1979 AIAW National Small College Basketball Championship

None August 2023 1979 AIAW National Small College Basketball Championship AIAW logo.jpg March 20, 1979 March 24, 1979 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota 16 South Carolina State (1st title) Dayton 16 1978 1980 (Division II)1980 (Division III) The 1979 AIAW National Small College Basketball Championship was the fifth annual tournament hosted by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women to determine the national champion of collegiate basketball among its small college 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 North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota between March 20–24, 1979. South Carolina State defeated Dayton in the championship game, 73–68, to capture the Lady Bulldogs' first AIAW small college national title. It is the only recognised national championship in the school's history. Sixteen teams participated in a single-elimination tournament that additionally included a third-place final for the two teams that lost in the semifinal games. Tournament bracket First round Quarterfinals Semifinals National championship Third place final Niagara 56 San Francisco 52 Morris Harvey 84 SE Louisiana 81 Dayton 84 Air Force 71 High Point 93 North Dakota State 40 Tuskegee 80 Eastern Washington 71 Tougaloo 69 Pepperdine 41 Seton Hall 74 Texas Wesleyan 58 South Carolina State 86 Emporia State 47 Niagara 78 Morris Harvey 73 Dayton 75 High Point 65 Tuskegee 75 Tougaloo 57 Seton Hall 53 South Carolina State 91 Niagara 59 Dayton 76 Tuskegee 70 South Carolina State 85 Dayton 68 South Carolina State 73 Niagara 71 Tuskegee 55 See also 1979 AIAW National Large College Basketball Championship References Category:AIAW women's basketball tournament AIAW Small College AIAW National Division I Basketball Championship Category:1979 in sports in North Dakota Category:Women's sports in North Dakota