1957 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament

1957 NCAA Men's Division II
Basketball Tournament
Teams 32
Finals Site Evansville, Indiana
Champions Wheaton (IL) (1st title)
Runner-Up Kentucky Wesleyan (1st title game)
Semifinalists Mount St. Mary's (1st Final Four)
Cal State Los Angeles (1st Final Four)
Winning Coach Lee Pfund (Wheaton (1st title))
Most Outstanding Player Mel Peterson Wheaton
Attendance 13,000
NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournaments
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The 1957 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 1956-57 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. This was the first Division II men's basketball tournament and it was won by Wheaton College.

Contents

Bracket

  First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship
                                               
 St. Michael's 80  
 Amherst 63  
   St. Michael's 68  
   Rider 69  
 Rider 63
 Drexel 61  
   Rider 66  
   Mount St. Mary's 86  
 Mount St. Mary's 93  
 CCNY 84  
   Mount St. Mary's 106
   North Carolina Central 88  
 North Carolina Central 78
 Florida A&M 61  
   Wheaton 71  
   Cal State Los Angeles 53  
 Buffalo 75  
 Capital 64  
   Buffalo 77
   Evansville 75  
 Evansville 108
 Illinois State 96  
   Buffalo 68
   Kentucky Wesleyan 72  
 Kentucky Wesleyan 77  
 DePauw 62  
   Kentucky Wesleyan 84
   East Tennessee State 73  
 East Tennessee State 62*
 Centenary (LA) 61  
 Kentucky Wesleyan 65
 Wheaton 89
 South Dakota 62  
 Monmouth (IL) 52  
   South Dakota 2  
   Jackson State 0†  
 Jackson State 93
 Philander Smith 65  
   South Dakota 80  
   Wheaton 90  
 Wheaton (IL) 84  
 Minnesota-Duluth 75  
   Wheaton 77
   Beloit 75  
 Beloit 103
 Wisconsin–Superior 79  
   Mount St. Mary's 81
   Kentucky Wesleyan 99  
 Regis (CO) 88  
 Wartburg 82  
   Regis 78
   San Diego State 81  
 San Diego State 75
 Chapman 56  
   San Diego State 55
   Cal State Los Angeles 57  
 Cal State Los Angeles 75  
 Nevada 69  
   Cal State Los Angeles 85
   Linfield 74  
 Linfield 83*
 Pacific (OR) 79  

*denotes each overtime played
† denotes forfeited game

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