Mar 16, 2024
Division III men's basketball championships have been held since 1975, and all the results are right here.
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| Year | Champion | Score | Runner-up | Att. | Other semifinalists | |
| Games played at Albright; Reading, Pennsylvania (30-team playoffs start) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | LeMoyne-Owen | 57-54 | Glassboro State | 1,800 | Augustana, Brockport | |
| 1976 | Scranton | 60-57 (OT) | Wittenberg | 4,000 | Augustana, Plattsburgh State | |
| Games played at Augustana; Rock Island, Illinois | ||||||
| 1977 | Wittenberg | 79-66 | Oneonta | 2,100 | Scranton, Hamline | |
| 1978 | North Park | 69-57 | Widener | 2,800 | Albion, Stony Brook | |
| Games played at Augustana; Rock Island, Illinois (32-team bracket) | ||||||
| 1979 | North Park | 66-62 | Potsdam State | 3,500 | Franklin & Marshall, Centre | |
| 1980 | North Park | 83-76 | Upsala | 3,500 | Wittenberg, Longwood | |
| 1981 | Potsdam State | 67-65 (OT) | Augustana | 4,237 | Ursinus, Otterbein | |
| Games played at Calvin; Grand Rapids, Michigan | ||||||
| 1982 | Wabash | 83-62 | Potsdam State | 3,500 | Brooklyn, Cal State-Stanislaus | |
| 1983 | Scranton | 64-63 | Wittenberg | 3,700 | Roanoke, UW-Whitewater | |
| 1984 | UW-Whitewater | 103-86 | Clark | 3,200 | DePauw, Upsala | |
| 1985 | North Park | 72-71 | Potsdam State | 2,816 | Nebraska Wesleyan, Widener | |
| 1986 | Potsdam State | 76-73 | LeMoyne-Owen | -- | Nebraska Wesleyan, Jersey City State | |
| 1987 | North Park | 106-100 | Clark | 2,100 | Wittenberg, Stockton State | |
| 1988 | Ohio Wesleyan | 92-70 | Scranton | 2,500 | Nebraska Wesleyan, Hartwick | |
| Games played at Wittenberg; Springfield, Ohio (40-team bracket) | ||||||
| 1989 | UW-Whitewater | 94-86 | Trenton State | 2,882 | Southern Maine, Centre | |
| 1990 | Rochester | 43-42 | DePauw | 3,000 | Washington College, Calvin | |
| 1991 | UW-Platteville | 81-74 | Franklin & Marshall | 2,379 | Otterbein, Ramapo | |
| 1992 | Calvin | 62-49 | Rochester | 2,941 | UW-Platteville, Jersey City State | |
| Games played at Buffalo, New York | ||||||
| 1993 | Ohio Northern | 71-68 | Augustana | 2,120 | Rowan, Mass-Dartmouth | |
| 1994 | Lebanon Valley | 66-59 (OT) | New York University | 2,419 | Wittenberg, St. Thomas | |
| Games played at Buffalo, New York (64-team bracket*) | ||||||
| 1995 | UW-Platteville | 69-55 | Manchester | 3,000 | Rowan, Trinity (Conn.) | |
| Games played at Salem, Virginia (64-team bracket*) | ||||||
| 1996 | Rowan | 100-83 | Hope | 3,000 | Illinois Wesleyan, Franklin & Marshall | |
| 1997 | Illinois Wesleyan | 89-86 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 3,013 | Williams, Alvernia | |
| Games played at Salem, Virginia | Teams | |||||
| 1998 | UW-Platteville | 68-59 | Hope | 3,915 | Williams, Wilkes | 48 |
| 1999 | UW-Platteville | 76-75 (2 OT) | Hampden-Sydney | 4,461 | Connecticut College, William Paterson | 48 |
| 2000 | Calvin | 79-74 | UW-Eau Claire | 3,261 | Salem State, Franklin & Marshall | 48 |
| 2001 | Catholic | 76-62 | William Paterson | 3,317 | Illinois Wesleyan, Ohio Northern | 48 |
| 2002 | Otterbein | 102-83 | Elizabethtown | 2,852 | Carthage, Rochester | 48 |
| 2003 | Williams | 67-65 | Gustavus Adolphus | 3,867 | Wooster, Hampden-Sydney | 48 |
| 2004 | UW-Stevens Point | 84-82 | Williams | 2,374 | John Carroll, Amherst | 48 |
| 2005 | UW-Stevens Point | 73-49 | Rochester | 2,877 | Calvin, York (Pa.) | 48 |
| 2006 | Virginia Wesleyan | 59-56 | Wittenberg | 3,435 | Illinois Wesleyan, Amherst | 59 |
| 2007 | Amherst | 80-67 | Virginia Wesleyan | 3,075 | Washington U., Wooster | 59 |
| 2008 | Washington U. | 90-68 | Amherst | 2,607 | Hope, Ursinus | 59 |
| 2009 | Washington U. | 61-52 | Richard Stockton | 2,263 | Guilford, Franklin & Marshall | 60 |
| 2010 | UW-Stevens Point | 78-73 | Williams | 2,835 | Guilford and Randolph-Macon | 61 |
| 2011 | St. Thomas | 78-54 | Wooster | 2,838 | Middlebury and Williams | 61 |
| 2012 | UW-Whitewater | 63-60 | Cabrini | 2,587 | Illinois Wesleyan and MIT | 62 |
| 2013 quarterfinals and semifinals at Salem, Va.; Championship at Atlanta | ||||||
| 2013 | Amherst | 87-70 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 3,541 | St. Thomas and North Central | 62 |
| 2014 | UW-Whitewater | 75-73 | Williams | 2,681 | Amherst and Illinois Wesleyan | 62 |
| 2015 | UW-Stevens Point | 70-54 | Augustana | 3,185 | Babson and Virginia Wesleyan | 62 |
| 2016 | St. Thomas | 82-76 | Benedictine | 2,708 | Amherst and Christopher Newport | 63 |
| 2017 | Babson | 79-78 | Augustana | 2,257 | Whitman and Williams | 64 |
| 2018 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 78-72 | UW-Oshkosh | 1,523 | Ramapo and Springfield | 64 |
| Games played at Fort Wayne, Indiana | ||||||
| 2019 | UW-Oshkosh | 96-82 | Swarthmore | 1,710 | Christopher Newport and Wheaton (Ill.) | 64 |
| 2020 | None | Canceled because of COVID-19 | 64 | |||
| 2021 | None | Canceled because of COVID-19 | 48 | |||
| 2022 | Randolph-Macon | 75-45 | Elmhurst | 3,912 | Wabash and Marietta | 64 |
| 2023 | Christopher Newport | 74-72 | Mount Union | 1,268 | Swarthmore and UW-Whitewater | 64 |
| 2024 | Trine | 69-61 | Hampden-Sydney | 4,546 | Trinity (Conn.) and Guilford | 64 |
Click here for our story on the championship sites for 2018 through 2022, and for 2023 through 2026. |
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* The NCAA termed these tournaments 64-team play-ins to an official tournament field of 32.
In 2010, the national third-place game was eliminated. For years from 1975 to 2009, the other semifinalists are listed in order of result in the third-place game.
Glassboro State is now known as Rowan; Jersey City State now known as New Jersey City; Stockton State/Richard Stockton now known as Stockton; Trenton State now known as TCNJ