1957 NCAA College Division Men's 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.

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
Mount St. Mary's 81
Kentucky Wesleyan 99
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
Wheaton 71
Cal State Los Angeles 53
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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