1983 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
Teams | 32 | ||||
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Finals site | Worcester, Massachusetts | ||||
Champions | North Central Cardinals (1st title) | ||||
Runner-up | Elizabethtown Blue Jays (2nd title game) | ||||
Third place | Knoxville Bulldogs (1st Final Four) | ||||
Fourth place | Clark Cougars (2nd Final Four) | ||||
Winning coach | Wayne Morgan (1st title) | ||||
MOP | (Elizabethtown) | ||||
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The 1983 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the second annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.[1]
North Central (IL) defeated defending champions Elizabethtown in the championship game, 83–71, to claim the Cardinals' first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The field for the tournament doubled in size from the previous championship in 1982, increasing from 16 to 32 teams.
Bracket[]
Elite Eight[]
Elite Eight | Final Four | National Championship | ||||||||||||
Clark (MA) | 67 | |||||||||||||
New Rochelle | 58 | |||||||||||||
Clark (MA) | 66 | |||||||||||||
Elizabethtown | 80 | |||||||||||||
Elizabethtown | 62 | |||||||||||||
Kean | 57 | |||||||||||||
Elizabethtown | 71 | |||||||||||||
North Central (IL) | 83 | |||||||||||||
North Central (IL) | 100 | |||||||||||||
Minnesota–Morris | 82 | |||||||||||||
North Central (IL) | 84 | Third Place | ||||||||||||
Knoxville | 74 | |||||||||||||
Knoxville | 70 | Clark (MA) | 80 | |||||||||||
Wisconsin–La Crosse | Knoxville | 82 |
All-tournament team[]
- Page Lutz, Elizabethtown (MOP)
- Kim Wallner, North Central (IL)
- Brenda Sanders, North Central (IL)
- Judy Hodge, Clark (MA)
- Jackie Moore, Knoxville
See also[]
- NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship
- 1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
- 1983 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
- 1983 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
- NAIA Women's Basketball Championships
References[]
- ^ "Division III Women's Basketball Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
Categories:
- 1982–83 in American women's college basketball
- NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
- 1983 in sports in Massachusetts