1981 AIAW National Division III Basketball Championship
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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women |
| Host(s) | University of Wisconsin–La Crosse |
| Venue(s) | La Crosse, Wisconsin |
| Participants | 16 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Wisconsin–La Crosse (1st title) |
| Runner-up | Mount Mercy |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
The 1981 AIAW National Division III Basketball Championship was the second annual tournament hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women to determine the national champion of collegiate basketball among its Division III members in the United States.[1]
The tournament was held at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin–La Crosse defeated Mount Mercy in the championship game, 79–71, to capture the Roonies' first AIAW Division III national title.
Format
[edit]Sixteen teams participated in a single-elimination tournament, a decrease in eight teams from the previous year's championship.
The tournament also included a third-place game for the two teams that lost in the semifinal games.
Tournament bracket
[edit]| First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | National championship | ||||||||||||||||
| Worcester State | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin–Whitewater | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Worcester State | 67 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elizabethtown | 59 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elizabethtown | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia (SC) | 56 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Worcester State | 61 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mount Mercy | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||
| UC Davis | 67 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Concordia (OR) | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||
| UC Davis | 53 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mount Mercy | 58 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mount Mercy | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spring Arbor | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mount Mercy | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin–La Crosse | 79 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pitt Johnstown | 79 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bethany | 58 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pitt Johnstown | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Knoxville | 47 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Knoxville | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rhode Island College | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pitt Johnstown | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin–La Crosse | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||
| San Francisco State | 56 | Third place final | |||||||||||||||||
| Tarleton State | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||
| San Francisco State | 71 | Worcester State | 82* | ||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin–La Crosse | 78 | Pitt Johnstown | 78 | ||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin–La Crosse | 87 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Roanoke | 77 | ||||||||||||||||||
See also
[edit]- 1981 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship
- 1981 AIAW National Division II Basketball Championship
- 1981 NAIA women's basketball tournament
References
[edit]- ^ "PRE-NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RECORDS" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 25, 2022.