The 1976 AIAW National Small College Basketball Championship was the second 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
women's collegiate basketball among its small college members in the United States.
The tournament was held at
Ashland College
Ashland University is a private university in Ashland, Ohio. The university consists of a main campus and several off-campus centers throughout central and northern Ohio. Ashland was founded in 1878 as Ashland College. It is affiliated with The ...
in
Ashland, Ohio
Ashland is a city in and the county seat of Ashland County, Ohio, United States, 66 miles southwest of Cleveland and 82 miles northeast of Columbus. The population was 20,362 at the 2010 census. It is the center of the Ashland Micropolitan Stat ...
between March 23 and March 27, 1976.
Berry
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defeated
West Georgia in the championship game, 68–62, capturing the Vikings' first AIAW small college national title.
Sixteen teams participated in a
single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...
that additionally included a third-place final for the two teams that lost in the semi-final games.
Tournament bracket
See also
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1976 AIAW National Large College Basketball Championship
The 1976 AIAW women's basketball tournament was held on March 25–28, 1976. The host site was Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Sixteen teams participated, and Delta State University was crowned national champion at ...
References
{{NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament
AIAW women's basketball tournament
AIAW Small College
AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship
1976 in sports in Ohio
Women's sports in Ohio