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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 20, 1979–March 24, 1979 |
| Administrator | Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women |
| Host(s) | North Dakota State University |
| Venue(s) | Fargo, North Dakota |
| Participants | 16 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | South Carolina State (1st title) |
| Runner-up | Dayton |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
The 1979 AIAW National Small College Basketball Championship was the fifth 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 North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota between March 20–24, 1979.
South Carolina State defeated Dayton in the championship game, 73–68, to capture the Lady Bulldogs' 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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Niagara | 56 | ||||||||||||||||||
| San Francisco | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Niagara | 78 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Morris Harvey | 73 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Morris Harvey | 84 | ||||||||||||||||||
| SE Louisiana | 81 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Niagara | 59 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dayton | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dayton | 84 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Air Force | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dayton | 75 | ||||||||||||||||||
| High Point | 65 | ||||||||||||||||||
| High Point | 93 | ||||||||||||||||||
| North Dakota State | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dayton | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 73 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tuskegee | 80 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eastern Washington | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tuskegee | 75 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tougaloo | 57 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tougaloo | 69 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pepperdine | 41 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tuskegee | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 85 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Seton Hall | 74 | Third place final | |||||||||||||||||
| Texas Wesleyan | 58 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Seton Hall | 53 | Niagara | 71 | ||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 91 | Tuskegee | 55 | ||||||||||||||||
| South Carolina State | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Emporia State | 47 | ||||||||||||||||||
See also
References
- ↑ "PRE-NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RECORDS" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
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