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Centennial Conference men's basketball tournament

The Centennial Conference men's basketball tournament is the annual conference basketball championship tournament for the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference. The tournament has been held annually since 1994. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.[1]

Centennial Conference men's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
SportBasketball
ConferenceCentennial Conference
FormatSingle-elimination tournament
Played1994–present
Current championSwarthmore (4th)
Most championshipsFranklin & Marshall (8)
Official websiteCentennial men's basketball

The tournament champion receives the Centennial's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship.

Format

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Ten teams compete in this competition and each team face the other team twice each season, so there are 18 within-conference matches each season. After the regular season, the fifth ranked team visit the fourth ranked team for the first round match. Then the final four tournament is hosted by the first ranked team.

In 2004, the play-in match was played because Gettysburg and Haverford were tied for the fourth place, but the first round match has been always held between the fourth and the fifth ranked teams thereafter. Until 2003, ten teams were divided two east and west divisions and top two teams from each division advanced to the tournament while play-in match was played if two teams were tied for the second place in the division.

Results

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Year Champions Score Runners-Up Refs
1994 Franklin & Marshall 63–61 Johns Hopkins [2]
1995 Muhlenberg 88–86 (OT) Franklin & Marshall [3]
1996 Franklin & Marshall 79–67 Gettysburg [4]
1997 Dickinson 90–59 Swarthmore [5]
1998 Muhlenberg 55–53 Johns Hopkins [6]
1999 Johns Hopkins 78–52 Washington (MD) [7]
2000 Franklin & Marshall 75–67 (OT) Johns Hopkins [8]
2001 Gettysburg 68–59 Muhlenberg [9][10]
2002 Gettysburg 50–47 Franklin & Marshall [11][12]
2003 Ursinus 96–88 (OT) Franklin & Marshall [13]
2004 Franklin & Marshall 69–58 Johns Hopkins [14][15][16]
2005 Ursinus 72–70 Franklin & Marshall [17][18]
2006 Ursinus 100–82 Johns Hopkins [19][20]
2007 Johns Hopkins 68–61 Haverford [21][22]
2008 Ursinus 85–78 Gettysburg [23][24]
2009 Gettysburg 73–65 Franklin & Marshall [25][26][27]
2010 Franklin & Marshall 66–62 Gettysburg [28][29][30]
2011 Franklin & Marshall 65–55 Dickinson [31][32][33]
2012 Franklin & Marshall 71–55 Muhlenberg [34][35]
2013 Dickinson 64–40 Franklin & Marshall [36][37][38]
2014 Johns Hopkins 60–55 Dickinson [39][40][41]
2015 Dickinson 65–62 Johns Hopkins [42][43][44]
2016 Franklin & Marshall 75–64 Swarthmore [45][46][47]
2017 Swarthmore 68–64 Dickinson [48][49][50]
2018 Johns Hopkins 61–57 Swarthmore [51][52][53]
2019 Swarthmore 79–61 Johns Hopkins [54][55][56]
2020 Johns Hopkins 73–71 Swarthmore [57][58][59]
2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Johns Hopkins 80–66 Swarthmore [60][61][62]
2023 Swarthmore 76–73 Johns Hopkins [63][64][65]
2024 Swarthmore 67–62 Johns Hopkins

Championship records

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Through 2023 tournament

Performance by school

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School Finals Record Finals Appearances Years won
Franklin & Marshall 8–6 14 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016
Johns Hopkins 6–9 15 1999, 2007, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022
Swarthmore 4–5 9 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024
Ursinus 4–0 4 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008
Dickinson 3–3 6 1997, 2013, 2015
Gettysburg 3–3 6 2001, 2002, 2009
Muhlenberg 2–2 4 1995, 1998
Haverford 0–1 1
Washington (MD) 0–1 1
  • McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) has not yet qualified for the Centennial tournament finals

Performance by year

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Teams (# of titles) 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023
Centennial (28) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10) (10)
1 Franklin & Marshall (8) C F C SF SF C SF F F C F F C C C F SF SF C SF SF 1R
2 Johns Hopkins (6) F SF F C F SF F 1R F C SF 1R SF C F 1R C F C C F
3 Ursinus (4) PI PI SF SF C SF C C SF C 1R SF SF SF SF
4 Dickinson (3) C SF F SF C F C SF F 1R 1R
4 Gettysburg (3) F C C SF SF SF SF F C F SF 1R SF SF SF SF
6 Swarthmore (3) SF F F C F C F F C
7 Muhlenberg (2) SF C SF PI C SF SF F SF 1R 1R SF SF F SF 1R SF SF
8 Haverford SF PI SF F SF SF
8 Washington (MD) SF SF SF F SF SF SF 1R SF SF SF 1R
10 McDaniel SF 1R SF 1R SF 1R 1R

Key

C Champion
F Runner-up
SF Semifinals
1R 1st round
PI Play-in
• Did not participate

References

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