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2006 NAIA Men's Division I
Basketball Tournament

Teams

Finals Site

Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City, Missouri

Champions

Texas Wesleyan (1st title)

Runner-Up

Oklahoma City (5th title game)

Semifinalists

Oklahoma Baptist (8th Final Four)
Robert Morris (Ill.) (2nd Final Four)

Coach of the Year

Terry Waldrop (Texas Wesleyan)

Chuck Taylor MVP

Evan Patterson (Texas Wesleyan)

Player of the Year

Brandon Cole (John Brown)

Charles Stevenson Hustle Award

Trevor Meier (Oklahoma City)

Attendance

unknown

Top scorer

Willie Irick Oklahoma City
(85 points)

NAIA Men's Division I Tournaments

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The 2006 Buffalo Funds - NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held from March 15 to 21 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. This was the 69th annual NAIA DI basketball tournament and featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.^[1]

Olivet Nazarene Tigers trying to come back to win verses the Oklahoma Baptist Bison.

The unranked Texas Wesleyan University Rams would defeat the Oklahoma City University Stars by a score of 67 to 65.^[2] 2006 would mark the second year in a row an unranked team won the National Championship. Undeterred by this loss, the Stars would go on to win the next two National Championship titles. The other teams that made it to the NAIA National Semifinals were Oklahoma City University and Robert Morris (Ill.).

1 Awards and honors
2 2006 NAIA bracket
3 References
4 See also

Awards and honors [edit]

Leading scorer: Willie Irick, Oklahoma City; in 5 games Irick scored a total of 85 points, including 31 field goals and 17 free throws averaging 17.0 points per game.
Leading rebounder: Freeman Taylor, Robert Morris (Ill.); in 4 games Taylor earned 61 rebounds averaging 15.25 per game
Most consecutive tournament appearances: 15th, Georgetown (Ky.)
Most tournament appearances: Georgetown (Ky.), 25th of 30, appearances to the NAIA Tournament.^[3]

2006 NAIA bracket [edit]

First Round March 15, 16			Second Round March 17			Elite Eight March 18			NAIA National Semifinals March 20			NAIA National Championship March 21

1	Mountain State (W. Va.)	84
-	SW Assemblies (Texas)	64
			1	Mountain State	65

			-	Olivet Nazarene	65
-	Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)	84

16	Wayland Baptist (Texas)	77
						-	Olivet Nazarene	75
TOP TIER March 15
						8	Oklahoma Baptist	91
9	Georgetown (Ky.)	83

-	Vanguard (Calif.)	80
			9	Georgetown	71

			8	Oklahoma Baptist	80
-	Illinois - Springfield	70

8	Oklahoma Baptist	86
									8	Oklahoma Baptist	72

									-	Texas Wesleyan	83
5	Union (Tenn.)	64

-	Texas Wesleyan	82
			-	Texas Wesleyan	67

			-	Oklahoma Christian	62
-	Oklahoma Christian	77

12	Lee (Tenn.)	70
						-	Texas Wesleyan	73
TOP TIER March 15
						4	Carroll	70
13	Campbellsville (Ky.)	70

-	Mobile (Ala.)	54
			13	Campbellsville	74

			4	Carroll	78
-	Saint Xavier	40

4	Carroll (Mont.)	68
												-	Texas Wesleyan	67

												7	Oklahoma City	65
3	Robert Morris (Ill.)

-	Southern Wesleyan (S.C.)	80
			3	Robert Morris	87

			-	Spring Hill	71
-	Spring Hill (Ala.)	82

14	Voorhees (S.C.)	67
						3	Robert Morris	94
BOTTOM TIER March 16
						-	Azusa Pacific	91
11	Trevecca Nazarene (Tenn.)	82

-	Lambuth (Tenn.)	67
			-	Trevecca Nazarene	75

			-	Azusa Pacific	78
-	John Brown (Ark.)	63

6	Azusa Pacific (Calif.)	65
									3	Robert Morris	92

									7	Oklahoma City	94
7	Oklahoma City	91

-	Columbia (Mo.)	64
			7	Oklahoma City	99

			10	Houston Baptist	77
-	Westminster (Utah)	64

10	Houston Baptist	73
						7	Oklahoma City	77
BOTTOM TIER March 16
						-	Lindsey Wilson	67
15	San Diego Christian (Calif.)	72

-	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	83
			-	Lindsey Wilson	85

			-	Southern Polytechnic	73
-	Southern Polytechnic (Ga.)	104

2	LSU-Shreveport	90

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