The 2018 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament is the 62nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States. Featuring sixty-four teams, it began on March 9, and concluded with the championship game on March 24.
The eight regional winners met in the Elite Eight for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. For the second consecutive year, the Elite Eight was held at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Ferris State defeated Northern State, 71–69, to win the first national championship in the school's history.
Qualification A total of 64 bids are available for each tournament: 24 automatic bids (awarded to the champions of the twenty-two Division II conferences) and 40 at-large bids.
The sixty-four bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), each of which contains three of the twenty-four Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball. Each region consists of three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and five at-large bids (which are awarded regardless of conference affiliation).
Six teams qualified for their first NCAA Division II tournament in 2018: Lees–McRae, Ohio Dominican, Point Loma Nazarene, Saint Martin's, Southern Nazarene, and West Florida.
Regionals
Atlantic – Petersburg, Virginia Location: VSU Multi-Purpose Center
Central – Maryville, Missouri Location: Bearcat Arena
East – DeWitt, New York Location: Le Moyne Events Center
Midwest – Big Rapids, Michigan Location: Jim Wink Arena
South – Atlanta, Georgia Location: Forbes Arena
* – Denotes overtime period
Southeast – Harrogate, Tennessee Location: B. Frank "Tex" Turner Arena
South Central – Canyon, Texas Location: First United Bank Center
* – Denotes overtime period
West – Monmouth, Oregon Location: WOU Physical Education Building
Elite Eight – Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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