2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2013 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 2012–13 basketball season.
The eight regional winners met at the Elite Eight for the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds held at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. As part of the festivities surrounding the 75th edition of the NCAA tournament, the championship game was played at Philips Arena in Atlanta on April 7, 2013.

Qualification and tournament format

The champions of 22 of the 24 Division II basketball conferences qualified automatically. The Great Midwest Athletic Conference, in its first season of operation, and the Great American Conference, in its second season, were not eligible for automatic berths. An additional 42 teams were selected as at-large participants by the selection committee. As in previous years, the first three rounds of the tournament were organized in regions comprising eight participants in groups of two or three conferences with seeds assigned by the selection committee.
Traditionally, the Elite Eight regional winners meet in one site for the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. However, as noted above, this was changed for 2013 only, with the quarterfinals and semifinals held in Louisville and the final game in Atlanta.
This was the final tournament for the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which disbanded at the end of the 2012–13 school year, with most of the members forming the new Mountain East Conference.

Automatic qualifiers

The following teams automatically qualified for the national tournament as the champions of their conference tournaments:
TeamConferenceRegion
Cal Poly PomonaCCAAWest
BloomfieldCACCEast
Bowie StateCIAAAtlantic
Belmont AbbeyConference CarolinasSoutheast
BridgeportECCEast
FindlayGLIACMidwest
DruryGLVCMidwest
Seattle PacificGNACWest
Christian BrothersGulf SouthSouth
St. Mary's HeartlandSouth Central
Tarleton StateLone StarSouth Central
Central MissouriMIAACentral
Southern New HampshireNortheast-10East
Minnesota State–MankatoNSICCentral
Dixie StatePacific WestWest
USC AikenPeach BeltSoutheast
Indiana PSACAtlantic
Metro StateRMACSouth Central
WingateSACSoutheast
BenedictSIACSouth
Florida SouthernSunshine StateSouth
West LibertyWVIACAtlantic

Regionals

East - [Manchester, New Hampshire]

Location: SNHU Fieldhouse

South Central - Denver, Colorado">Denver">Denver, Colorado

Location: Auraria Events Center

Central - [Mankato, Minnesota]

Location: Taylor Center

Atlantic - [West Liberty, West Virginia]

Location: Academic, Sports, and Recreation Complex

South - [Lakeland, Florida]

Location: Jenkins Field House

West - [Bellingham, Washington]

Location: Sam Carver Gymnasium
All-West Region team: Kwame Alexander Jobi Wall Patrick Simon John Allen Region Most Outstanding Player Richard Woodworth

Midwest - [Springfield, Missouri]

Location: Weiser Gymnasium

Southeast - [Aiken, South Carolina]

Location: USCA Convocation Center

Elite Eight – [Louisville, Kentucky] and Atlanta, Georgia">Atlanta">Atlanta, Georgia

Venues: Freedom Hall, Philips Arena

All-tournament team