NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament is an annual tournament to determine NCAA Division III national champion.
From 1996 to 2012, 2014 to 2018, the NCAA Division III men's basketball championship was held at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia. The event had 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 Fort Wayne.
For 2013, as part of the celebration of the 75th NCAA Division I tournament, the championship games in both the NCAA Division II and Division III tournaments were played at Philips Arena, now known as State Farm Arena, in Atlanta. From 2014 to 2018, the final game returned to Salem. Currently, the Final Four is held in Fort Wayne, Indiana at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. For 2020 only, the national semifinals was to be played in Fort Wayne, but the championship game was to have returned to Atlanta, with the NCAA choosing to hold the championship games of both Divisions II and III as part of the festivities surrounding the men's Division I Final Four; however, the NCAA decided to call off the rest of the tournament.
Wisconsin-Oshkosh is the reigning national champions.
Qualification
Since 2017, a total of 64 bids are available for the tournament:- 43 automatic bids, awarded to the champions of all Division III conferences.
- 21 at-large bids.
Conference tournaments
Schools in italics are, as of the current 2019–20 basketball season, no longer members of that specific conference.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 1996-2018
- Atlanta 2013, 2020
- Fort Wayne, Indiana 2019–present
Championships, by team
| School | Titles | Years |
| North Park | 5 | 1978, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1987 |
| Wisconsin–Stevens Point | 4 | 2004, 2005, 2010, 2015 |
| Wisconsin–Whitewater | 4 | 1984, 1989, 2012, 2014 |
| Wisconsin–Platteville | 4 | 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999 |
| St. Thomas | 2 | 2011, 2016 |
| Amherst | 2 | 2007, 2013 |
| Calvin | 2 | 1992, 2000 |
| Potsdam State | 2 | 1981, 1986 |
| Scranton | 2 | 1976, 1983 |
| Washington | 2 | 2008, 2009 |
| Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 1 | 2019 |
| Nebraska Wesleyan | 1 | 2018 |
| Babson | 1 | 2017 |
| Virginia Wesleyan | 1 | 2006 |
| Williams | 1 | 2003 |
| Otterbein | 1 | 2002 |
| Catholic | 1 | 2001 |
| Illinois Wesleyan | 1 | 1997 |
| Rowan | 1 | 1996 |
| Lebanon Valley | 1 | 1994 |
| Ohio Northern | 1 | 1993 |
| Rochester | 1 | 1990 |
| Ohio Wesleyan | 1 | 1988 |
| Wabash | 1 | 1982 |
| Wittenberg | 1 | 1977 |
| LeMoyne–Owen | 1 | 1975 |
Appearances, by team
- Programs with more than 20 appearances in the Division III tournament:
| Bids | School | Conference | First Bid | Most Recent |
| 29 | Wittenberg | NCAC | 1975 | 2019 |
| 28 | Scranton | Landmark | 1975 | 2017 |
| 28 | Wooster | NCAC | 1978 | 2019 |
| 27 | Hope | MIAA | 1982 | 2018 |
| 25 | Franklin & Marshall | Centennial | 1975 | 2018 |
| 25 | Illinois Wesleyan | CCIW | 1984 | 2018 |
| 25 | Salem State | MASCAC | 1980 | 2019 |
| 23 | Christopher Newport | Capital | 1986 | 2019 |
| 21 | Calvin | MIAA | 1980 | 2017 |
| 21 | Washington–St. Louis | UAA | 1987 | 2018 |
| 21 | Wisconsin–Whitewater | WIAC | 1983 | 2017 |