1974 NCAA Division II basketball tournament

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1974 NCAA Division II
basketball tournamentTeams| 44

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Finals site| Evansville, Indiana
Champions| Morgan State Bears (1st title)
Runner-up| SW Missouri State Bears (4th title game)
Semifinalists|

* Assumption Greyhounds (2nd Final Four)
* New Orleans Privateers (1st Final Four)

Winning coach| Nat Frazier (1st title)
MOP| Marvin Webster (Morgan State)
Attendance| 14,207
| NCAA Division II men's tournaments

«1973 | 1975»

The 1974 NCAA Division II basketball tournament involved 44 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 1973–74 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by Morgan State University and Morgan State's Marvin Webster was the Most Outstanding Player.

This was the first tournament to be officially designated as a Division II basketball championship. The NCAA first split into competitive divisions for the 1956–57 school year, creating the top-level University Division and second-tier College Division. Effective with the 1973–74 school year, the NCAA adopted the three-division system that exists to this day. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split into Division II and the non-scholarship Division III. Since the Division III basketball tournament would not be played until 1975, the 1974 Division II tournament included Division III teams despite the name.

Albany

Grand Forks

St. Cloud

Springfield

Rensselaer

Winter Park

Reading

Hiram

Chester

Waltham

Nashville

Canton

Norfolk

Evansville

San Luis Obispo

Springfield

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1974 NCAA Division II Men's sites - first round (white) regionals (cyan) Elite Eight (red)

## Regional participants

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School  | Outcome
Miles | Fifth Place*
Norfolk State | Regional Champion
Old Dominion | Runner-up
Randolph–Macon | Fifth Place*
Roanoke | Third Place
Rollins | Fourth Place

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

School  | Outcome
Hartwick | Runner-up
Morgan State | Regional Champion
New Jersey City | Fifth Place*
Potsdam State | Fourth Place
Siena | Third Place
St. Lawrence | Fifth Place*

School  | Outcome
Albright | Runner-up
Bloomsburg | Regional Champion
Hiram | Fourth Place
Johns Hopkins | Fifth Place*
King's (PA) | Third Place
Ohio Northern | Fifth Place*

School  | Outcome
Chicago | Fifth Place*
Coe | Fifth Place*
Evansville | Third Place
Wisconsin–Green Bay | Fourth Place
St. Joseph's (IN) | Regional Champion
Wittenberg | Runner-up

School  | Outcome
Kentucky Wesleyan | Runner-up
Monmouth (IL) | Fifth Place*
North Dakota | Third Place
North Dakota State | Fifth Place*
St. Cloud State | Fourth Place
SW Missouri State | Regional Champion

School  | Outcome
Fisk | Runner-up
Madison | Fifth Place
New Orleans | Regional Champion
Southern | Fourth Place
Tennessee State | Third Place

School  | Outcome
Cal Poly | Third Place
Chico State | Fourth Place
San Diego | Fifth Place
Sonoma State | Runner-up
UC Riverside | Regional Champion

*denotes tie

## Regionals

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### South Atlantic – Norfolk, Virginia

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Location: Norfolk Scope Host: Old Dominion University

| First round – Norfolk, VA
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| Norfolk State | 74 |
| Randolph-Macon | 72 |
| First round – Winter Park, FL
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| Rollins | 76 |
| Miles | 67 |
| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| Roanoke | 75 | |
| Norfolk State | 84 |
| | Norfolk State | 89 |
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| | | Old Dominion | 76 |
| Rollins | 77 |

| Old Dominion | 80 |

* Third Place – Roanoke 88, Rollins 77

### New England – Waltham, Massachusetts

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Location: Dana Center Host: Bentley College

| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| Hartford | 102 | |
| St. Michael's | 93 |
| | Hartford | 68 |
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| | | Assumption | 84 |
| Assumption | 85 |

| Bentley | 83 |

* Third Place – St. Michael's 95, Bentley 91

### East – Canton, New York

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Location: Burkman Gymnasium Host: Saint Lawrence University

| First round – Canton, NY
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| Potsdam State | 65 |
| St. Lawrence | 49 |
| First round – Albany, NY
Round of 44
March 4 |

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|  |  |  |
| Siena | 87 |
| New Jersey City | 64 |
| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| Morgan State | 54 | |
| Potsdam State | 43 |
| | Morgan State | 68 |
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| | | Hartwick | 64 |
| Siena | 72 |

| Hartwick | 81 |

* Third Place – Siena 82, Potsdam State 74

### Mideast – Reading, Pennsylvania

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Location: Bollman Center Host: Albright College

| First round – Chester, PA
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| Bloomsburg | 78 |
| Johns Hopkins | 63 |
| First round – Hiram, OH
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| Hiram | 56 |
| Ohio Northern | 50 |
| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| King's (PA) | 65 | |
| Bloomsburg | 66 |
| | Bloomsburg | 92 |
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| | | Albright | 78 |
| Hiram | 79 |

| Albright | 93 |

* Third Place – King's 111, Hiram 81

### Great Lakes – Evansville, Indiana

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Location: Roberts Municipal Stadium Host: University of Evansville

| First round – Rensselaer, IN
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| St. Joseph's (IN) | 91 |
| Coe | 76 |
| First round – Springfield, OH
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| Wittenberg | 82 |
| Chicago | 58 |
| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| UW–Green Bay | 54 | |
| St. Joseph's | 70 |
| | St. Joseph's | 75 |
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| | | Wittenberg | 60 |
| Wittenberg | 59* |

| Evansville | 55 |

* Third Place – Evansville 87, Wisconsin–Green Bay 75

### Midwest – Springfield, Missouri

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Location: Hammons Center Host: Southwest Missouri State University

| First round – St. Cloud, MN
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| St. Cloud State | 77 |
| North Dakota State | 62 |
| First round – Grand Forks, ND
Round of 44
March 5 |

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| North Dakota | 73 |
| Monmouth (IL) | 67 |
| Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| Kentucky Wesleyan | 74 | |
| St. Cloud State | 72 |
| | Kentucky Wesleyan | 66 |
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| | | SW Missouri State | 69 |
| North Dakota | 63 |

| SW Missouri State | 71 |

* Third Place – North Dakota 75, St. Cloud State 71

### South – Nashville, Tennessee

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Location: unknown Host: Tennessee State University

| First round
Round of 44
March 5 | | | Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| | | | Tennessee State | 54 | |
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| | | Fisk | 65 |
| Fisk | 59 |

| Madison | 54 |
| | Fisk | 63 |
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| | | New Orleans | 78 |
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| | New Orleans | 85 |
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| | | Southern | 80 |

* Third Place – Tennessee State 98, Southern 88

### West – San Luis Obispo, California

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Location: Mott Gym Host: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

| First round
Round of 44
March 5 | | | Regional semifinals
Round of 32
March 8 | | | Regional Final
Sweet 16
March 9 |

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| | | | Cal Poly | 66 | |
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| | | Sonoma State | 73 |
| Sonoma State | 60 |

| San Diego | 54 |
| | Sonoma State | 56 |
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| | | UC Riverside | 71 |
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| | UC Riverside | 62 |
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| | | Chico State | 51 |

* Third Place – Cal Poly 81, Chico State 63

*denotes each overtime played

## National Finals – Evansville, Indiana

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Location: Roberts Municipal Stadium Host: University of Evansville

| National Quarterfinals
Elite Eight
March 13 | | | National semifinals
Final Four
March 14 | | | National Championship
March 15 |

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| Norfolk State | 79 | | |
| Assumption | 89 |
| | Assumption | 70 |
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| | | Morgan State | 73 |
| Morgan State | 71 |

| Bloomsburg | 57 |
| | Morgan State | 67 |
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| | | SW Missouri State | 52 |
| St. Joseph's (IN) | 78 | |

| SW Missouri State | 80 |
| | SW Missouri State | 68 |
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| | | New Orleans | 63 |
| New Orleans | 83 |

| UC Riverside | 78 |

* Third Place – Assumption 115, New Orleans 103

*denotes each overtime played

## All-tournament team

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* William Doolittle (Southwest Missouri State)
* John Grochowski (Assumption)
* Randy Magers (Southwest Missouri State)
* Alvin O'Neal (Morgan State)
* Marvin Webster (Morgan State)

## See also

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* 1974 NCAA Division I basketball tournament
* 1974 NAIA Basketball Tournament

## References

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## Sources

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* 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament Records and Statistics: Division II men's basketball Championship
* 1974 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament jonfmorse.com

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