The 1989 NAIA women's basketball tournament was the ninth annual

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held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of women's

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among its members in the

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and

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defeated top-seeded Claflin in the championship game, 98–96, to claim the Redskins' first NAIA national title. The tournament was played in

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Qualification

The tournament field remained fixed at sixteen teams, with seeds assigned to the top eight teams. The tournament utilized a simple

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format. The national third-place game, for the two teams that lost in the semifinals, was eliminated for this tournament, reducing the number of games by one.

Bracket

References

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Qualification

Bracket

See also

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