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1989 NAIA women's basketball tournament

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1989 (1989) NAIA women's basketball tournament
Teams16
Finals siteMissouri Kansas City, Missouri
ChampionsSouthern Nazarene Redskins (1st title, 1st title game,
1st Fab Four)
Runner-upClaflin Lady Panthers (2nd title game,
2nd Fab Four)
Semifinalists
Coach of the yearBob Hoffman (Southern Nazarene)
Charles Stevenson
Hustle Award
Shelly Kay (Wayland Baptist)
Chuck Taylor MVPMiriam Walker-Samuels (Claflin)
Top scorerMiriam Walker-Samuels (Claflin)
(162 points)
NAIA women's tournaments
«1988 1990»

The 1989 NAIA women's basketball tournament was the ninth annual tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of women's college basketball among its members in the United States and Canada.

Southern Nazarene defeated top-seeded Claflin in the championship game, 98–96, to claim the Redskins' first NAIA national title.

The tournament was played in Kansas City, Missouri.[1]

Qualification

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The tournament field remained fixed at sixteen teams, with seeds assigned to the top eight teams.

The tournament utilized a simple single-elimination format. The national third-place game, for the two teams that lost in the semifinals, was eliminated for this tournament, reducing the number of games by one.

Bracket

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Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals National championship
            
1 Claflin 114
Glenville State 59
1 Claflin 91
8 Central State (OH) 85
Washburn 67
8 Central State (OH) 73
1 Claflin 90
4 St. Ambrose 89
5 Wingate 65
Doane 68
Doane 69
4 St. Ambrose 90
St. Thomas Aquinas 75
4 St. Ambrose 111
1 Claflin 96
3 Southern Nazarene 98
3 Southern Nazarene 87
Tri-State 67
3 Southern Nazarene 92
Western Washington 68
Western Washington 89
6 Minnesota Duluth 73
3 Southern Nazarene 73
2 Arkansas Tech 57
7 Wayland Baptist 81
Union (TN) 70
7 Wayland Baptist 66
2 Arkansas Tech 78
Fresno Pacific 40
2 Arkansas Tech 80

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "NAIA Women's Basketball Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. Retrieved February 13, 2022.