1981 AIAW National Division II Basketball Championship

1981 women's basketball tournament August 2023 1981 AIAW National Small College Basketball Championship AIAW logo.jpg Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio 16 William Penn (1st title) College of Charleston 16 1980 1982 The 1981 AIAW National Division II Basketball Championship was the second annual tournament hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women to determine the national champion of collegiate basketball among its Division II members in the United States.PRE-NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RECORDS http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/2020/AIAW.pdf NCAA NCAA.org 23 January 2022 The tournament was held at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. William Penn defeated College of Charleston in the championship game, 64–51, to capture the Statesmen's first AIAW Division II national title. Format Sixteen teams participated in a single-elimination tournament, a decrease in eight teams from the previous year's championship. The tournament also included a third-place game for the two teams that lost in the semifinal games. Tournament bracket First round Quarterfinals Semifinals National championship Third place final Lenoir-Rhyne 83 Biola 69 Abilene Christian 92 Springfield 75 William Penn 63 Idaho 43 Eastern Illinois 77 Colorado College 69 Louisiana College 76 Morgan State 61 Cal Poly Pomona 83 William Carey 65 College of Charleston 70 SW Missouri State 55 Tuskegee 83 Dayton 69 Lenoir-Rhyne 88 Abilene Christian 75 William Penn 73 Eastern Illinois 53 Louisiana College 61 Cal Poly Pomona 81 College of Charleston 85 Tuskegee 68 Lenoir-Rhyne 46 William Penn 71 Cal Poly Pomona 84 College of Charleston 102 William Penn 64 College of Charleston 51 Lenoir-Rhyne 65 Cal Poly Pomona 85 See also 1981 AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship 1981 AIAW National Division III Basketball Championship 1981 NAIA women's basketball tournament References Category:AIAW women's basketball tournament AIAW Division II AIAW National Division II Basketball Championship Category:1981 in sports in Ohio Category:Women's sports in Ohio