2004 NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament

2004 (2004) NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament

Teams	32
Finals site	Keeter Gymnasium Point Lookout, Missouri
Champions	Oregon Tech Owls (1st title, 2nd title game, 2nd Fab Four)
Runner-up	Bellevue Bruins (1st title game, 1st Fab Four)
Semifinalists	Saint Ambrose Fighting Bees (1st Fab Four) Sioux Falls Cougars (1st Fab Four)
Charles Stevenson Hustle Award	Brent Heller (Bellevue)
Chuck Taylor MVP	Kevin Baker (Oregon Tech)
Top scorer	Karl Peterson (Saint Ambrose) (86 points)
NAIA Division II men's tournaments «2003 2005»

The 2004 NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament was the tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of men's college basketball among its Division II members in the United States and Canada for the 2003–04 basketball season.

Oregon Tech defeated Bellevue (NE) in the championship game, 81–72, to claim the Owls' first NAIA national title.

The tournament was played at Keeter Gymnasium on the campus of the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri.^[1]

Qualification

See also: 2003–04 NAIA Division II men's basketball season

The tournament field remained fixed at thirty-two teams, and the top sixteen teams were seeded.

The tournament continued to utilize a single-elimination format.

Bracket

	First round					Second round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					National championship
	1	Jamestown	98
		Berea	81
						1	Jamestown	66
						16	Oregon Tech	73
		Dominican California	69
	16	Oregon Tech	71
											16	Oregon Tech	83
											8	Cedarville	75
	9	Cornerstone	97
		Bluefield (VA)	83
						9	Cornerstone	77
						8	Cedarville	98
		College of the Ozarks	75
	8	Cedarville	76
																16	Oregon Tech	80
																5	Saint Ambrose	67
	5	Saint Ambrose	63
		Sterling (KS)	62
						5	Saint Ambrose	86
							Saint Vincent	80
		Saint Vincent	113
	12	Indiana Tech	96
											5	Saint Ambrose	88*
											4	William Jewell	84
	13	Northwestern (IA)	100
		Huntington (IN)	103*
							Huntington (IN)	69
						4	William Jewell	74
		Maine–Machias	75
	4	William Jewell	90
																					16	Oregon Tech	81
																					2	Bellevue	72
	3	Albertson	77
		Tabor	60
						3	Albertson	71
							Daemen	76
		Daemen	74
	14	Taylor	67
												Daemen	62
												Sioux Falls	74
	11	Dickinson State	67
		Sioux Falls	85
							Sioux Falls	78
						6	Flagler	67
		King (TN)	44
	6	Flagler	76
																	Sioux Falls	62
																2	Bellevue	70
	7	Marian (IN)	94
		Cal State Hayward	81
						7	Marian (IN)	57
						10	MidAmerica Nazarene	69
		Iowa Wesleyan	70
	10	MidAmerica Nazarene	84
											10	MidAmerica Nazarene	50
											2	Siena Heights	74
	15	Siena Heights	72
		Cardinal Stritch	70
						15	Siena Heights	75
						2	Bellevue (NE)	78*
		St. Scholastica	55
	2	Bellevue (NE)	78

See also

• 2004 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament
• 2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
• 2004 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
• 2004 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament
• 2004 NAIA Division II women's basketball tournament

References

1. "NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. Retrieved April 17, 2022.