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1962 NAIA basketball tournament

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1962 NAIA men's basketball tournament

Season

1961–62

Teams

Finals site

Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri

Champions

Prairie View A&M (Texas) (1st title, 1st title game,
1st Final Four)

Runner-up

Westminster (Pa.) (2nd title game,
3rd Final Four)

Semifinalists

Southeastern Oklahoma (3rd Final Four)

Western Illinois (4th Final Four)

Coach of the year

Buzz Ridl (Westminster (Pa.))

Charles Stevenson
Hustle Award

Bill Douds (Westminster (Pa.))

MVP

Zelmo Beaty (Prairie View A&M (Texas))

NAIA men's basketball tournament
«1961	1963»

The 1962 NAIA men's basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal AuditoriuminKansas City, Missouri. The 25th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.^[1] It would be the last tournament without a formal leading scorer and rebounder awards presented. This was also the first tournament since seeding began to feature the top two teams in the Championship Game. The number 2 seeded Prairie View A&M (Texas) beat Westminster (Pa.) 62 to 53.

Awards and honors[edit]

Many of the records set by the 1962 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later:

Leading scorer: est. 1963
Leading rebounder: est. 1963
Player of the Year: est. 1994
Most rebounds; tournament: 96, Zelmo Beaty, Prairie View A&M (Texas)
Most rebounds; career start: 180, Lucious Jackson, Pan American (Texas), (1962, 1963, 1964)
All-time leading scorer; first appearance: Lucious Jackson 7th, Pan American (Texas) (1962,63,64), 12 games, 117 field goals, 67 free throws, 301 total points, 25.0 average per game.^[2]

1962 NAIA bracket[edit]

First round			Second round			Elite Eight			NAIA national semifinals			NAIA national championship

1	Westminster (Pa.)	59

-	McMurry (Texas)	54
			1	Westminster	82

			16	William Jewell	65
-	Central Connecticut State	52

16	William Jewell (Mo.)	57
						1	Westminster	63
TOP TIER
						9	Orange State	55
9	Orange State (Calif.)	94

-	Stetson (Fla.)	79
			9	Orange State	97

			-	Lewis & Clark	78
-	Lewis & Clark (Ore.)	75

8	Fort Hays State (Kan.)	69
									1	Westminster	54

									13	Southeastern Oklahoma State	45
5	Pan American (Texas)	61

-	Belmont Abbey (N.C.)	58*
			5	Pan American	60

			12	Ferris Institute	66
-	St. Norbert (Wis.)	68

12	Ferris Institute (Mich.)	73
						12	Ferris Institute	49
TOP TIER
						13	Southeastern Oklahoma State	69
13	Southeastern Oklahoma State	83

-	College of Idaho	64
			13	Southeastern Oklahoma State	59

			4	Winston-Salem State	50
-	Indiana State	71

4	Winston-Salem State (N.C.)	83
												1	Westminster	53

												2	Prairie View A&M	62
3	Georgetown (Ky.)	51

-	Carson-Newman (Tenn.)	75
			-	Carson-Newman	67

			14	Peru State	65
-	Mayville State (N.D.)	74

14	Peru State (Neb.)	90
						-	Carson-Newman	65
BOTTOM TIER
						10	Western Illinois	91
-	Florence State (Ala.)	54

10	St. Cloud State (Minn.)	86
			7	St. Cloud State	68

			10	Western Illinois	84
7	Western Illinois	76

-	Pratt Institute (N.Y.)	70
									10	Western Illinois	68

									2	Prairie View A&M	80
-	Pacific Lutheran (Wash.)	75

6	Savannah State (Ga.)	84
			6	Savannah State	91

			-	Arizona State-Flagstaff	95
11	Buena Vista (Iowa)	73

-	Arizona State-Flagstaff	95
						-	Arizona State-Flagstaff	48
BOTTOM TIER
						2	Prairie View A&M	86
15	Morris Harvey (W.Va.)	95

-	Ouachita Baptist (Ark.)	70
			15	Morris Harvey	70

			2	Prairie View A&M	85
-	Ashland (Ohio)	64*

2	Prairie View A&M (Texas)	73

* denotes overtime.

Third-place game[edit]

The third-place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.

NAIA third-place game

13	Southeastern Oklahoma State	76

10	Western Illinois	62

References[edit]

^ "NAIA.org". Archived from the original on May 1, 2009. Retrieved May 16, 2020.

^ NAIA Championship History Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine

NAIA men's basketball championship

Chuck Taylor Tournament MVPs

Non-divisional
(1937–1991,
2021–present)

Divisional era
(1992–2020)

Division I

Division II

The NAIA canceled the 2020 tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic and removed divisional classifications starting in 2020–21.

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