| Season | 1964–65 | ||||
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| Teams | 32 | ||||
| Finals site | Municipal Auditorium Kansas City, Missouri | ||||
| Champions | Central State (Ohio) (1st title, 1st title game, 1st Final Four) | ||||
| Runner-up | Oklahoma Baptist (1st title game, 1st Final Four) | ||||
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| Coach of the year | Dick Campbell (Carson-Newman (Tenn.)) | ||||
Charles Stevenson Hustle Award | David Kossover (Ouachita Baptist (Ark.)) | ||||
| MVP | Ken Wilburn (Central State (Ohio)) | ||||
| Top scorer | Al Tucker (Oklahoma Baptist) (125 points) | ||||
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The 1965 NAIA men's basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 28th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.[1] This is the first tournament since 1947 tournament to feature four new teams to the NAIA Semifinals. (It would be the 4th time since 1937 this has happened; previous years were the inaugural year 1937, 1945, and 1947). It was the longest gap up until it was eclipsed by the gap between 1969-2001 which featured 1 or more repeating semi-finalist each year. It was the second time the number one seed has won the tournament.