1982 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
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| Teams | 16 | ||||
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| Finals site |  Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania | ||||
| Champions | Elizabethtown Blue Jays (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | UNC Greensboro Spartans (1st title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists |
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| Winning coach | (1st title) | ||||
| MOP | (Elizabethtown) | ||||
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The 1982 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the inaugural tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.[1]
Elizabethtown defeated UNC Greensboro in the championship game, 67–66 in overtime, to claim the Blue Jays' first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
Bracket[]
Final Four[]
| Final Four | National Championship | |||||||
| Elizabethtown | 71 | |||||||
| Clark | 51 | |||||||
| Elizabethtown | 67* | |||||||
| UNC Greensboro | 66 | |||||||
| UNC Greensboro | 77 | |||||||
| Pomona-Pitzer | 66 | Third Place | ||||||
| Clark | 71 | |||||||
| Pomona-Pitzer | 72* | |||||||
All-tournament team[]
- Bev Hall, Elizabethtown (MOP)
- Page Lutz, Elizabethtown
- Carol Peschel, UNC Greensboro
- Carol Ferrin, Pomona-Pitzer
- Sherry Sydney, UNC Greensboro
See also[]
- 1982 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
- 1982 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
- 1982 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship
- 1982 NAIA Women's Basketball Tournament
- 1982 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
References[]
- ^ "Division III Women's Basketball Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
Categories:
- 1981–82 in American women's college basketball
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