1961 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament
The 1961 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA College Division college basketball as a culmination of the 1960-61 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by Wittenberg University and South Dakota State's Don Jacobson was the Most Outstanding Player.
Teams | 32 |
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Finals site | Evansville, Indiana |
Champions | Wittenberg Tigers (1st title) |
Runner-up | Southeast Missouri State Bears (1st title game) |
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Winning coach | Ray Mears (1st title) |
MOP | Don Jacobson, South Dakota State |
Attendance | 13,002 |
Regional participants
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Regionals
South - Clarksville, Tennessee
Location: Memorial Health Building
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Belmont Abbey | 74 | ||||||||
Kentucky Wesleyan | 62 | ||||||||
Belmont Abbey | 63 | ||||||||
Austin Peay | 70 | ||||||||
Austin Peay | 77 | ||||||||
Chattanooga | 69 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Kentucky Wesleyan 111, Chattanooga 80
East - Reading, Pennsylvania
Location: Bollman Center
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Mount St. Mary's | 83 | ||||||||
Virginia Union | 80 | ||||||||
Mount St. Mary's | 82 | ||||||||
Albright | 76 | ||||||||
Albright | 85 | ||||||||
Fairfield | 67 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Virginia Union 70, Fairfield 66
Northeast - Springfield, Massachusetts
Location: Judd Gymnasia
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Williams | 74 | ||||||||
Rochester | 72 | ||||||||
Williams | 75 | ||||||||
Bates | 68 | ||||||||
Bates | 75 | ||||||||
Springfield | 63 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Rochester 82, Springfield 68
Mideast - Crawfordsville, Indiana
Location: Chadwick Court
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Wittenberg | 43 | ||||||||
Youngstown State | 28 | ||||||||
Wittenberg | 48 | ||||||||
Wabash | 42 | ||||||||
Wabash | 94 | ||||||||
South Carolina State | 83 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Youngstown State 96, South Carolina State 82
Great Lakes - Chicago, Illinois
Location: Henry Crown Field House
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Lincoln (MO) | 90 | ||||||||
Evansville | 77 | ||||||||
Lincoln | 42 | ||||||||
Chicago | 55 | ||||||||
Chicago | 64 | ||||||||
MacMurray | 59 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Evansville 98, MacMurray 97*
Southwest - Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Location: Houck Field House
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
SE Missouri State | 99 | ||||||||
Colorado College | 68 | ||||||||
SE Missouri State | 88 | ||||||||
Southern Illinois | 84 | ||||||||
Southern Illinois | 96 | ||||||||
Trinity (TX) | 82 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Trinity 75, Colorado College 58
Midwest - Brookings, South Dakota
Location: The Barn
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Prairie View | 79 | ||||||||
Wisconsin–Superior | 68 | ||||||||
Prairie View | 84 | ||||||||
South Dakota State | 88 | ||||||||
South Dakota State | 90 | ||||||||
Cornell (IA) | 71 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Cornell 83, Wisconsin–Superior 72
Pacific Coast - Santa Barbara, California
Location: Robertson Gymnasium
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Long Beach State | 70 | ||||||||
Chapman | 66 | ||||||||
Long Beach State | 54 | ||||||||
UC Santa Barbara | 58 | ||||||||
UC Santa Barbara | 78 | ||||||||
Nevada | 57 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Chapman 68, Nevada 63
*denotes each overtime played
National Finals - Evansville, Indiana
Location: Roberts Municipal Stadium
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Austin Peay | 78 | |||||||||||||
Mount St. Mary's | 96 | |||||||||||||
Mount St. Mary's | 49 | |||||||||||||
Wittenberg | 65 | |||||||||||||
Williams | 51 | |||||||||||||
Wittenberg | 64 | |||||||||||||
Wittenberg | 42 | |||||||||||||
SE Missouri State | 38 | |||||||||||||
Chicago | 41 | |||||||||||||
SE Missouri State | 67 | |||||||||||||
SE Missouri State | 81 | |||||||||||||
South Dakota State | 69 | |||||||||||||
South Dakota State | 79 | |||||||||||||
UC Santa Barbara | 65 | |||||||||||||
- Third Place - South Dakota State 77, Mount St. Mary's 76
*denotes each overtime played
All-tournament team
- George Fisher (Wittenberg)
- Don Jacobsen (South Dakota State)
- John O'Reilly (Mount Saint Mary's)
- Vivian Reed (Southeast Missouri State)
- Carl Ritter (Southeast Missouri State)
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