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Virginia Wesleyan's Batten Center, host of the 2004 championship weekend. |
Wilmington has a field trip in its future, one to remember the equivalent of a magic carpet ride through the 2003-04 season.
“We might take a trip to Indianapolis to see our championship banner,’’ said Wilmington senior Brittney Morris, who was out with a torn ACL, but whose words at the championship banquet two nights earlier served as inspiration for her teammates. “That might be the closest to Disneyland that we’ll get.’’
Wilmington won its first national title in any sport, topping No. 1-ranked, previously unbeaten Bowdoin, 59-53 in the national championship game. The team finished the season on a nine-game winning streak, coming from the No. 3 seed in the Ohio Athletic Conference to win that league, then won six straight games in the NCAA Tournament. Full story
National Championship
Wilmington 59, Bowdoin 52
at Norfolk, Va. (att. 2,118)
All-Tournament Team
Tara Rausch, Wilmington (Most Outstanding Player)
Amy Kincer, Wilmington
Lora Trinkle, Bowdoin
Erika Smith, Rochester
Kelly Wescott, Rochester
Amanda Nechuta, UW-Stevens Point
Third place
Rochester 64, UW-Stevens Point 63
National semifinals
Wilmington 74, Rochester 63
Bowdoin 64, UW-Stevens Point 59
Sectional finals
Rochester 61, Marymount 57
Wilmington 63, Puget Sound 60
Bowdoin 71, Scranton 58
UW-Stevens Point 72, Hardin-Simmons 67
| First Round March 3 |
Second Round March 6 |
Sectionals at Marymount March 12-13 |
| at 8 Union 78 9 Mount St. Mary 47 |
at 1 NYU 69 8 Union 50 |
1 NYU 68 3 Rochester 77 |
| at 5 Ithaca 60 10 Cortland State 64 |
at 3 Rochester 65 10 Cortland State 50 |
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| at 6 Johns Hopkins 71 12 Alvernia 53 |
at 2 Marymount 73 6 Johns Hopkins 57 |
2 Marymount 68 4 McDaniel 64 |
| at 4 McDaniel 71 11 Pitt-Greensburg 64 |
at 4 McDaniel 70 7 New Jersey 65 |
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| at 7 New Jersey 60 13 Hunter 52 |
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| First Round | Second Round | Sectionals at Thomas More |
| at 8 Wilmington 66 10 Albion 62 |
at 4 Franklin 60 8 Wilmington 75 |
8 Wilmington 78 1 Thomas More 75 |
| at 5 DePauw 88 12 Aurora 44 |
at 1 Thomas More 68 5 DePauw 63 |
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| at 3 Chapman 57 9 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 47 |
7 Puget Sound 61 at 3 Chapman 53 |
7 Puget Sound 70 2 Buena Vista 66 |
| at 6 Carleton 58 11 Lakeland 42 |
at 2 Buena Vista 69 6 Carleton 61 |
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| First Round | Second Round | Sectionals at Bowdoin |
| at 7 Gwynedd-Mercy 66 12 Widener 52 |
at 2 Scranton 60 7 Gwynedd-Mercy 58 |
2 Scranton 68 6 Wittenberg 51 |
| 11 Penn State-Behrend 49 at 6 Wittenberg 81 |
at 3 Messiah 48 6 Wittenberg 51 |
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| at 9 Salve Regina 61 8 Emmanuel 58 |
at 1 Bowdoin 57 9 Salve Regina 44 |
1 Bowdoin 59 4 Southern Maine 55 |
| at 5 Salem State 78 10 Clark 67 |
5 Salem State 57 at 4 Southern Maine 80 |
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| 13 Husson 47 at 4 Southern Maine 73 |
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| First Round | Second Round | Sectionals at UW-Stevens Pt |
| at 8 Ripon 69 9 Wheaton (Ill.) 51 |
at 1 UW-Stevens Point 84 8 Ripon 66 |
1 UW-Stevens Point 83 4 Washington U. 76 |
| at 7 Millikin 69 10 Maryville (Mo.) 53 |
at 4 Washington U. 72 7 Millikin 59 |
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| at 5 Maryville (Tenn.) 101 12 Mary Baldwin 51 |
at 2 Hardin-Simmons 96 5 Maryville (Tenn.) 72 |
2 Hardin-Simmons 91 3 Eastern Mennonite 64 |
| at 6 Bethany 60 11 Christopher Newport 61 |
at 3 Eastern Mennonite 63 11 Christopher Newport 62 |
*D3hoops.com ranked teams in each bracket 1-12 or 1-13 because the NCAA did not release seedings for this year's tournament. Our seedings are unofficial and are meant to give you some idea of the relative strength of each team relative to its bracket. Matchups are not always traditional because of geographical considerations and the possibility of a difference of opinion with the NCAA committee.