1988 NAIA men's basketball tournament

Teams

Finals site

Kemper Arena
Kansas City, Missouri

Champions

Grand Canyon (AZ) (3 title, 3 title game,
3 Fab Four)

Runner-up

Auburn-Montgomery (1 title game,
1 Fab Four)

Semifinalists

Charleston (SC) (2 Final Four)
Waynesburg (PA) (1 Final Four)

Charles Stevenson
Hustle Award

Shawn McCallister (Waynesburg (PA))

Chuck Taylor MVP

Rodney Johns (Grand Canyon)

NAIA men's tournaments
«1987	1989»

The 1988 NAIA men's basketball tournament was held in March at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The 51st annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.^[1]

This was the last time that a third-place game (featuring the losing national semifinalist teams) determined 3rd and 4th places in the tournament on the court.

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Awards and honors

Leading scorers: Reginald Henderson Rodney Johns
Leading rebounder:
Player of the Year: est. 1994.^[2]

Bracket

First round			Second round			Elite Eight			NAIA national semifinals			NAIA national championship

1	St. Thomas Aquinas (N.Y.)	93

-	Hillsdale (Mich.)	83
			1	St. Thomas Aquinas	84

			16	Wisconsin–Eau Claire	69
16	Wisconsin–Eau Claire	74

-	Westmont (Calif.)	59
						9	Charleston (S.C.)	81
TOP TIER
						1	St. Thomas Aquinas	61
9	College of Charleston (S.C.)	78

-	Defiance (Ohio)	62
			9	Charleston (S.C.)	73'

			-	Ozarks (Ark.)	59
8	Transylvania (Ky.)	75

-	Ozarks (Ark.)	79*
									9	Charleston (S.C.)	70

									4	Auburn-Montgomery	74
5	William Jewell (Mo.)	68

-	Georgia College	55
			12	Western Washington	70

			5	William Jewell	89
12	Western Washington	80

-	West Virginia Tech	67
						5	William Jewell	49
TOP TIER
						4	Auburn-Montgomery	51
13	Grace (Ind.)	97

-	Paul Quinn (Tex.)	89
			-	Grace	66

			4	Auburn-Montgomery	73
4	Auburn–Montgomery (Ala.)	79'

-	Hawaii Pacific	69
												4	Auburn-Montgomery	86

												11	Grand Canyon	89*
3	David Lipscomb (Tenn.)	89

-	East Texas Baptist	63
			3	David Lipscomb	108

			14	College of Idaho	123
14	College of Idaho	88

-	Southern Nazarene (Okla.)	75
						11	Grand Canyon	99*
BOTTOM TIER
						14	College of Idaho	96
11	Grand Canyon (Ariz.)	103

-	Hastings (Neb.)	75
			11	Grand Canyon	101

			6	Fort Hays State	95
6	Fort Hays State (Kan.)	95

-	Belmont Abbey (N.C.)	63
									11	Grand Canyon	108

									2	Waynesburg	106
7	McKendree (Ill.)	124

-	Huron (S.D.)	107
			7	McKendree	79

			-	Dordt	86
10	Mobile (Ala.)	71										NAIA third-place game

-	Dordt (Iowa)	86
						-	Dordt	66				9	Charleston (S.C.)	89
BOTTOM TIER
						2	Waynesburg	87				2	Waynesburg	61
15	Minnesota Duluth	70

-	Eastern (Pa.)	42
			15	Minnesota-Duluth	64

			2	Waynesburg	68
2	Waynesburg (Pa.)	83

-	Franklin Pierce (N.H.)	72

* denotes overtime.

References

^ "NAIA.org". Archived from the original on May 1, 2009. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^ NAIA Championship History Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine

NAIA men's basketball championship

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2021–present)

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The NAIA canceled the 2020 tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic and removed divisional classifications starting in 2020–21.

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