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)
NCAA Division III men's tournaments «2011 2013»

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.

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

Tournament schedule and venues

Middlebury

Wooster

Lancaster

Amherst

Salem

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2012 Sectionals(blue) and Final Four (red)

The following are the sites selected to host each round of the 2012 tournament:

First and second rounds

• Coles Center, New York, NY (Host: New York University)
• O'Brien Center, St. Mary's City, MD (Host: St. Mary's College of Maryland)
• Washington University Field House, St. Louis, MO (Host: Washington University in St. Louis)
• Beck Center, Lexington, Kentucky (Host: Transylvania University)
• DeVos Fieldhouse, Holland, MI (Host: Hope College)
• Timken Gymnasium, Wooster, OH (Host: The College of Wooster)
• Dixon Center, Radnor, PA (Host: Cabrini College)
• Max Ziel Gymnasium, Oswego, NY (Host: State University of New York at Oswego)
• Recreation Center, Wayne, NJ (Host: William Paterson University)
• Pepin Gymnasium, Middlebury, VT (Host: Middlebury College)
• Binder Physical Education Center, Oneonta, NY (Host: Hartwick College)
• Sports and Recreation Center, Staten Island, NY (Host: College of Staten Island)
• Mayser Center, Lancaster, PA (Host: Franklin & Marshall College)
• Karges Center, River Falls, WI (Host: UW-River Falls)
• Williams Center, Whitewater, WI (Host: UW-Whitewater)
• Mayborn Campus Center, Belton, TX (Host: University of Mary Hardin-Baylor)
• LeFrak Gymnasium, Amherst, MA (Host: Amherst College)
• Batten Student Center, Virginia Beach, VA (Host: Virginia Wesleyan College)

Sectional sites

• Pepin Gymnasium, Middlebury, VT (Host: Middlebury College)
• Timken Gymnasium, Wooster, OH (Host: The College of Wooster)
• Mayser Center, Lancaster, PA (Host: Franklin & Marshall College)
• LeFrak Gymnasium, Amherst, MA (Host: Amherst College)

Final Four - Salem

• Salem Civic Center (Host: Old Dominion Athletic Conference)

Qualified teams

Further information: 2012 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament qualifying teams

Automatic qualifiers

The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2013 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).

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

At-large qualifiers

The NCAA Selection Committee, by rule, must select one team from the conferences without automatic berths and non-affiliated schools (Pool B). The Selection Committee makes the remaining 19 selections at-large from all conferences (Pool C).

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

Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period

Unless otherwise noted, all times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04)

Middlebury, VT Sectional

First round March 2

Second round March 3

Sectional Semifinals March 9

Sectional Finals March 10

Cabrini

104

Castleton State

87

Cabrini

90*

Radnor, PA

Hobart

88

Hobart

64

Ohio Wesleyan

60

Cabrini

72

E. Connecticut

65

Oswego State

72*

Endicott

71

Oswego State

69

Oswego, NY

E. Connecticut

70**

E. Connecticut

69

Medaille

51

Cabrini

78

Scranton

58

Middlebury

75

Morrisville State

49

Middlebury

89

Middlebury, VT

Albertus Magnus

73

Albertus Magnus

87

St. Joseph's-L.I.

84

Middlebury

55

Scranton

58

William Paterson

53

Becker

69

Becker

41

Wayne, NJ

Scranton

69

Messiah

67

Scranton

70*

Wooster, OH Sectional

	First round March 2				Second round March 3				Sectional Semifinals March 9				Sectional Finals March 10
	Washington U.	71
	Buena Vista	59
					Washington U.	68
	St. Louis, MO
					North Central (Ill.)	72
	North Central (Ill.)	74
	Rose-Hulman	71
									North Central	55
									Wittenberg	58
	Transylvania	74
	Carroll	84
					Carroll	70
	Lexington, KY
					Wittenberg	87
	Wittenberg	63
	Birmingham-Southern	56
													Wittenberg	49
													Illinois Wesleyan	70
	Wooster	70
	Maryville (Tenn.)	63
					Wooster	92
	Wooster, OH
					Capital	79
	Randolph-Macon	60
	Capital	68
									Wooster	67
									Illinois Wesleyan	69
	Hope	79
	Westminster (Mo.)	65
					Hope	101
	Holland, MI
					Illinois Wesleyan	108**
	UW-Stevens Point	61
	Illinois Wesleyan	69

Lancaster, PA Sectional

	First round March 1/March 2				Second round March 3				Sectional Semifinals March 9				Sectional Finals March 10
					Amherst	80
	New York, NY / Amherst, MA
					NYU	56
	NYU	84
	Misericordia	65
									Amherst	71
									Franklin & Marshall	80
	Franklin & Marshall	72
	York (Pa.)	50
					Franklin & Marshall	82
	Lancaster, PA
					W. Connecticut	72
	W. Connecticut	94
	Christopher Newport	84
													Franklin & Marshall	54
													MIT	69
	Hartwick	88
	Farmingdale State	98*
					Farmingdale State	63
	Oneonta, NY
					MIT	83
	MIT	62
	Skidmore	55
									MIT	83
									Staten Island	67
	Staten Island	98
	Ithaca	73
					Staten Island	77
	Staten Island, NY
					Rhode Island C.	67
	Rhode Island C.	77
	Salem State	60

Whitewater, WI Sectional

	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*

Final Four - Salem, Virginia

	Semifinals March 16				national championship March 17
	Cabrini	81
	Illinois Wesleyan	78
					Cabrini	60
					UW-Whitewater	63
	MIT	56
	UW-Whitewater	71

Record by conference

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	–	–	–	–	–

• The R62, R32, S16, E8, F4, CG, NC columns indicate how many teams from each conference were in the round of 62 (first round), round of 32 (second round), Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four, championship game, and national champion, respectively.
• The NESCAC and ODAC each had one representative which earned a bye to the second round.
• The AMCC, CCC, IIAC, MASCAC, MAC Commonwealth, MAC Freedom, NJAC, North Atlantic, NEAC, Presidents' Athletic Conference, SCIAC, SLIAC, UMAC, and USA South each had one representative, eliminated in the second round with a record of 0–1.
• The American Southwest, Empire 8, Heartland had two representatives, eliminated in the first round, with a record of 0–2.

See also

• 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
• 2012 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament