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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women |
| Host(s) | Francis Marion College |
| Venue(s) | Florence, South Carolina |
| Participants | 16 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | High Point (1st title) |
| Runner-up | South Carolina State |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
The 1978 AIAW National Small College Basketball Championship was the fourth annual tournament hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women to determine the national champion of collegiate basketball among its small college members in the United States.[1]
The tournament was held at Francis Marion College in Florence, South Carolina.
High Point defeated South Carolina State in the championship game, 92–88, to capture the Panthers' first AIAW small college national title.
Sixteen teams participated in a single-elimination tournament that additionally included a third-place final for the two teams that lost in the semifinal games.
Tournament bracket
| First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | National championship | ||||||||||||||||
| SE Louisiana | 111 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Francis Marion | 90 | ||||||||||||||||||
| SE Louisiana | 98 | ||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 100 | ||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 88 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eastern Washington | 53 | ||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 88 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Biola | 78 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pepperdine | 65 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fordham | 63 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pepperdine | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Biola | 96 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Biola | 87 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shorter | 81 | ||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 88 | ||||||||||||||||||
| High Point | 92 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Berry (GA) | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Seton Hall | 69 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Berry (GA) | 97 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Midland Lutheran | 87 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Midland Lutheran | 87 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dayton | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Berry (GA) | 77 | ||||||||||||||||||
| High Point | 105 | ||||||||||||||||||
| High Point | 104 | Third place final | |||||||||||||||||
| Eastern New Mexico | 85 | ||||||||||||||||||
| High Point | 66 | Biola | 79 | ||||||||||||||||
| William Penn | 65 | Berry (GA) | 99 | ||||||||||||||||
| William Penn | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas–Monticello | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||
See also
References
- ↑ "PRE-NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RECORDS" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
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