The 1978 AIAW National Small College Basketball Championship was the fourth annual
tournament hosted by the
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Interc ...
to determine the national champion of
collegiate basketball among its small college members in the
United States.
The tournament was held at
Francis Marion College in
Florence, South Carolina
Florence is a city in and the county seat of Florence County, South Carolina, United States. It lies at the intersection of Interstates 20 and 95 and is the eastern terminus of the former. It is the primary city within the Florence metropolit ...
.
High Point defeated
South Carolina State in the championship game, 92–88, to capture the Panthers' first AIAW small college national title.
Sixteen teams participated in a
single-elimination tournament that additionally included a third-place final for the two teams that lost in the semifinal games.
Tournament bracket
See also
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1978 AIAW National Large College Basketball Championship
The 1978 AIAW National Large College Basketball Championship was held on March 17–25, 1978. Sixteen teams were invited, and UCLA Bruins were crowned national champions.
This was the first AIAW Tournament to divide the first two rounds into f ...
References
{{NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament
AIAW women's basketball tournament
AIAW Small College
AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship
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Women's sports in South Carolina