1985 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

1985 (1985) NAIA Men's Division I
Basketball Tournament
Teams 32
Finals Site Kemper Arena
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions Fort Hays State (2 title, 2 title game,
5 Final Four)
Runner-Up Wayland Baptist (TX) (1 title game,
1 Final Four)
Semifinalists Marycrest (IA) (1 Final Four)
Central Washington (4 Final Four)
Chuck Taylor MVP Edgar Eason (Fort Hays State)
Charles Stevenson Hustle Award Gerry Smith (Marycrest (IA))
Attendance unknown
NAIA Men's Division I Tournaments
«1984  1986»

The 1985 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The 48th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format[1].

Contents

Awards and honors

1985 NAIA bracket

  First Round Second Round Elite Eight NAIA National Semifinals NAIA National Championship
                                               
1  Fort Hays State 80  
-  Rocky Mountain (MT) 67  
  1  Fort Hays State 55  
  -  David Lipscomb 48  
-  David Lipscomb 68
16  William Carey (MS) 66  
  1  Fort Hays State 67  
TOP TIER
  -  Athens State 63  
-  Athens State (AL) 64  
9  College of Idaho 59  
  -  Athens State 77
  8  Georgia Southwestern 73  
8  Georgia Southwestern 89
-  Hendrix (AR) 80  
  1  Fort Hays State 65  
  -  Central Washington 64  
-  Minnesota Duluth 43  
5  Biola (CA) 40  
  -  Minnesota Duluth 57
  -  Central Washington 58  
-  Central Washington 82
12  Hawaii-Pacific 79  
  -  Central Washington 64
TOP TIER
  4  West Virginia Wesleyan 63  
13  Rio Grande (OH) 89  
-  Berea (KY) 86  
  13  Rio Grande 68
  4  West Virginia Wesleyan 84  
-  Quincy (IL) 59
4  West Virginia Wesleyan 79  
1  Fort Hays State 82
11  Wayland Baptist 80*
3  Charleston (SC) 68  
-  Castleton State (VT) 52  
  3  Charleston 60  
  14  Southeastern Oklahoma 43  
-  Kearney State 67
14  Southeastern Oklahoma 70  
  11  Wayland Baptist 73  
BOTTOM TIER
  3  Charleston 68  
11  Wayland Baptist (TX) 78  
-  Mesa (CO) 70  
  11  Wayland Baptist 90
  -  Hillsdale 63  
-  Hillsdale (MI) 92
6  St. Thomas Aquinas (NY) 79  
  11  Wayland Baptist 70
  7  Marycrest 69  
-  Cabrini (PA) 70  
7  Marycrest (IA) 71  
  7  Marycrest 83
  -  Pfeiffer 75  
10  Southwestern (TX) 59
-  Pfeiffer (NC) 74  
  7  Marycrest 78
BOTTOM TIER
  -  Drury 68  
15  Waynesburg (PA) 57  
-  Drury (MO) 66  
  -  Drury 58
  2  Wisconsin-Stevens Point 56  
-  IUPUI 61
2  Wisconsin-Stevens Point 71  

3rd place game

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
7  Marycrest 108
-  Central Washington 94

References

See also