1977 NCAA Division II Basketball Tournament
The 1977 NCAA Division II Basketball Tournament involved 32 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 1976–77 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Chattanooga's Wayne Golden was the Most Outstanding Player.
Teams | 32 |
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Finals site | Springfield, Massachusetts |
Champions | Chattanooga Mocs (1st title) |
Runner-up | Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets (1st title game) |
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Winning coach | Ron Schumate (1st title) |
MOP | Wayne Golden, (Chattanooga) |
Attendance | 70,776 |
Regional participants
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Regionals
South Atlantic - Towson, Maryland
Location: Towson Center
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Baltimore | 116 | ||||||||
Virginia Union | 96 | ||||||||
Baltimore | 87 | ||||||||
Towson | 92* | ||||||||
Towson | 107 | ||||||||
Winston-Salem | 83 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Virginia Union 107, Winston-Salem 93
New England - Fairfield, Connecticut
Location: SHU Gymnasium
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Merrimack | 107 | ||||||||
Bridgeport | 83 | ||||||||
Merrimack | 104 | ||||||||
Sacred Heart | 110 | ||||||||
Sacred Heart | 83 | ||||||||
Assumption | 78 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Assumption 86, Bridgeport 84
South - Chattanooga, Tennessee
Location: Maclellan Gymnasium
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
UCF | 91 | ||||||||
Armstrong Atlantic | 81 | ||||||||
UCF | 79 | ||||||||
Chattanooga | 88 | ||||||||
Chattanooga | 92 | ||||||||
Valdosta State | 76 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Valdosta State 83, Armstrong Atlantic 73
North Central - Green Bay, Wisconsin
Location: Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
North Dakota | 71 | ||||||||
Augustana (SD) | 64 | ||||||||
North Dakota | 45 | ||||||||
Green Bay | 43 | ||||||||
Green Bay | 89 | ||||||||
Nebraska–Omaha | 63 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Nebraska–Omaha 93, Augustana 91
Great Lakes - Youngstown, Ohio
Location: Beeghly Center
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Eastern Illinois | 87 | ||||||||
Bellarmine | 72 | ||||||||
Eastern Illinois | 66 | ||||||||
Randolph–Macon | 69 | ||||||||
Randolph–Macon | 71* | ||||||||
Youngstown State | 69 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Youngstown State 81, Bellarmine 79
East - Erie, Pennsylvania
Location: Hammermill Center
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Cheyney | 62 | ||||||||
Philadelphia Textile | 58 | ||||||||
Cheyney | 88 | ||||||||
Hartwick | 61 | ||||||||
Hartwick | 68 | ||||||||
Gannon | 66 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Gannon 85, Philadelphia Textile 67
South Central - Florence, Alabama
Location: Flowers Hall
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Troy State | 81 | ||||||||
Lincoln (MO) | 65 | ||||||||
Troy State | 70 | ||||||||
North Alabama | 77 | ||||||||
North Alabama | 105 | ||||||||
Southern | 88 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Lincoln 103, Southern 87
West - Tacoma, Washington
Location: Memorial Fieldhouse
Regional Semifinals | Regional Final | ||||||||
Cal Poly | 73 | ||||||||
Seattle Pacific | 58 | ||||||||
Cal Poly | 67 | ||||||||
Puget Sound | 54 | ||||||||
Puget Sound | 85 | ||||||||
Cal State Hayward | 68 | ||||||||
- Third Place - Seattle Pacific 94, Cal State Hayward 74
*denotes each overtime played
National Quarterfinals
Quarterfinal - New Haven, CT | ||||
Towson | 82 | |||
Sacred Heart | 85 | |||
Quarterfinal - Grand Forks, ND | ||||
Chattanooga | 76 | |||
North Dakota | 52 | |||
Quarterfinal - Richmond, VA | ||||
Randolph-Macon | 65 | |||
Cheyney | 63 | |||
Quarterfinal - Florence, AL | ||||
North Alabama | 67* | |||
Cal Poly | 64 | |||
National Finals - Springfield, Massachusetts
Location: Springfield Civic Center
Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
Sacred Heart | 81 | ||||||||
Chattanooga | 95 | ||||||||
Chattanooga | 71 | ||||||||
Randolph-Macon | 62 | ||||||||
Randolph-Macon | 82 | ||||||||
North Alabama | 67 | ||||||||
- Third Place - North Alabama 93, Sacred Heart 77
*denotes each overtime played
All-tournament team
- Joe Allen (Randolph-Macon)
- Otis Boddie (North Alabama)
- Wayne Golden (Tennessee-Chattanooga)
- William Gordon (Tennessee-Chattanooga)
- Hector Olivencia (Sacred Heart)
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