2012_NCAA_Division_III_men's_basketball_tournament

2012 NCAA Division III
men's basketball tournament
Teams	62
Finals site	Salem, Virginia
Champions	Whitewater State Warhawks (3rd title)
Runner-up	Cabrini Cavaliers (1st title game)
Semifinalists	MIT Engineers (1st Final Four); Illinois Wesleyan Titans (5th Final Four);
Winning coach	Pat Miller (1st title)
MOP	Chris Davis (UW-Whitewater)
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2012 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament

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The 2012 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. It involved 62 teams, beginning on March 1, 2012 and concluded with the championship game on March 17, 2012, at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.

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The UW-Whitewater Warhawks won their third Division III title, defeating the Cabrini Cavaliers in the championship game by a score of 63-60.^[1]

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Conference	School	Appearance	Last Bid
Allegheny Mountain	Medaille	3rd	2010
American Southwest	McMurry	4th	2011
Capital	York (Pa.)	3rd	2006
Centennial	Franklin and Marshall	23rd	2011
CUNYAC	Staten Island	10th	2002
CCIW	North Central (Ill.)	6th	2006
Colonial States	Cabrini	10th	2011
Commonwealth Coast	Endicott	5th	2006
Empire 8	Ithaca	9th	2011
Great Northeast	Albertus Magnus	2nd	2010
Heartland	Rose-Hulman	9th	1999
Iowa	Buena Vista	9th	2008
Landmark	Scranton	24th	2011
Liberty	Skidmore	2nd	2011
Little East	Eastern Connecticut	4th	2000
MASCAC	Salem State	23rd	2009
Michigan	Hope	23rd	2011
MAC-Commonwealth	Messiah	3rd	2007
MAC-Freedom	Misericordia	1st	Never
Midwest	Carroll	2nd	2006
Minnesota	St. Thomas	13th	2011
New England	Becker	2nd	2011
NESCAC	Amherst	14th	2011
NEWMAC	MIT	4th	2011
New Jersey	William Paterson	15th	2010
North Atlantic	Castleton State	2nd	2004
North Coast	Wooster	21st	2011
North Eastern	Morrisville State	1st	Never
Northern	Edgewood	3rd	2005
Northwest	Whitworth	7th	2011
Ohio	Capital	9th	2009
Old Dominion	Virginia Wesleyan	12th	2011
Presidents'	Bethany	8th	2011
Skyline	Farmingdale State	4th	2009
SCIAC	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	11th	2010
SCAC	Trinity (Texas)	6th	2008
SLIAC	Westminster (Mo.)	3rd	2010
SUNYAC	Oswego State	2nd	2011
UAA	Washington U.	16th	2010
Upper Midwest	Northwestern (Minn.)	2nd	2011
USA South	Christopher Newport	18th	2010
Wisconsin	UW-River Falls	2nd	2011

Conference	School	Appearance	Last Bid	Pool
Great South	Maryville (Tenn.)	15th	2010	Pool B
SCAC	Birmingham-Southern	1st	Never	Pool C
Minnesota	Gustavus Adolphus	13th	2005	Pool C
Empire 8	Hartwick	6th	2011	Pool C
Liberty	Hobart	2nd	2001	Pool C
CCIW	Illinois Wesleyan	21st	2011	Pool C
American Southwest	Mary Hardin-Baylor	5th	2011	Pool C
NESCAC	Middlebury	5th	2011	Pool C
UAA	NYU	26th	2006	Pool C
North Coast	Ohio Wesleyan	3rd	2008	Pool C
Old Dominion	Randolph-Macon	12th	2011	Pool C
Little East	Rhode Island College	9th	2011	Pool C
Skyline	St. Joseph's-Long Island	2nd	2009	Pool C
Capital	St. Mary's (Md.)	4th	2011	Pool C
Heartland	Transylvania	8th	2009	Pool C
Wisconsin	UW-Stevens Point	11th	2011	Pool C
Wisconsin	UW-Whitewater	17th	2011	Pool C
Little East	Western Connecticut	12th	2011	Pool C
CCIW	Wheaton (Ill.)	8th	2010	Pool C
North Coast	Wittenberg	26th	2011	Pool C

First round March 1/March 2		Second round March 3		Sectional Semifinals March 9		Sectional Finals March 10

		Virginia Wesleyan	70
St. Mary's City, MD / Virginia Beach, VA
		St. Mary's (Md.)	57
St. Mary's (Md.)	69

Bethany	57
				Virginia Wesleyan	74*

				Whitworth	71
Mary Hardin-Baylor	66

Trinity (Texas)	68
		Trinity (Texas)	53
Belton, TX
		Whitworth	64
Whitworth	90

McMurry	79
						Virginia Wesleyan	62

						UW-Whitewater	76
UW-River Falls	67

Edgewood	75
		Edgewood	62
River Falls, WI
		Wheaton (Ill.)	73
Wheaton (Ill.)	68

Gustavus Adolphus	60
				Wheaton (Ill.)	56

				UW-Whitewater	67
UW-Whitewater	83

Northwestern (Minn.)	68
		UW-Whitewater	91
Whitewater, WI
		St. Thomas	62
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	74

St. Thomas	76*

2012 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament

Semifinals March 16		national championship March 17

Cabrini	81

Illinois Wesleyan	78
		Cabrini	60

		UW-Whitewater	63
MIT	56

UW-Whitewater	71

Conference	# of Bids	Record	Win %	R62	R32	S16	E8	F4	CG	NC
Wisconsin	3	6-2	.750	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
CSAC	1	5–1	.833	1	1	1	1	1	1	–
CCIW	3	8–3	.727	3	3	3	1	1	–	–
NEWMAC	1	4–1	.800	1	1	1	1	1	–	–
North Coast	3	5–3	.625	3	2	2	1	–	–	–
Centennial	1	3–1	.750	1	1	1	1	–	–	–
Landmark	1	3–1	.750	1	1	1	1	–	–	–
ODAC	2	2–2	.500	1	1	1	1	–	–	–
NESCAC	2	3–2	.600	2	2	2	–	–	–	–
Little East	3	4–3	.571	3	3	1	–	–	–	–
CUNYAC	1	2–1	.667	1	1	1	–	–	–	–
Northwest	1	2–1	.667	1	1	1	–	–	–	–
UAA	2	2–2	.500	2	2	–	–	–	–	–
Capital	2	1–2	.333	2	1	–	–	–	–	–
Liberty League	2	1–2	.333	2	1	–	–	–	–	–
Michigan	2	1–2	.333	2	1	–	–	–	–	–
SCAC	2	1–2	.333	2	1	–	–	–	–	–
Skyline	2	1–2	.333	2	1	–	–	–	–	–
Great Northeast	1	1–1	.500	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
Michigan	1	1–1	.500	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
Midwest	1	1–1	.500	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
New England	1	1–1	.500	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
Northern	1	1–1	.500	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
Ohio	1	1–1	.500	1	1	–	–	–	–	–
SUNYAC	1	1–1	.500	1	1	–	–	–	–	–