2005 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

2005 (2005) NAIA Men's Division I
Basketball Tournament
Teams 32
Finals Site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions John Brown (Ark.) ( title)
Runner-Up Azusa Pacific (Calif.) ( title game)
Semifinalists Carroll (Mont.)
Robert Morris (Ill.)
Coach of the Year Bill Odell (Azusa Pacific (Calif.))
Chuck Taylor MVP Brandon Cole (John Brown (Ark.))
Player of the Year Jarred Merrill (Oklahoma Christian)
Charles Stevenson Hustle Award Quinton Gibson (Robert Morris (Ill.))
Attendance unknown
Top scorer Daniel Rose Biola (Calif.)
(66 points)
NAIA Men's Division I Tournaments
«2004  2006»

The 2005 Buffalo Funds - NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held from March 16 to 22 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The sixty-eighth annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format [1]. The 2005 National Champions were the unranked John Brown University (Ark.) who defeated the 9th ranked Azusa Pacific University (Calif.) by a score of 65 to 55. The other NAIA National semifinalists were Carroll College (Mont.) and Robert Morris College (Ill.).

Contents

Awards and honors

2005 NAIA bracket

  First Round
March 16, 17
Second Round
March 18
Elite Eight
March 19
NAIA National Semifinals
March 21
NAIA National Championship
March 22
                                               
1  Mountain State (W. Va.) 77  
-  Columbia (Mo.) 50  
  1  Mountain State 88  
  -  Trevecca Nazarene 65  
-  Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 71
16  Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.) 79  
  1  Mountain State 66  
TOP TIER
March 16
  9  Azusa Pacific 82  
9  Azusa Pacific (Calif.) 88  
-  Houston Baptist (Texas) 72  
  9  Azusa Pacific 100
  8  Oklahoma Christian 93 (3 OT)  
-  Brescia (Ky.) 63 (OT)
8  Oklahoma Christian 72  
  9  Azusa Pacific 96  
  4  Robert Morris 88  
5  Georgetown (Ky.) 84  
-  Georgia Southwestern 62  
  5  Georgetown 87
  -  Oklahoma Baptist 75  
-  Oklahoma Baptist 75
12  Westminster (Utah) 60  
  5  Georgetown 87
TOP TIER
March 16
  4  Robert Morris 99  
13  Lubbock Christian (Texas) 66  
-  California Baptist 77  
  -  California Baptist 71
  4  Robert Morris 105  
-  Xavier (La.) 79
4  Robert Morris (Ill.) 81  
9  Azusa Pacific 55
-  John Brown 65
3  Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 69  
-  Faulkner (Ala.) 63  
  3  Lindsey Wilson >78  
  14  St. Xavier 78  
-  Langston (Okla.) 55
14  St. Xavier (Ill.) 72  
  14  St. Xavier 57  
BOTTOM TIER
March 17
  -  Carroll 76  
11  Concordia (Calif.) 72  
-  Carroll (Mont.) 85  
  -  Carroll 66
  -  Oklahoma City 65  
-  Oklahoma City 77
6  Mobile (Ala.) 74  
  -  Carroll 60
  -  John Brown 73  
7  Union (Tenn.) 72  
-  John Brown (Ark.) 84  
  -  John Brown 61
  10  LSU-Shreveport 56  
-  Cumberland (Ky.) 75 (OT)
10  LSU-Shreveport 79  
  -  John Brown 58
BOTTOM TIER
March 17
  -  Biola 56  
15  Missouri Baptist 70  
-  Biola (Calif.) 76  
  -  Biola 65
  2  Southern Polytechnic 63  
-  Voorhees (S.C.) 74
2  Southern Polytechnic (Ga.) 88  

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