2005 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

2005 (2005) NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Teams 32
Finals Site Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri
Champions John Brown (Ark.)
(1 title)
Runner-Up Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
(1 title game)
Semifinalists Carroll (Mont.)
(1 Final Four)
Robert Morris (Ill.)
(1 Final Four)
Coach of the Year Bill Odell
(Azusa Pacific (Calif.))
Chuck Taylor MVP Brandon Cole
(John Brown (Ark.))
Player of the Year Jarred Merrill
(Oklahoma Christian)
Charles Stevenson
Hustle Award
Quinton Gibson
(Robert Morris (Ill.))
Top scorer Daniel Rose (Biola (Calif.))
(66 points)
NAIA Men's Division I Tournaments
 2004 2006 

The 2005 Buffalo Funds - NAIA Men's Division I 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-elimination format.[1] The 2005 National Champions were the unranked John Brown University (Ark.) who defeated the 9th ranked Azusa Pacific University (Calif.) by a score of 65 to 55. The other NAIA National semifinalists were Carroll College (Mont.) and Robert Morris College (Ill.).

Awards and honors

2005 NAIA bracket

First Round
March 16, 17
Second Round
March 18
Elite Eight
March 19
NAIA National Semifinals
March 21
NAIA National Championship
March 22
               
1 Mountain State (W. Va.) 77
- Columbia (Mo.) 50
1 Mountain State 88
- Trevecca Nazarene 65
- Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 71
16 Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.) 79
1 Mountain State 66
TOP TIER
March 16
9 Azusa Pacific 82
9 Azusa Pacific (Calif.) 88
- Houston Baptist (Texas) 72
9 Azusa Pacific 100
8 Oklahoma Christian 93*
- Brescia (Ky.) 63*
8 Oklahoma Christian 72
9 Azusa Pacific 96
4 Robert Morris 88
5 Georgetown (Ky.) 84
- Georgia Southwestern 62
5 Georgetown 87
- Oklahoma Baptist 75
- Oklahoma Baptist 75
12 Westminster (Utah) 60
5 Georgetown 87
TOP TIER
March 16
4 Robert Morris 99
13 Lubbock Christian (Texas) 66
- California Baptist 77
- California Baptist 71
4 Robert Morris 105
- Xavier (La.) 79
4 Robert Morris (Ill.) 81
9 Azusa Pacific 55
- John Brown 65
3 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 69
- Faulkner (Ala.) 63
3 Lindsey Wilson 68
14 St. Xavier 78
- Langston (Okla.) 55
14 St. Xavier (Ill.) 72
14 St. Xavier 57
BOTTOM TIER
March 17
- Carroll 76
11 Concordia (Calif.) 72
- Carroll (Mont.) 85
- Carroll 66
- Oklahoma City 65
- Oklahoma City 77
6 Mobile (Ala.) 74
- Carroll 60
- John Brown 73
7 Union (Tenn.) 72
- John Brown (Ark.) 84
- John Brown 61
10 LSU-Shreveport 56
- Cumberland (Ky.) 75*
10 LSU-Shreveport 79
- John Brown 58
BOTTOM TIER
March 17
- Biola 56
15 Missouri Baptist 70
- Biola (Calif.) 76
- Biola 65
2 Southern Polytechnic 63
- Voorhees (S.C.) 74
2 Southern Polytechnic (Ga.) 88

References

  1. 2005 Tournament Bracket>
  2. "NAIA Championship History" (PDF). cstv.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-15.
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