2015 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament

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2015 NCAA Division III
men's basketball tournament

Teams

Finals site

Salem Civic Center
Salem, Virginia

Champions

Wisconsin–Stevens Point Pointers (4th title)

Runner-up

Augustana (IL) Vikings (3rd title game)

Semifinalists

Babson Beavers (1st Final Four)
Virginia Wesleyan Marlins (3rd Final Four)

NCAA Division III men's tournaments
«2014	2016»

The 2015 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 62 teams to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The tournament took place during March 2015, with the national semifinal and championship rounds taking place at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.

Wisconsin–Stevens Point defeated Augustana (IL), 70–54, to win their fourth Division III national championship.

Qualifying teams

Automatic bids (43)

The following 43 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2015 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).

Automatic bids
Conference	Team	Record (Conf.)	Appearance	Last bid
Allegheny Mountain	Medaille	19–7 (14–4)	4th	2012
American Southwest	East Texas Baptist	23–5 (15–5)	1st	Never
Capital	Salisbury	20–7 (14–4)	6th	1997
Centennial	Dickinson	22–5 (13–5)	7th	2014
CUNYAC	Baruch	21–6 (14–2)	4th	2009
CCIW	Augustana (IL)	23–4 (11–3)	14th	2014
Colonial States	Neumann	17–10 (12–6)	1st	Never
Commonwealth Coast	Endicott	23–5 (16–2)	6th	2012
Empire 8	St. John Fisher	23–4 (14–2)	15th	2010
Great Northeast	Albertus Magnus	27–1 (18–0)	5th	2014
Heartland	Defiance	21–6 (14–4)	5th	2010
Iowa	Dubuque	23–5 (10–4)	6th	2013
Landmark	Scranton	22–5 (14–2)	26th	2014
Liberty	Skidmore	19–7 (14–2)	3rd	2012
Little East	Keene State	20–8 (8–6)	3rd	2007
MAC Commonwealth	Alvernia	18–9 (10–6)	10th	2014
MAC Freedom	Misericordia	21–6 (11–3)	2nd	2012
MASCAC	Westfield State	20–6 (11–1)	3rd	1993
Michigan	Calvin	21–6 (12–2)	20th	2014
Midwest	St. Norbert	24–1 (18–0)	7th	2014
Minnesota	St. Thomas (MN)	24–3 (17–3)	16th	2014
NECC	Regis (MA)	19–8 (12–4)	1st	Never
NESCAC	Wesleyan (CT)	19–8 (5–5)	1st	Never
NEWMAC	Babson	25–2 (13–1)	7th	2014
New Jersey	Stockton	22–5 (14–4)	15th	2014
North Atlantic	Colby–Sawyer	19–6 (15–3)	4th	2003
North Coast	DePauw	19–9 (9–9)	13th	2007
NEAC	SUNY Cobleskill	17–10 (13–4)	1st	Never
Northern Athletics	Concordia (WI)	19–9 (14–6)	3rd	2011
Northwest	Whitworth	24–3 (15–1)	10th	2014
Ohio	Mount Union	22–6 (15–3)	2nd	1997
Old Dominion	Randolph–Macon	26–2 (16–0)	15th	2014
Presidents'	Saint Vincent	22–6 (14–2)	3rd	2014
Skyline	Sage	23–4 (15–3)	1st	Never
Southern	Hendrix	12–16 (4–10)	3rd	1996
SCIAC	Claremont–Mudd–Scripps	21–6 (12–4)	12th	2012
SCAC	Texas Lutheran	18–9 (11–3)	1st	Never
SLIAC	Spalding	18–9 (13–5)	2nd	2013
SUNYAC	Oswego State	19–9 (12–6)	3rd	2012
UAA	Emory	20–5 (10–4)	4th	2014
Upper Midwest	Northwestern–St. Paul	18–9 (14–0)	5th	2014
USA South	LaGrange	17–11 (7–7)	2nd	2014
Wisconsin	UW–Whitewater	24–3 (15–1)	20th	2014

At-large bids (19)

The following 19 teams were awarded qualification for the 2015 NCAA field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee. The committee evaluated teams on the basis of their win-loss percentage, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, results against common opponents, and results against teams included in the NCAA's final regional rankings.

At-large bids
Conference	Team	Record (Conf.)	Appearance	Last bid
NESCAC	Amherst	20–7 (6–4)	17th	2014
NESCAC	Bates	19–6 (7–3)	1st	Never
Landmark	Catholic	22–5 (15–1)	13th	2013
Little East	Eastern Connecticut	22–5 (13–1)	6th	2014
CCIW	Elmhurst	19–7 (9–5)	4th	2009
CCIW	Illinois Wesleyan	19–8 (10–4)	24th	2014
Ohio	John Carroll	20–6 (15–3)	13th	2010
Centennial	Johns Hopkins	23–4 (16–2)	10th	2014
Ohio	Marietta	25–3 (16–2)	4th	2013
North Coast	Ohio Wesleyan	22–5 (16–2)	6th	2014
Minnesota	St. Olaf	21–5 (16–4)	2nd	2014
NEWMAC	Springfield	19–8 (10–4)	8th	2014
NESCAC	Trinity (CT)	20–6 (9–1)	8th	2008
Wisconsin	UW–Stevens Point	21–5 (15–1)	14th	2014
Old Dominion	Virginia Wesleyan	23–5 (13–3)	15th	2014
UAA	Washington–St. Louis	20–5 (9–5)	19th	2014
New Jersey	William Paterson	20–7 (13–5)	16th	2012
North Coast	Wooster	22–6 (14–4)	24th	2014
NEWMAC	WPI	21–5 (11–3)	11th	2014

Tournament bracket

Top-left - Rock Island, Illinois

First round March 5–6 Campus Sites		Second round March 7 Campus Sites		Third round March 13 Rock Island, IL		Regional finals March 14 Rock Island, IL

		Augustana (IL)	68
St. Louis, MO / Rock Island, IL
		DePauw	66
Washington–St. Louis	73

DePauw	83
				Augustana (IL)	82

				Mount Union	69
Mount Union	87

Neumann	59
		Mount Union	81
Alliance, OH
		Calvin	69
Calvin	78

Oswego State	69
						Augustana (IL)	100

						Marietta	51
UW–Whitewater	71

Defiance	83
		Defiance	63
Whitewater, WI
		St. Olaf	68
Ohio Wesleyan	78

St. Olaf	90
				St. Olaf	72

				Marietta	79
Marietta	120

Medaille	81
		Marietta	88
Marietta, OH
		Wooster	86
Wooster	84

Misericordia	59

Bottom-left - Babson Park, Massachusetts

First round March 5–6 Campus Sites		Second round March 7 Campus Sites		Third round March 13 Babson Park, MA		Regional finals March 14 Babson Park, MA

Babson	75

Westfield State	62
		Babson	54
Babson Park, MA
		Scranton	47
Scranton	72

Baruch	62
				Babson	49

				Johns Hopkins	47
Johns Hopkins	95

Keene State	82
		Johns Hopkins	61
Baltimore, MD
		Skidmore	58
Skidmore	81

Wesleyan (CT)	66
						Babson	76*

						Trinity (CT)	69
Stockton	81

Endicott	61
		Stockton	59
Galloway, NJ
		Bates	68*
Bates	92

Saint Vincent	80
				Bates	62

				Trinity (CT)	79
Trinity (CT)	60

Colby–Sawyer	55
		Trinity (CT)	60
Hartford, CT
		Salisbury	47
Eastern Connecticut	54

Salisbury	66

Top-right - Ashland, Virginia

First round March 5–6 Campus Sites		Second round March 7 Campus Sites		Third round March 13 Ashland, VA		Regional finals March 14 Ashland, VA

		Randolph–Macon	78
Washington, D.C. / Ashland, VA
		Catholic	65
Catholic	87

Alvernia	80
				Randolph–Macon	64

				St. John Fisher	57
St. John Fisher	76

WPI	70
		St. John Fisher	87
Rochester, NY
		Amherst	70
Amherst	91

Sage	67
						Randolph–Macon	47

						Virginia Wesleyan	49
Dickinson	74

Regis (MA)	64
		Dickinson	74
Carlisle, PA
		Albertus Magnus	72
Albertus Magnus	68

Springfield	58
				Dickinson	65

				Virginia Wesleyan	75
William Paterson	80

SUNY Cobleskill	54
		William Paterson	74
Wayne, NJ
		Virginia Wesleyan	77
Virginia Wesleyan	101

John Carroll	86

Bottom-right - Stevens Point, Wisconsin

First round March 5–6 Campus Sites		Second round March 7 Campus Sites		Third round March 13 Stevens Point, WI		Regional finals March 14 Stevens Point, WI

St. Thomas (MN)	70

Northwestern–St. Paul	71
		Northwestern–St. Paul	84
De Pere, WI
		Elmhurst	75
St. Norbert	98

Elmhurst	110***
				Northwestern–St. Paul	46

				East Texas Baptist	70
East Texas Baptist	75

Hendrix	59
		East Texas Baptist	80
Marshall, TX
		Claremont–Mudd–Scripps	75
Claremont–Mudd–Scripps	79

Texas Lutheran	55
						East Texas Baptist	28

						UW–Stevens Point	45
UW–Stevens Point	88

Concordia (WI)	56
		UW–Stevens Point	70
Stevens Point, WI
		Illinois Wesleyan	53
Illinois Wesleyan	72

Dubuque	53
				UW–Stevens Point	73

				Emory	53
Emory	88

Spalding	59
		Emory	85
Atlanta, GA
		Whitworth	84
Whitworth	88

LaGrange	60

Final Four - Salem, Virginia

Semifinals Friday, March 20		National championship Saturday, March 21

Augustana (IL)	68

Babson	48
		Augustana (IL)	54

		UW–Stevens Point	70
Virginia Wesleyan	59

UW–Stevens Point	68

References

^ "2015 men's basketball conference tourney tracker". D3Sports.com. February 21, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2023.

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