1987 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament
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Teams | 32 | ||||
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Finals site | ![]() | ||||
Champions | Wisconsin–Stevens Point Pointers (1st title) | ||||
Runner-up | Concordia Cobbers (1st title game) | ||||
Third place | Scranton Royals (2nd Final Four) | ||||
Fourth place | Kean Cougars (1st Final Four) | ||||
Winning coach | Linda Wunder (1st title) | ||||
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The 1987 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the sixth annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.[1]
Wisconsin–Stevens Point defeated Concordia Moorhead in the championship game, 81–74, to claim the Pointers' first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Bracket
Elite Eight
Elite Eight | Final Four | National championship | ||||||||||||
Scranton | 50* | |||||||||||||
St. John Fisher | 43 | |||||||||||||
Scranton | 59 | |||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Stevens Point | 74 | |||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Stevens Point | 71 | |||||||||||||
William Penn | 66 | |||||||||||||
Wisconsin–Stevens Point | 81 | |||||||||||||
Concordia Moorhead | 74 | |||||||||||||
Kean | 69 | |||||||||||||
Southern Maine | 56 | |||||||||||||
Kean | 69 | Third place | ||||||||||||
Concordia Moorhead | 74 | |||||||||||||
Concordia Moorhead | 72 | Scranton | 92* | |||||||||||
Rust | 62 | Kean | 90 |
All-tournament team
- Jessica Beachy, Concordia Moorhead
- Una Espenkotter, Scranton
- Wendy Norris, Kean
- Donna Pivonka, Wisconsin–Stevens Point
- Karla Miller, Wisconsin–Stevens Point
See also
- 1987 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
- 1987 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
- 1987 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament
- 1987 NAIA women's basketball tournament
References
- ^ "Division III Women's Basketball Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved 31 March 2021.