The 2005 NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament was the
tournament
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held by the
NAIA to determine the national champion of men's
college basketball
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among its
Division II members in the
United States
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and
Canada
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for the
2004–05 basketball season.
Walsh defeated
Concordia Nebraska in the championship game, 81–70, to claim the Cavaliers' first NAIA national title.
The tournament was played at
Keeter Gymnasium
Memorial Fieldhouse and Keeter Gymnasium is a 3,500-seat arena for College of the Ozarks at Point Lookout, Missouri, United States.
The Fieldhouse, located at the corner of Cultural Court and Opportunity Avenue, like other buildings on the campu ...
on the campus of the
College of the Ozarks in
Point Lookout, Missouri.
Qualification
The tournament field remained fixed at thirty-two teams, and the top sixteen teams were seeded.
The tournament continued to utilize a
single-elimination
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 mat ...
format.
Bracket
See also
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2005 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament
The 2005 Buffalo Funds - NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament was held from March 16 to 22 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The sixty-eighth annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimina ...
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2005 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
The 2005 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 15, 2005, and ended with the championsh ...
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2005 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
The 2005 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as the culmination of the 2004–05 N ...
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2005 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament
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2005 NAIA Division II women's basketball tournament
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References
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NAIA men's basketball championship
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