucky Wesleyan	79
2001	Kentucky Wesleyan	72	Washburn	63
2002	Metropolitan State	80	Kentucky Wesleyan	72
2003*	Northeastern State	75	Kentucky Wesleyan	64
2004	Kennesaw State	84	Southern Indiana	59
2005	Virginia Union	63	Bryant	58
2006	Winona State	73	Virginia Union	61
2007	Barton	77	Winona State	75
2008	Winona State	87	Augusta State	76
2009†	Findlay	56	Cal Poly Pomona	53
2010	Cal Poly Pomona	65	Indiana (PA)	53
2011[1]	Bellarmine	71	BYU–Hawaii	68

† Overtime

* Kentucky Wesleyan subsequently forfeited its 2003 runner-up status after it was revealed they had let two ineligible transfer players play^[2]

Schools ranked by most championships

School	Titles
Kentucky Wesleyan	8
Evansville	5
Cal State Bakersfield	3
Virginia Union	3
Metropolitan State	2
North Alabama	2
Winona State	2

Locations

Years	Location
1957–1976	Roberts Municipal Stadium (Evansville, Indiana)
1977	MassMutual Center (Springfield, Massachusetts)
1978–1979	Hammons Student Center (Springfield, Missouri)
1980–1994	MassMutual Center (Springfield, Massachusetts)
1995–2000	Commonwealth Convention Center (Louisville, Kentucky)
2001	Rabobank Arena (Bakersfield, California)
2002	Roberts Municipal Stadium (Evansville, Indiana)
2003	Lakeland Center (Lakeland, Florida)
2004	Rabobank Arena (Bakersfield, California)
2005	Bison Sports Arena (Fargo, North Dakota)
2006–2011	MassMutual Center (Springfield, Massachusetts)
2012–2013	The Bank of Kentucky Center (Highland Heights, Kentucky)[3]

See also

• NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
• NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship
• NAIA national men's basketball championship

References

1. ^ "Ballarmine wins national championship". The Courier-Journal. March 26, 2011. http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110326/SPORTS12/303260051/1010/FEATURES/Bellarmine-beats-BYU-Hawaii-71-68-championship-game. Retrieved 2011-03-26. 
2. ^ "PLUS: COLLEGE BASKETBALL; Kentucky Wesleyan Forfeits an Honor". The New York Times. August 7, 2003. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/07/sports/plus-college-basketball-kentucky-wesleyan-forfeits-an-honor.html. Retrieved 2011-03-26. 
3. ^ "NCAA selects NKU as host for 2012 and 2013 Division II Elite Eight for men's basketball" (Press release). Northern Kentucky University Athletics. June 11, 2010. http://nkunorse.com/news/2010/6/11/MBB_0611103213.aspx. Retrieved July 21, 2010.