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==Tournament/field quality==
 
==Tournament/field quality==
  
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Due to the inferior quality of the questions, game format, and officiating at [[College Bowl]], informed quizbowl community members considered the tournament less legitimate than [[good quizbowl]] events such as [[ACF Nationals]] and, ultimately, the [[NAQT ICT]]. Compounding the inherent issues in determining a fair champion out of the College Bowl field was the rapid withdrawal of elite quizbowl teams from College Bowl participation from the 1990s onward. Early defections by [[Maryland]] and [[Georgia Tech]] were followed by the exit of nearly all contending [[ACF]] programs by the end of the 1990s save for [[Chicago]] and [[Michigan]], who themselves did not compete after the 2003-2004 season. Of the last five champions of College Bowl NCT, only one, [[2006 UCLA]], was good enough to even make the championship playoff bracket of the [[ICT]] or [[ACF Nationals]]. Other than 2006 UCLA, the last year in which a serious ICT or ACF title contender sent its best player lineup to College Bowl NCT was Virginia's 1997 team.
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For a full discussion of the mainstream quizbowl community's issues with the College Bowl program and the reasons for teams choosing not to participate, see the [[College Bowl|main page for College Bowl as a whole]]. This page is focused on the National Championship Tournament specifically.
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By 1990, several major contenders in [[ACF Nationals|ACF]] and, ultimately, [[NAQT ICT|NAQT]] tournaments such as [[Maryland]], [[Tennessee]], and [[Georgia Tech]] no longer participated in College Bowl. By 2000 the only regular participants in College Bowl among the top tier of quizbowl teams were [[Chicago]] and [[Michigan]], who themselves did not compete after the 2003-2004 season, and who never sent their best possible lineups to the tournament after 1998, due to a combination of the grad student restriction and individual players not wishing to play College Bowl. In the last eleven instances of the NCT, the only serious ICT or ACF title contenders who sent their best player lineups to College Bowl NCT were [[2006 UCLA]] and [[1998 Chicago|Chicago's 1998 team]], though other Chicago and Michigan lineups often won the NCT even without the top players from those clubs. The field quality below the top 4 was also very weak compared to other nationals due to the qualification system.
  
 
==ACUI Regional System==
 
==ACUI Regional System==
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| [[1978 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[1978 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[1978 Oberlin|Oberlin]]
 
| [[1978 Oberlin|Oberlin]]
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| Somewhere in Miami
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| Probably the WTVJ studio in Miami<ref>The tournament was produced for CBS television and was advertised as being held "in Miami."  WTVJ was the Miami CBS affiliate at the time and had a production studio with significant capabilities compared to most local stations, so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it.</ref>
 
| "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv"
 
| "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv"
 
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| [[1979 Oberlin|Oberlin]]
 
| [[1979 Oberlin|Oberlin]]
 
| [[1979 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[1979 Cornell|Cornell]]
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| Somewhere in Miami
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| Probably the WTVJ studio in Miami<ref>The tournament was produced for CBS television and was advertised as being held "in Miami."  WTVJ was the Miami CBS affiliate at the time and had a production studio with significant capabilities compared to most local stations, so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it. One participant recalls playing the event at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel, though that same account misremembers the Miami NCT as being held in 1980, so it is not clear if this is a reliable memory.</ref>
 
| "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv"
 
| "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv"
 
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| [[1982 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 
| [[1982 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 
| [[1982 Vassar|Vassar]]
 
| [[1982 Vassar|Vassar]]
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| Somewhere in New York
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| Probably the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City<ref>The tournament was produced for CBS radio and was advertised as being held "in New York," so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it.</ref>
 
| "16-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio"
 
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==NCT Participants (Regional champions & wild cards)==
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==Regional champions & wild cards==
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Except as discussed in footnotes and other text below, the set of "regional champions & wild card teams" for each year also comprises that year's list of NCT participants.
  
 
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| [[1979 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 
| [[1979 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 
| [[1979 Pacific Lutheran|Pacific Lutheran]]
 
| [[1979 Pacific Lutheran|Pacific Lutheran]]
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| [[1979 San Francisco State|San Fransisco State]]
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| [[1979 San Francisco State|San Francisco State]]
 
| [[1979 SIU-Carbondale|SIU-Carbondale]] (R9)
 
| [[1979 SIU-Carbondale|SIU-Carbondale]] (R9)
 
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| [[1982 Fresno State|Fresno State]]
 
| [[1982 Fresno State|Fresno State]]
 
| [[1982 Wisconsin-Eau Claire|Wisconsin-Eau Claire]] (R8)
 
| [[1982 Wisconsin-Eau Claire|Wisconsin-Eau Claire]] (R8)
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| 1983<ref>The NCT was not held in 1983. As best as can be determined, a full set of Regional tournaments was run, but the complete list of winners is not preserved anywhere, and no wild-card team was named. 1983 teams are not counted as nationals appearances in the table.</ref>
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| [[1983 Harvard|Harvard]]
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| [[1983 Maryland|Maryland]]
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| [[1983 North Carolina|North Carolina]]
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| [[1983 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]
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| [[1983 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] 
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| [[1983 Earlham|Earlham]]
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| [[1983 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
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| [[1983 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
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| [[1983 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
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| [[1983 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]]<ref>Some sources list the University of Idaho as winning this tournament. As there was no 1983 national, the discrepancy cannot be explained by the winning team declining their bid and being replaced, and is most likely a mistake. The best judgment of which article is more reliable indicates that Puget Sound probably won.</ref>
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| See note on 1983 tournament
 
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| [[1984 NCT|1984]]
 
| [[1984 NCT|1984]]
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| [[1984 San Jose State|San Jose State]]
 
| [[1984 San Jose State|San Jose State]]
 
| [[1984 Berkeley|Berkeley]] (R15)
 
| [[1984 Berkeley|Berkeley]] (R15)
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| 1985<ref>The NCT was not held in 1985. As best as can be determined, no wild-card team was named. 1985 teams are not counted as nationals appearances in the table.</ref>
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| [[1985 Connecticut|Connecticut]]
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| [[1985 Syracuse|Syracuse]]
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| [[1985 Princeton|Princeton]]
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| [[1985 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
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| [[1985 Duke|Duke]]
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| [[1985 Emory|Emory]]
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| [[1985 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
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| [[1985 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
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| [[1985 Notre Dame|Notre Dame]]
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| [[1985 Carleton|Carleton]]
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| [[1985 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
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| [[1985 Tulane|Tulane]]
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| [[1985 Utah|Utah]]
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| [[1985 Idaho|Idaho]]
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| [[1985 Berkeley|Berkeley]]
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| See note on 1985 tournament
 
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| [[1986 NCT|1986]]
 
| [[1986 NCT|1986]]
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| [[1988 NCT|1988]]
 
| [[1988 NCT|1988]]
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| [[1988 Harvard|Harvard]]
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| [[1988 Harvard|Harvard]]/[[1988 MIT|MIT]]<ref name="NCT88bids">The Region 1 champion Harvard and the Region 14 champion Washington declined to attend the NCT. Harvard was replaced by runner-up MIT. Washington's spot was offered to the (unrecorded) second-place finisher, who also declined. To fill the remaining spot, a second wild-card draw was held. In addition to the original wild-card bid for Syracuse, region 12 runner-up LSU attended the tournament as the final replacement team as a result of the second draw.</ref>
 
| [[1988 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[1988 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[1988 Princeton|Princeton]]
 
| [[1988 Princeton|Princeton]]
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| [[1988 Rice|Rice]]
 
| [[1988 Rice|Rice]]
 
| [[1988 Utah|Utah]]
 
| [[1988 Utah|Utah]]
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| [[1988 Washington|Washington]]
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| [[1988 Washington|Washington]]/None<ref name="NCT88bids">The Region 1 champion Harvard and the Region 14 champion Washington declined to attend the NCT. Harvard was replaced by runner-up MIT. Washington's spot was offered to the (unrecorded) second-place finisher, who also declined. To fill the remaining spot, a second wild-card draw was held. In addition to the original wild-card bid for Syracuse, region 12 runner-up LSU attended the tournament as the final replacement team as a result of the second draw.</ref>
 
| [[1988 UC-San Diego|UC-San Diego]]
 
| [[1988 UC-San Diego|UC-San Diego]]
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| [[1988 MIT|MIT]] (R1)
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| [[1988 Syracuse|Syracuse]] (R2), [[1988 Louisiana State|Louisiana State]] (R12)<ref name="NCT88bids">The Region 1 champion Harvard and the Region 14 champion Washington declined to attend the NCT. Harvard was replaced by runner-up MIT. Washington's spot was offered to the (unrecorded) second-place finisher, who also declined. To fill the remaining spot, a second wild-card draw was held. In addition to the original wild-card bid for Syracuse, region 12 runner-up LSU attended the tournament as the final replacement team as a result of the second draw.</ref>
 
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| [[1989 NCT|1989]]
 
| [[1989 NCT|1989]]
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| [[1991 Illinois|Illinois]]
 
| [[1991 Illinois|Illinois]]
 
| [[1991 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 
| [[1991 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
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| [[1991 Truman State|Truman State]]
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| [[1991 Truman State|Truman State]]<ref name="truman">The school now known as Truman State University was called Northeast Missouri State University until June 1996.</ref>
 
| [[1991 Rice|Rice]]
 
| [[1991 Rice|Rice]]
 
| [[1991 Utah|Utah]]
 
| [[1991 Utah|Utah]]
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| [[1992 Illinois|Illinois]]
 
| [[1992 Illinois|Illinois]]
 
| [[1992 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 
| [[1992 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
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| [[1992 Truman State|Truman State]]
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| [[1992 Truman State|Truman State]]<ref name="truman">The school now known as Truman State University was called Northeast Missouri State University until June 1996.</ref>
 
| [[1992 Rice|Rice]]
 
| [[1992 Rice|Rice]]
 
| [[1992 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 
| [[1992 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
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| [[1993 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]]
 
| [[1993 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]]
 
| [[1993 Stanford|Stanford]]
 
| [[1993 Stanford|Stanford]]
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| [[1993 Truman State|Truman State]] (R11)
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| [[1993 Cornell|Cornell]] (R2)
 
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| [[1994 NCT|1994]]
 
| [[1994 NCT|1994]]
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| [[1994 Illinois|Illinois]]
 
| [[1994 Illinois|Illinois]]
 
| [[1994 Iowa State|Iowa State]]
 
| [[1994 Iowa State|Iowa State]]
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| [[1994 Truman State|Truman State]]
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| [[1994 Truman State|Truman State]]<ref name="truman">The school now known as Truman State University was called Northeast Missouri State University until June 1996.</ref>
 
| [[1994 Midwestern State|Midwestern State]]
 
| [[1994 Midwestern State|Midwestern State]]
 
| [[1994 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 
| [[1994 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
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| [[1999 NCT|1999]]
 
| [[1999 NCT|1999]]
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| [[1999 Williams|Williams]]<ref>The Williams team attended the NCT site but was not permitted to participate in games due to their faculty sponsor failing to arrive.</ref>
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| [[1999 Williams|Williams]]<ref name="Williams">The Williams team attended the NCT site in 1999 but was not permitted to participate in games due to their faculty sponsor failing to arrive. This is counted as a nationals appearance in the table.</ref>
 
| [[1999 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[1999 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[1999 College of New Jersey|College of New Jersey]]
 
| [[1999 College of New Jersey|College of New Jersey]]
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| [[2005 Williams|Williams]]
 
| [[2005 Williams|Williams]]
 
| [[2005 Rochester|Rochester]]
 
| [[2005 Rochester|Rochester]]
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| [[2005 SUNY-Stony Brook|SUNY-Stony Brook]]
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| [[2005 SUNY-Stony Brook|SUNY-Stony Brook]]<ref name="combined">From 2005 to 2007, Region 3 and Region 4 ran a combined tournament. The overall winner, plus the highest-finishing team from the other region, received NCT bids. In all three years, the Region 4 team actually won. 2005 Stony Brook, 2006 Seton Hall, and 2007 Seton Hall received NCT bids as the highest-finishing Region 3 teams in each year.</ref>
 
| [[2005 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]]
 
| [[2005 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]]
 
| [[2005 Wofford|Wofford]]
 
| [[2005 Wofford|Wofford]]
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| [[2006 UMass-Lowell|UMass-Lowell]]
 
| [[2006 UMass-Lowell|UMass-Lowell]]
 
| [[2006 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]]
 
| [[2006 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]]
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| [[2006 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]
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| [[2006 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]<ref name="combined"></ref>
 
| [[2006 Bucknell|Bucknell]]
 
| [[2006 Bucknell|Bucknell]]
 
| [[2006 Davidson|Davidson]]
 
| [[2006 Davidson|Davidson]]
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| [[2007 Williams|Williams]]
 
| [[2007 Williams|Williams]]
 
| [[2007 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]]
 
| [[2007 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]]
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| [[2007 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]
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| [[2007 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]<ref name="combined"></ref>
 
| [[2007 UMBC|UMBC]]
 
| [[2007 UMBC|UMBC]]
 
| [[2007 Southern Virginia|Southern Virginia]]
 
| [[2007 Southern Virginia|Southern Virginia]]
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| [[2008 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]
 
| [[2008 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]
 
| [[2008 UMBC|UMBC]]
 
| [[2008 UMBC|UMBC]]
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| [[2008 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
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| [[2008 Georgetown College|Georgetown College]]
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| [[2008 Florida State|Florida State]]<ref>Florida State no-showed to the NCT. All of their games were recorded as losses with FSU scoring 0 points and each opponent scoring their tournament average PPG.</ref>
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| [[2008 Florida State|Florida State]]<ref name="FSU">Florida State no-showed to the NCT in 2008. All of their games were recorded as losses with FSU scoring 0 points and each opponent scoring their tournament average PPG. This is not counted as an NCT appearance in the table.</ref>
 
| [[2008 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 
| [[2008 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 
| [[2008 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 
| [[2008 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
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! Appearances<ref>Includes teams which lost at the "Sectional" level in 1986.</ref>
 
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| [[Brigham Young]] · [[Harvard]] · [[Princeton]] · [[Rice]]  
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| [[Brigham Young]] · [[Princeton]] · [[Rice]]  
 
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| [[Harvard]] · [[Virginia]]  
 
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| [[Iowa]] · [[Ohio State]] · [[Oklahoma]] · [[Washington]]  
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| [[Iowa]] · [[Ohio State]] · [[Oklahoma]]
 
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| [[George Washington]] · [[Georgetown]] · [[Indiana]] · [[Pittsburgh]] · [[Truman State]] · [[Williams]] · [[Wisconsin]]  
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| [[George Washington]] · [[Indiana]] · [[Pittsburgh]] · [[Truman State]] · [[Washington]] · [[Williams]]<ref name="Williams">The Williams team attended the NCT site in 1999 but was not permitted to participate in games due to their faculty sponsor failing to arrive. This is counted as a nationals appearance in the table.</ref> · [[Wisconsin]]  
 
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| [[Michigan State]] · [[MIT]] · [[North Carolina]] · [[Rochester]] · [[UCLA]]  
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| [[Georgetown]] · [[Michigan State]] · [[MIT]] · [[North Carolina]] · [[Rochester]] · [[UCLA]]  
 
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| [[Berkeley]] · [[Brandeis]] · [[Delaware]] · [[Florida State]] · [[Fresno State]] · [[Georgia]] · [[Illinois-Chicago]] · [[Johns Hopkins]] · [[Kansas]] · [[Oberlin]] · [[Pomona College]] · [[San Francisco State]] · [[SIU-Carbondale]] · [[St. Bonaventure]] · [[SUNY-Stony Brook]] · [[Temple]] · [[UMBC]] · [[USC]] · [[Valdosta State]] · [[Western Michigan]] · [[Wichita State]] · [[Yale]]  
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| [[Berkeley]] · [[Brandeis]] · [[Delaware]] · [[Fresno State]] · [[Georgia]] · [[Illinois-Chicago]] · [[Johns Hopkins]] · [[Kansas]] · [[Louisiana State]] · [[Oberlin]] · [[Pomona College]] · [[San Francisco State]] · [[SIU-Carbondale]] · [[St. Bonaventure]] · [[SUNY-Stony Brook]] · [[Temple]] · [[UMBC]] · [[USC]] · [[Valdosta State]] · [[Western Michigan]] · [[Wichita State]] · [[Yale]]  
 
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| [[Alabama]] · [[Alfred]] · [[Ball State]] · [[Boston University]] · [[Bucknell]] · [[Case Western]] · [[Centre]] · [[Charleston]] · [[Colorado State]] · [[Earlham]] · [[Eckerd]] · [[Georgia Southern-Armstrong]] · [[Harding]] · [[Houston]] · [[Illinois College]] · [[IUPUI]] · [[Louisiana State]] · [[Midwestern State]] · [[Missouri]] · [[Oklahoma Baptist]] · [[Pacific Lutheran]] · [[Penn State]] · [[Portland Community College-Sylvania]] · [[Rhodes]] · [[Roanoke]] · [[Rose-Hulman]] · [[San Jose State]] · [[South Carolina]] · [[South Dakota]] · [[Southern Virginia]] · [[SUNY-Albany]] · [[SUNY-Oneonta]] · [[Texas A&M]] · [[Texas Christian]] · [[UC-San Diego]] · [[UMass-Lowell]] · [[Wabash]] · [[Wake Forest]] · [[Washington State]] · [[Western Connecticut State]] · [[Western Oregon]] · [[Wofford]]  
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| [[Alabama]] · [[Alfred]] · [[Ball State]] · [[Boston University]] · [[Bucknell]] · [[Case Western]] · [[Centre]] · [[Charleston]] · [[Colorado State]] · [[Earlham]] · [[Eckerd]] · [[Florida State]]<ref name="FSU">Florida State no-showed to the NCT in 2008. All of their games were recorded as losses with FSU scoring 0 points and each opponent scoring their tournament average PPG. This is not counted as an NCT appearance in the table.</ref> · [[Georgia Southern-Armstrong]] · [[Georgetown College]] · [[Harding]] · [[Houston]] · [[Illinois College]] · [[IUPUI]]· [[Midwestern State]] · [[Missouri]] · [[Oklahoma Baptist]] · [[Pacific Lutheran]] · [[Penn State]] · [[Portland Community College-Sylvania]] · [[Rhodes]] · [[Roanoke]] · [[Rose-Hulman]] · [[San Jose State]] · [[South Carolina]] · [[South Dakota]] · [[Southern Virginia]] · [[SUNY-Albany]] · [[SUNY-Oneonta]] · [[Texas A&M]] · [[Texas Christian]] · [[UC-San Diego]] · [[UMass-Lowell]] · [[Wabash]] · [[Wake Forest]] · [[Washington State]] · [[Western Connecticut State]] · [[Western Oregon]] · [[Wofford]]  
 
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Latest revision as of 03:04, 17 September 2024

The National Championship Tournament (NCT) was held annually by the College Bowl Company, Inc., to determine its format's national title during the company's affiliation with ACUI from 1977-1978 to 2007-2008. Occasional matches appeared on radio or TV during that time.

The College Bowl-ACUI program was discontinued after 2008. College Bowl continued to offer products to limited markets such as the HCASC and the 2021 College Bowl TV Show, but has not staged a competition for the general college level since the end of the ACUI partnership.

Tournament/field quality

For a full discussion of the mainstream quizbowl community's issues with the College Bowl program and the reasons for teams choosing not to participate, see the main page for College Bowl as a whole. This page is focused on the National Championship Tournament specifically.

By 1990, several major contenders in ACF and, ultimately, NAQT tournaments such as Maryland, Tennessee, and Georgia Tech no longer participated in College Bowl. By 2000 the only regular participants in College Bowl among the top tier of quizbowl teams were Chicago and Michigan, who themselves did not compete after the 2003-2004 season, and who never sent their best possible lineups to the tournament after 1998, due to a combination of the grad student restriction and individual players not wishing to play College Bowl. In the last eleven instances of the NCT, the only serious ICT or ACF title contenders who sent their best player lineups to College Bowl NCT were 2006 UCLA and Chicago's 1998 team, though other Chicago and Michigan lineups often won the NCT even without the top players from those clubs. The field quality below the top 4 was also very weak compared to other nationals due to the qualification system.

ACUI Regional System

During the time of the ACUI/College Bowl affiliation, ACUI was divided into 16 geographical regions. Regions 1-15 covered all areas of the United States and Canada. Region 16, for Australia, New Zealand, and "the Far East," never participated in College Bowl.

Generally, each region held a tournament and the champion qualified for NCT. Except in 2003 (when only the 15 regional champions were invited), 1986 (when an intermediate "sectional" stage was used), and 1980 and 1981 (when 9 wild cards were invited to create a 24-team, multi-stage national tournament) the NCT field selected a 16th team by picking one regional runner-up as a wild card. The process for choosing the wild card was purported to be a random draw, though some questioned whether teams were actually chosen for other reasons. Though almost all NCTs had a 16-team field, the specific tournament format varied often, as noted below.

From 2005 to 2007, the region 3 and 4 tournaments were combined in one, single-site event, with the highest-finishing teams from each region in the overall field each receiving NCT bids.

ACUI's region system continued to influence tournament placement and nationals qualification during ACUI's affiliation with NAQT from 2010-2013, though with significantly less rigidity than during the College Bowl era. Since the end of ACUI involvement in quizbowl in 2013, they have reorganized into an 8-region system.

College Bowl NCT top finishers/locations

Year Champion Second Place Third Place Fourth Place Host Tournament format[1] Stats
1978 Stanford Yale Cornell Oberlin Probably the WTVJ studio in Miami[2] "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv"
1979 Davidson Harvard[3] Oberlin Cornell Probably the WTVJ studio in Miami[4] "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv"
1980 Fresno State WUSTL MIT Washington State Marshall and WUSTL "24-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio in 2 phases"
1981 Maryland Davidson Marshall Michigan State Marshall "24-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio"
1982 North Carolina Rice WUSTL Vassar Probably the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City[5] "16-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio"
1983 no tournament
1984 Minnesota WUSTL Princeton Vassar Ohio State "16-team single-elimination tournament with final 3 games broadcast live as a one-hour NBC special"
1985 no tournament
1986 Wisconsin Princeton Georgia Tech Utah Georgia Tech "sectionals & 4-team double-elimination finals"
1987 Minnesota Georgia Tech NC State Western Connecticut State Disney World, Orlando "16-team single-elimination tournament taped for television"
1988 NC State Emory Princeton Kent State UIC "16-team double elimination tournament with best 2-of-3 finals"
1989 Minnesota Georgia Tech Kent State George Washington DuPage "16-team double elimination tournament with best 2-of-3 finals"
1990 Chicago MIT George Washington Rice Minnesota "16-team double elimination tournament with best 2-of-3 finals"
1991 Rice Cornell Minnesota Wisconsin UIC "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
1992 MIT Stanford Penn Cornell George Washington "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
1993 Virginia Michigan Chicago Harvard USC "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff" Partial stats (standings & game scores)
1994 Chicago Virginia Brigham Young George Washington Florida "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff" Stats
1995 Harvard Chicago Michigan Brigham Young Akron "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff" Stats
1996 Michigan Virginia Princeton Cornell Arizona State "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff" Stats
1997 Virginia Harvard Oklahoma Chicago Montclair State "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff" Stats
1998 Michigan Cornell Stanford Chicago Texas-Dallas 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals Stats
1999 Chicago Michigan Minnesota Virginia Tech Florida 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals Standings only
2000 Michigan Arkansas Williams Florida Bentley 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals Stats
2001 Michigan Chicago Texas Cornell Cal State-LA 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals Stats
2002 Michigan UCLA Florida Providence Kansas State 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals Stats
2003 Chicago Florida Rochester UCLA Penn 15-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4 Stats
2004 Minnesota Michigan Florida Georgetown Auburn-Montgomery 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4 Stats
2005 Minnesota Rochester Stanford Truman State University of Washington 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4 Stats
2006 UCLA Illinois WUSTL Minnesota Hartford 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4 Stats
2007 Minnesota USC Williams Baylor USC 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4 Stats
2008 Rochester New Mexico Minnesota Ohio State Macalester 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4 Stats

Regional champions & wild cards

Except as discussed in footnotes and other text below, the set of "regional champions & wild card teams" for each year also comprises that year's list of NCT participants.

Year Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4 Region 5 Region 6 Region 7 Region 8 Region 9 Region 10 Region 11 Region 12 Region 13 Region 14 Region 15 Wild card
1978 Yale Cornell Rutgers-Newark Charleston North Carolina Eckerd Michigan State Wisconsin-Eau Claire Illinois Iowa WUSTL Tulane Brigham Young Puget Sound Stanford Oberlin (R7)
1979 Harvard Cornell Rutgers-Newark Marshall Davidson Emory Oberlin Wisconsin-Eau Claire Notre Dame Iowa WUSTL Tulane Brigham Young Pacific Lutheran San Francisco State SIU-Carbondale (R9)
1980 MIT SUNY-Oneonta Rutgers-Newark Maryland North Carolina Emory Ohio State Chicago Purdue Iowa State WUSTL Rice Utah Washington State Fresno State See note[6]
1981 Harvard Vassar Princeton Maryland North Carolina Berry Michigan State Chicago Illinois Iowa WUSTL Tulane Brigham Young Idaho San Francisco State See note[7]
1982 Harvard Vassar Temple Maryland North Carolina Alabama Michigan State Wisconsin Purdue Minnesota WUSTL Rice Brigham Young Puget Sound Fresno State Wisconsin-Eau Claire (R8)
1983[8] Harvard Maryland North Carolina Georgia Tech Wisconsin Earlham Minnesota WUSTL Brigham Young Puget Sound[9] See note on 1983 tournament
1984 Brandeis Vassar Princeton Maryland North Carolina Georgia Southern-Armstrong[10] Michigan Chicago Indiana Minnesota WUSTL Texas Arizona Idaho San Jose State Berkeley (R15)
1985[11] Connecticut Syracuse Princeton Georgetown Duke Emory Ohio State Wisconsin Notre Dame Carleton WUSTL Tulane Utah Idaho Berkeley See note on 1985 tournament
1986 Dartmouth Rochester Princeton Georgetown Vanderbilt Georgia Tech Case Western Wisconsin Indiana Minnesota Kansas Texas A&M Utah Alaska UC-Irvine See note[12]
1987 Western Connecticut State Cornell NYU Georgetown NC State Georgia Tech Ohio State Wisconsin Notre Dame Minnesota WUSTL Louisiana State Utah Idaho UC-Irvine Kansas (R11)
1988 Harvard/MIT[13] Cornell Princeton Georgetown NC State Emory Kent State Chicago Indiana Minnesota WUSTL Rice Utah Washington/None[13] UC-San Diego Syracuse (R2), Louisiana State (R12)[13]
1989 Brandeis Cornell Princeton George Washington Virginia Georgia Tech Kent State Chicago Illinois Minnesota WUSTL Rice Utah Idaho Pomona College Michigan State (R7)
1990 MIT Cornell Penn George Washington NC State Florida State Kent State Chicago Illinois Minnesota WUSTL Rice Brigham Young Oregon UC-Irvine Berry (R6)
1991 Williams Cornell Penn Penn State Virginia Georgia State Michigan Wisconsin Illinois Minnesota Truman State[14] Rice Utah Oregon Stanford WUSTL (R11)
1992 MIT Cornell Penn Georgetown Virginia Georgia State Michigan Chicago Illinois Minnesota Truman State[14] Rice Brigham Young Oregon Stanford Iowa State (R10)
1993 Harvard SUNY-Albany Penn George Washington Virginia Berry Michigan Chicago Illinois Minnesota WUSTL Rice Brigham Young Puget Sound Stanford Cornell (R2)
1994 Dartmouth Cornell Princeton George Washington Virginia Georgia State Western Michigan Chicago Illinois Iowa State Truman State[14] Midwestern State Brigham Young Oregon Berkeley UT-Dallas (R12)
1995 Harvard Cornell Princeton George Washington Virginia Florida Michigan Chicago Illinois Iowa State Oklahoma UT-Dallas Brigham Young Alaska Stanford Alfred (R2)
1996 MIT Cornell Princeton Johns Hopkins Virginia Florida Western Michigan Chicago SIU-Carbondale Minnesota Oklahoma Houston Utah Portland Community College-Sylvania Stanford Michigan (R7)
1997 Harvard Cornell Princeton Johns Hopkins Virginia Florida Ohio State Chicago Indiana Iowa Oklahoma UT-Dallas Utah Washington Stanford Illinois-Chicago (R8)
1998 Harvard Cornell NYU Pittsburgh South Carolina Florida Michigan Chicago Indiana Minnesota WUSTL UT-Dallas Arizona State Washington Stanford Virginia Tech (R5)
1999 Williams[15] Cornell College of New Jersey George Washington Virginia Tech Berry Michigan Chicago Illinois College Iowa Wichita State Texas Arizona State Washington Stanford Minnesota (R10)
2000 Williams Cornell College of New Jersey Pittsburgh Rhodes Florida Michigan Wisconsin Indiana Iowa Oklahoma Arkansas Utah Alaska USC Chicago (R8)
2001 Williams Cornell Delaware Pittsburgh Centre Florida Michigan Chicago Wabash South Dakota Oklahoma Texas Utah Washington UCLA College of New Jersey (R3)
2002 Providence Rochester NYU Pittsburgh Roanoke Florida Michigan Chicago IUPUI Minnesota Oklahoma Arkansas Arizona Alaska UCLA WUSTL (R11)
2003 Boston University Rochester Delaware Pittsburgh Virginia Tech Florida Michigan Chicago Notre Dame Minnesota Oklahoma Arkansas Utah Montana State-Billings UCLA See note[16]
2004 Dartmouth Cornell SUNY-Stony Brook Georgetown Davidson Florida Michigan Chicago Rose-Hulman Minnesota Truman State Baylor Colorado State Washington UCLA Illinois-Chicago (R8)
2005 Williams Rochester SUNY-Stony Brook[17] Pittsburgh Wofford Georgia Michigan State Northwestern Illinois Minnesota Truman State Harding New Mexico Montana State-Billings Stanford Valdosta State (R6)
2006 UMass-Lowell St. Bonaventure Seton Hall[17] Bucknell Davidson Valdosta State Ohio State Northwestern Illinois Minnesota WUSTL Baylor Arizona Montana State-Billings UCLA New Mexico (R13)
2007 Williams St. Bonaventure Seton Hall[17] UMBC Southern Virginia Florida Ohio State Northwestern Purdue Minnesota Missouri Baylor New Mexico Washington USC Providence (R1)
2008 Providence Rochester Seton Hall UMBC Georgetown College Florida State[18] Ohio State Wisconsin Ball State Minnesota WUSTL Rice Arizona State Western Oregon Pomona College New Mexico (R13)

Teams by number of NCT appearances

Appearances[19] Team
20 Minnesota
19 Chicago
17 Cornell
16 WUSTL
13 Michigan
11 Illinois · Utah
10 Florida · Stanford
9 Brigham Young · Princeton · Rice
8 Harvard · Virginia
7 Iowa · Ohio State · Oklahoma
6 George Washington · Indiana · Pittsburgh · Truman State · Washington · Williams[15] · Wisconsin
5 Georgetown · Michigan State · MIT · North Carolina · Rochester · UCLA
4 Alaska · Berry · Davidson · Idaho · Iowa State · Maryland · New Mexico · Notre Dame · Oregon · Penn · UT-Dallas · Wisconsin-Eau Claire
3 Arizona · Arizona State · Arkansas · Baylor · College of New Jersey · Dartmouth · Emory · Georgia State · Georgia Tech · Kent State · Marshall · Montana State-Billings · NC State · Northwestern · NYU · Providence · Puget Sound · Purdue · Rutgers-Newark · Seton Hall · Texas · Tulane · UC-Irvine · Vanderbilt · Vassar · Virginia Tech
2 Berkeley · Brandeis · Delaware · Fresno State · Georgia · Illinois-Chicago · Johns Hopkins · Kansas · Louisiana State · Oberlin · Pomona College · San Francisco State · SIU-Carbondale · St. Bonaventure · SUNY-Stony Brook · Temple · UMBC · USC · Valdosta State · Western Michigan · Wichita State · Yale
1 Alabama · Alfred · Ball State · Boston University · Bucknell · Case Western · Centre · Charleston · Colorado State · Earlham · Eckerd · Florida State[18] · Georgia Southern-Armstrong · Georgetown College · Harding · Houston · Illinois College · IUPUI· Midwestern State · Missouri · Oklahoma Baptist · Pacific Lutheran · Penn State · Portland Community College-Sylvania · Rhodes · Roanoke · Rose-Hulman · San Jose State · South Carolina · South Dakota · Southern Virginia · SUNY-Albany · SUNY-Oneonta · Texas A&M · Texas Christian · UC-San Diego · UMass-Lowell · Wabash · Wake Forest · Washington State · Western Connecticut State · Western Oregon · Wofford

NCT medal count

Team Championships Second Place Finishes
(Total Top 2 Finishes) 		Third Place Finishes
(Total Top 3 Finishes) 		Fourth Place Finishes
(Total Top 4 Finishes)
Arkansas 0 1 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
Baylor 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Brigham Young 0 0 (0) 1 (1) 1 (2)
Chicago 4 2 (6) 1 (7) 2 (9)
Cornell 0 2 (2) 1 (3) 4 (7)
Davidson 1 1 (2) 0 (2) 0 (2)
Emory 0 1 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
Florida 0 1 (1) 2 (3) 1 (4)
Fresno State 1 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
George Washington 0 0 (0) 1 (1) 2 (3)
Georgetown 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Georgia Tech 0 2 (2) 1 (3) 0 (3)
Harvard 1 2 (3) 0 (3) 1 (4)
Illinois 0 1 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
Kent State 0 0 (0) 1 (1) 1 (2)
Marshall 0 0 (0) 1 (1) 0 (1)
Maryland 1 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
Michigan 5 3 (8) 1 (9) 0 (9)
Michigan State 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Minnesota 6 0 (6) 3 (9) 1 (10)
MIT 1 1 (2) 1 (3) 0 (3)
NC State 1 0 (1) 1 (2) 0 (2)
New Mexico 0 1 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
North Carolina 1 0 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
Oberlin 0 0 (0) 1 (1) 1 (2)
Ohio State 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Oklahoma 0 0 (0) 1 (1) 0 (1)
Penn 0 0 (0) 1 (1) 0 (1)
Princeton 0 1 (1) 3 (4) 0 (4)
Providence 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Rice 1 1 (2) 0 (2) 1 (3)
Rochester 1 1 (2) 1 (3) 0 (3)
Stanford 1 1 (2) 2 (4) 0 (4)
Texas 0 0 (0) 1 (1) 0 (1)
Truman State 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
UCLA 1 1 (2) 0 (2) 1 (3)
USC 0 1 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
Utah 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Vassar 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (2)
Virginia 2 2 (4) 0 (4) 0 (4)
Virginia Tech 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Washington State 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Western Connecticut State 0 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1)
Williams 0 0 (0) 2 (2) 0 (2)
Wisconsin 1 0 (1) 0 (1) 1 (2)
WUSTL 0 2 (2) 2 (4) 0 (4)
Yale 0 1 (1) 0 (1) 0 (1)
  1. ↑ Formats used for old NCTs: https://web.archive.org/web/19970506201422/http://www.collegebowl.com/archives/archnct.html
  2. ↑ The tournament was produced for CBS television and was advertised as being held "in Miami." WTVJ was the Miami CBS affiliate at the time and had a production studio with significant capabilities compared to most local stations, so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it.
  3. ↑ This team is denoted "Harvard-Radcliffe" in some sources. Harvard and Radcliffe began a formal affiliation in 1977 and merged into one university in 1999. Most likely, some students who began their university careers at an independent Radcliffe College did in fact play on this team.
  4. ↑ The tournament was produced for CBS television and was advertised as being held "in Miami." WTVJ was the Miami CBS affiliate at the time and had a production studio with significant capabilities compared to most local stations, so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it. One participant recalls playing the event at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel, though that same account misremembers the Miami NCT as being held in 1980, so it is not clear if this is a reliable memory.
  5. ↑ The tournament was produced for CBS radio and was advertised as being held "in New York," so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it.
  6. ↑ This was one of the two years in which the NCT used a 3-stage, 24-team format. The additional teams invited besides the 15 regional champions were Earlham, Harvard, Marshall, Oklahoma Baptist, Texas Christian, Georgia, Iowa, Notre Dame, and Vanderbilt.
  7. ↑ This was one of the two years in which the NCT used a 3-stage, 24-team format. The additional teams invited besides the 15 regional champions were Davidson, Marshall, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Temple, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Wichita State, and Yale.
  8. ↑ The NCT was not held in 1983. As best as can be determined, a full set of Regional tournaments was run, but the complete list of winners is not preserved anywhere, and no wild-card team was named. 1983 teams are not counted as nationals appearances in the table.
  9. ↑ Some sources list the University of Idaho as winning this tournament. As there was no 1983 national, the discrepancy cannot be explained by the winning team declining their bid and being replaced, and is most likely a mistake. The best judgment of which article is more reliable indicates that Puget Sound probably won.
  10. ↑ "Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus" is the current full name of the school that was known as "Armstrong State College" at the time of this tournament.
  11. ↑ The NCT was not held in 1985. As best as can be determined, no wild-card team was named. 1985 teams are not counted as nationals appearances in the table.
  12. ↑ This year used a "sectional" stage between the RCT and NCT. Only the top four teams, presumably the sectional champions, actually participated in the final national stage. Whether any teams beyond the 15 regional champions were invited to participate in the sectionals has not been determined; thus, it is possible there was no wild card in this year.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 The Region 1 champion Harvard and the Region 14 champion Washington declined to attend the NCT. Harvard was replaced by runner-up MIT. Washington's spot was offered to the (unrecorded) second-place finisher, who also declined. To fill the remaining spot, a second wild-card draw was held. In addition to the original wild-card bid for Syracuse, region 12 runner-up LSU attended the tournament as the final replacement team as a result of the second draw.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 The school now known as Truman State University was called Northeast Missouri State University until June 1996.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Williams team attended the NCT site in 1999 but was not permitted to participate in games due to their faculty sponsor failing to arrive. This is counted as a nationals appearance in the table.
  16. ↑ There was no wild card team in 2003. The tournament ran with 15 teams.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 From 2005 to 2007, Region 3 and Region 4 ran a combined tournament. The overall winner, plus the highest-finishing team from the other region, received NCT bids. In all three years, the Region 4 team actually won. 2005 Stony Brook, 2006 Seton Hall, and 2007 Seton Hall received NCT bids as the highest-finishing Region 3 teams in each year.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Florida State no-showed to the NCT in 2008. All of their games were recorded as losses with FSU scoring 0 points and each opponent scoring their tournament average PPG. This is not counted as an NCT appearance in the table.
  19. ↑ Includes teams which lost at the "Sectional" level in 1986.
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