2006 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

2006 (2006) NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Teams 32
Finals Site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions Texas Wesleyan
(1st title)
Runner-Up Oklahoma City
(5th title game)
Semifinalists Oklahoma Baptist
(8th Final Four)
Robert Morris (Ill.)
(2nd Final Four)
Coach of the Year Terry Waldrop
(Texas Wesleyan)
Chuck Taylor MVP Evan Patterson
(Texas Wesleyan)
Player of the Year Brandon Cole
(John Brown)
Charles Stevenson
Hustle Award
Trevor Meier
(Oklahoma City)
Top scorer Willie Irick (Oklahoma City)
(85 points)
NAIA Men's Division I Tournaments
 2005 2007 

The 2006 Buffalo Funds - NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held from March 15 to 21 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. This was the 69th annual NAIA DI basketball tournament and featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.[1]

Olivet Nazarene Tigers trying to come back to win versus the Oklahoma Baptist Bison.

The unranked Texas Wesleyan University Rams defeated the Oklahoma City University Stars by a score of 67 to 65.[2] 2006 marked the second year in a row an unranked team won the National Championship. Undeterred by this loss, the Stars went on to win the next two National Championship titles. The other teams that made it to the NAIA National Semifinals were Oklahoma City University and Robert Morris (Ill.).

Awards and honors

2006 NAIA bracket

First Round
March 15, 16
Second Round
March 17
Elite Eight
March 18
NAIA National Semifinals
March 20
NAIA National Championship
March 21
               
1 Mountain State (W. Va.) 84
- SW Assemblies (Texas) 64
1 Mountain State 65
- Olivet Nazarene 65
- Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 84
16 Wayland Baptist (Texas) 77
- Olivet Nazarene 75
TOP TIER
March 15
8 Oklahoma Baptist 91
9 Georgetown (Ky.) 83
- Vanguard (Calif.) 80
9 Georgetown 71
8 Oklahoma Baptist 80
- Illinois - Springfield 70
8 Oklahoma Baptist 86
8 Oklahoma Baptist 72
- Texas Wesleyan 83
5 Union (Tenn.) 64
- Texas Wesleyan 82
- Texas Wesleyan 67
- Oklahoma Christian 62
- Oklahoma Christian 77
12 Lee (Tenn.) 70
- Texas Wesleyan 73
TOP TIER
March 15
4 Carroll 70
13 Campbellsville (Ky.) 70
- Mobile (Ala.) 54
13 Campbellsville 74
4 Carroll 78
- Saint Xavier 40
4 Carroll (Mont.) 68
- Texas Wesleyan 67
7 Oklahoma City 65
3 Robert Morris (Ill.)
- Southern Wesleyan (S.C.) 80
3 Robert Morris 87
- Spring Hill 71
- Spring Hill (Ala.) 82
14 Voorhees (S.C.) 67
3 Robert Morris 94
BOTTOM TIER
March 16
- Azusa Pacific 91
11 Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.) 82
- Lambuth (Tenn.) 67
- Trevecca Nazarene 75
- Azusa Pacific 78
- John Brown (Ark.) 63
6 Azusa Pacific (Calif.) 65
3 Robert Morris 92
7 Oklahoma City 94
7 Oklahoma City 91
- Columbia (Mo.) 64
7 Oklahoma City 99
10 Houston Baptist 77
- Westminster (Utah) 64
10 Houston Baptist 73
7 Oklahoma City 77
BOTTOM TIER
March 16
- Lindsey Wilson 67
15 San Diego Christian (Calif.) 72
- Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 83
- Lindsey Wilson 85
- Southern Polytechnic 73
- Southern Polytechnic (Ga.) 104
2 LSU-Shreveport 90

References

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