1973 NCAA College Division basketball tournament

Edition of USA college basketball tournament

1973 NCAA College Division
basketball tournamentTeams| 42

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Finals site| Evansville, Indiana
Champions| Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers (4th title)
Runner-up| Tennessee State Tigers (2nd title game)
Semifinalists|

* Assumption Greyhounds (1st Final Four)
* Brockport State Golden Eagles (1st Final Four)

Winning coach| Bob Jones (1st title)
MOP| Mike Williams (Kentucky Wesleyan)
Attendance| 18,318
| NCAA Division II men's tournaments

«1972 | 1974»

The 1973 NCAA College Division basketball tournament involved 42 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA College Division basketball as a culmination of the 1972-73 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by Kentucky Wesleyan College and Kentucky Wesleyan's Mike Williams was the Most Outstanding Player.

This was the last College Division basketball tournament. Effective with the next school year of 1973–74, the NCAA adopted the three-division setup that exists to this day. The top-level University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two. College Division members that wished to award athletic scholarships were placed in Division II, while those that chose to remain non-scholarship were placed in Division III.

Hartford

Bridgeport

Lexington

Fayetteville

Miami

Riverside

Reading

Akron

Chester

Worcester

Hammond

Oneonta

Salem

Evansville

Bakersfield

Springfield

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1973 NCAA Division II Men's sites - first round (white) regionals (cyan) Elite Eight (red)

## Regional participants[edit]

School  | Outcome
Coe | Regional Champion
South Dakota State | Runner-up
Southern Colorado | Fourth Place
SW Missouri State | Third Place

School  | Outcome
Assumption | Regional Champion
Bentley | Runner-up
Bridgeport | Third Place
Hartford | Fifth Place*
St. Michael's | Fourth Place
Stonehill | Fifth Place*

School  | Outcome
Akron | Regional Champion
Cheyney | Third Place
Hiram | Fifth Place*
Lebanon Valley | Fifth Place*
Philadelphia Textile | Fourth Place
Steubenville | Runner-up

School  | Outcome
Albany State | Fifth Place
Chattanooga | Third Place
SE Louisiana | Runner-up
Tennessee State | Regional Champion
Transylvania | Fourth Place

School  | Outcome
Capital | Third Place
Kentucky Wesleyan | Regional Champion
Valparaiso | Runner-up
Wooster | Fourth Place

School  | Outcome
Eckerd | Fifth Place*
Fayetteville State | Third Place
Loyola (MD) | Fourth Place
Old Dominion | Runner-up
Roanoke | Regional Champion
St. Thomas | Fifth Place*

School  | Outcome
Brockport State | Regional Champion
C. W. Post | Third Place
Hartwick | Runner-up
New Jersey City | Fifth Place*
Potsdam State | Fourth Place
RPI | Fifth Place*

School  | Outcome
Cal State Bakersfield | Runner-up
Puget Sound | Fourth Place
San Diego | Third Place
Sonoma State | Fifth Place
UC Riverside | Regional Champion

*denotes tie

## Regionals[edit]

### Midwest - Springfield, Missouri[edit]

Location: McDonald Hall and Arena Host: Southwest Missouri State University

| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 9 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 10 |

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| Coe | 65 | |
| Southern Colorado | 63 |
| | Coe | 107 |
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| | | South Dakota State | 104 |
| South Dakota State | 85 |

| SW Missouri State | 74 |

* Third Place - SW Missouri State 76, Southern Colorado 62

### New England - Worcester, Massachusetts[edit]

Location: Andrew Laska Gymnasium Host: Assumption College

| First round - Hartford, CT
Round of 42
March 6 |

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| St. Michael's | 108 |
| Hartford | 97 |
| First round - Bridgeport, CT
Round of 42
March 6 |

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| Bridgeport | 77 |
| Stonehill | 74 |
| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 9 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 10 |

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| Assumption | 81 | |
| St. Michael's | 79 |
| | Assumption | 87 |
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| | | Bentley | 85 |
| Bridgeport | 106 |

| Bentley | 109*** |

* Third Place - Bridgeport 93, St. Michael's 75

### Mideast - Reading, Pennsylvania[edit]

Location: Bollman Center Host: Albright College

| First round - Chester, PA
Round of 42
March 6 |

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| Cheyney | 74 |
| Lebanon Valley | 56 |
| First round - Akron, OH
Round of 42
March 6 |

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| Steubenville | 54 |
| Hiram | 51 |
| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 9 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 10 |

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| Akron | 99 | |
| Cheyney | 71 |
| | Akron | 49 |
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| | | Steubenville | 47 |
| Steubenville | 61 |

| Philadelphia Textile | 51 |

* Third Place - Cheyney 70, Philadelphia Textile 63

### South - Hammond, Louisiana[edit]

Location: unknown Host: Southeastern Louisiana University

| First round - Lexington, KY
Round of 42
March 6 | | | Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 9 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 10 |

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| | | | Tennessee State | 53 | |
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| | | Transylvania | 45 |
| Transylvania | 72* |

| Albany State | 71 |
| | Tennessee State | 62* |
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| | | SE Louisiana | 54 |
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| | SE Louisiana | 67 |
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| | | Chattanooga | 64 |

* Third Place - Chattanooga 99, Transylvania 86

### Great Lakes - Evansville, Indiana[edit]

Location: Roberts Municipal Stadium Host: University of Evansville

| Regional semifinals
Round of 32 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16 |

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| Kentucky Wesleyan | 93 | |
| Wooster | 56 |
| | Kentucky Wesleyan | 74 |
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| | | Valparaiso | 66 |
| Valparaiso | 69 |

| Capital | 64 |

* Third Place - Capital 75, Wooster 47

### South Atlantic - Salem, Virginia[edit]

Location: C. Homer Bast Center Host: Roanoke College

| First round - Fayetteville, NC
Round of 42
March 6 |

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| Fayetteville State | 95 |
| Eckerd | 66 |
| First round - Miami, FL
Round of 42
March 6 |

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| Loyola (MD) | 82* |
| St. Thomas | 79 |
| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| Old Dominion | 80 | |
| Fayetteville State | 74 |
| | Old Dominion | 87 |
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| | | Roanoke | 88* |
| Loyola | 63 |

| Roanoke | 84 |

* Third Place - Fayetteville State 81, Loyola 66

### East - Oneonta, New York[edit]

Location: Binder Physical Education Center Host: Hartwick College

| First round - sites unknown
Round of 42
March 6 | | | Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 9 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 10 |

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| | | | C. W. Post | 77 | |
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| | | Brockport State | 93 |
| Brockport State | 78 |

| New Jersey City | 68 |
| | Brockport State | 70 |
|  |
| | | Hartwick | 62 |
| Potsdam State | 54 | |

| RPI | 52 |
| | Postsdam State | 58 |
|  |
| | | Hartwick | 75 |

* Third Place - C. W. Post 79, Potsdam State 75

### West - Bakersfield, California[edit]

Location: unknown Host: California State College, Bakersfield

| First round - Riverside, CA
Round of 42
March 6 | | | Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 9 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 10 |

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| | | | Puget Sound | 51 | |
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| | | UC Riverside | 71 |
| UC Riverside | 70 |

| Sonoma State | 68 |
| | UC Riverside | 61 |
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| | | Cal State Bakersfield | 54 |
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| | Cal State Bakersfield | 50 |
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| | | San Diego | 44 |

* Third Place - San Diego 80, Puget Sound 73

*denotes each overtime played

## National Finals - Evansville, Indiana[edit]

Location: Roberts Municipal Stadium Host: University of Evansville

| National Quarterfinals
Elite Eight
March 14 | | | National semifinals
Final Four
March 15 | | | National Championship
March 16 |

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| Coe | 96 | | |
| Assumption | 102 |
| | Assumption | 76 |
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| | | Tennessee State | 106 |
| Akron | 50 |

| Tennessee State | 54 |
| | Tennessee State | 76 |
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| | | Kentucky Wesleyan | 78* |
| Kentucky Wesleyan | 87 | |

| Roanoke | 63 |
| | Kentucky Wesleyan | 96 |
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| | | Brockport State | 90 |
| Brockport State | 79 |

| UC Riverside | 70 |

* Third Place - Assumption 94, Brockport State 90

*denotes each overtime played

## All-tournament team[edit]

* Mike Boylan (Assumption)
* Ron Gilliam (Brockport State)
* Leonard Robinson (Tennessee State)
* Mike Williams (Kentucky Wesleyan)
* Roger Zornes (Kentucky Wesleyan)

## See also[edit]

* 1973 NCAA University Division basketball tournament
* 1973 NAIA Basketball Tournament

## References[edit]

## Sources[edit]

* 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament Records and Statistics: Division II men's basketball Championship
* 1973 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament jonfmorse.com

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