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| Teams | 44 | ||||
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| Finals site | Evansville, Indiana | ||||
| Champions | Morgan State Bears (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | SW Missouri State Bears (4th title game) | ||||
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| Winning coach | Nat Frazier (1st title) | ||||
| MOP | Marvin Webster (Morgan State) | ||||
| Attendance | 14,207 | ||||
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The 1974 NCAA Division II basketball tournament involved 44 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 1973–74 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by Morgan State University and Morgan State's Marvin Webster was the Most Outstanding Player.
This was the first tournament to be officially designated as a Division II basketball championship. The NCAA first split into competitive divisions for the 1956–57 school year, creating the top-level University Division and second-tier College Division. Effective with the 1973–74 school year, the NCAA adopted the three-division system that exists to this day. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split into Division II and the non-scholarship Division III. Since the Division III basketball tournament would not be played until 1975, the 1974 Division II tournament included Division III teams despite the name.
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