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The '''National Championship Tournament''' ('''NCT''') was held annually by the [[College Bowl]] Company, Inc., to determine its format's national title.
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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.
  
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College Bowl conducted the NCT from 1978 to 2008, with occasional matches appearing on radio or TV during that time. In most of the later tournaments, the champions of each of the fifteen ACUI region tournaments, as well as one second-place finisher chosen at "random," were invited to the NCT, held on a different ACUI-affiliated college campus each year. Earlier tournaments used a variety of other formats.
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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.
  
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There will be no NCT for at least the 2009 nationals season, as College Bowl has suspended its general competition program.
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==Tournament/field quality==
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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.
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==ACUI Regional System==
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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==
 
==College Bowl NCT top finishers/locations==
  
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! Year
 
! Year
 
! Champion
 
! Champion
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! Second
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! Second Place
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! Third
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! Third Place
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! Fourth
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! Fourth Place
 
! Host
 
! Host
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! Tournament format<ref>Formats used for old NCTs: https://web.archive.org/web/19970506201422/http://www.collegebowl.com/archives/archnct.html</ref>
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! Stats
 
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| [[1978 NCT|1978]]
 
| [[1978 NCT|1978]]
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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>
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| "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv"
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| [[1979 NCT|1979]]
 
| [[1979 NCT|1979]]
 
| [[1979 Davidson|Davidson]]
 
| [[1979 Davidson|Davidson]]
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| [[1979 Harvard|Harvard-Radcliffe]]
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| [[1979 Harvard|Harvard]]<ref>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.</ref>
 
| [[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>
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| "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv"
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| [[1980 NCT|1980]]
 
| [[1980 NCT|1980]]
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| [[1980 Washington State|Washington State]]
 
| [[1980 Washington State|Washington State]]
 
| Marshall and [[WUSTL]]
 
| Marshall and [[WUSTL]]
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| "24-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio in 2 phases"
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|-
 
| [[1981 NCT|1981]]
 
| [[1981 NCT|1981]]
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| [[1981 Michigan State|Michigan State]]
 
| [[1981 Michigan State|Michigan State]]
 
| Marshall
 
| Marshall
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| "24-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio"
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| [[1982 NCT|1982]]
 
| [[1982 NCT|1982]]
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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>
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| "16-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio"
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| 1983
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!colspan="7" |no tournament
 
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| [[1984 NCT|1984]]
 
| [[1984 NCT|1984]]
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| [[1984 Princeton|Princeton]]
 
| [[1984 Princeton|Princeton]]
 
| [[1984 Vassar|Vassar]]
 
| [[1984 Vassar|Vassar]]
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| [[Ohio State]] (Tournament was not held in 1983)
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| [[Ohio State]]
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| "16-team single-elimination tournament with final 3 games broadcast live as a one-hour NBC special"
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| 1985
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!colspan="7" |no tournament
 
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| [[1986 NCT|1986]]
 
| [[1986 NCT|1986]]
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| [[1986 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]
 
| [[1986 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]
 
| [[1986 Utah|Utah]]
 
| [[1986 Utah|Utah]]
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| [[Georgia Tech]] (Tournament was not held in 1985)
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| [[Georgia Tech]]
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| "sectionals & 4-team double-elimination finals"
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|-
 
| [[1987 NCT|1987]]
 
| [[1987 NCT|1987]]
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| [[1987 Western Connecticut State|Western Connecticut State]]
 
| [[1987 Western Connecticut State|Western Connecticut State]]
 
| Disney World, Orlando
 
| Disney World, Orlando
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| "16-team single-elimination tournament taped for television"
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|-
 
|-
 
| [[1988 NCT|1988]]
 
| [[1988 NCT|1988]]
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| [[1988 Kent State|Kent State]]
 
| [[1988 Kent State|Kent State]]
 
| [[UIC]]
 
| [[UIC]]
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| "16-team double elimination tournament with best 2-of-3 finals"
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| [[1989 NCT|1989]]
 
| [[1989 NCT|1989]]
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| [[1989 George Washington|George Washington]]
 
| [[1989 George Washington|George Washington]]
 
| DuPage
 
| DuPage
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| "16-team double elimination tournament with best 2-of-3 finals"
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| [[1990 NCT|1990]]
 
| [[1990 NCT|1990]]
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| [[1990 Rice|Rice]]
 
| [[1990 Rice|Rice]]
 
| [[Minnesota]]
 
| [[Minnesota]]
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| "16-team double elimination tournament with best 2-of-3 finals"
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| [[1991 NCT|1991]]
 
| [[1991 NCT|1991]]
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| [[1991 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 
| [[1991 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 
| [[UIC]]
 
| [[UIC]]
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| "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
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| [[1992 NCT|1992]]
 
| [[1992 NCT|1992]]
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| [[1992 Cornell|Cornell]]  
 
| [[1992 Cornell|Cornell]]  
 
| [[George Washington]]
 
| [[George Washington]]
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| "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
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| [[1993 NCT|1993]]
 
| [[1993 NCT|1993]]
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| [[1993 Harvard|Harvard]]
 
| [[1993 Harvard|Harvard]]
 
| [[USC]]
 
| [[USC]]
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| "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
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| [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.college.college-bowl/2vcB9OtdHXw/Ayr-kKTypxgJ Partial stats (standings & game scores)]
 
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| [[1994 NCT|1994]]
 
| [[1994 NCT|1994]]
 
| [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]]
 
| [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]]
 
| [[1994 Virginia|Virginia]]
 
| [[1994 Virginia|Virginia]]
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| [[1994 BYU|BYU]]
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| [[1994 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 
| [[1994 George Washington|George Washington]]
 
| [[1994 George Washington|George Washington]]
 
| [[Florida]]
 
| [[Florida]]
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| "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/19970427082657/http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/~dct/college-bowl/nationals-94.html Stats]
 
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| [[1995 NCT|1995]]
 
| [[1995 NCT|1995]]
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| [[1995 Chicago|Chicago]]   
 
| [[1995 Chicago|Chicago]]   
 
| [[1995 Michigan|Michigan]]  
 
| [[1995 Michigan|Michigan]]  
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| [[1995 BYU|BYU]]  
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| [[1995 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]  
 
| Akron
 
| Akron
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| "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/19990202130820/http://www.northcoast.com/~dctuttle/college-bowl/nationals-95.html Stats]
 
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| [[1996 NCT|1996]]
 
| [[1996 NCT|1996]]
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| [[1996 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[1996 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[Arizona State]]
 
| [[Arizona State]]
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| "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/19990202145416/http://www.northcoast.com/~dctuttle/college-bowl/nationals-96.html Stats]
 
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| [[1997 NCT|1997]]
 
| [[1997 NCT|1997]]
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| [[1997 Chicago|Chicago]]
 
| [[1997 Chicago|Chicago]]
 
| Montclair State
 
| Montclair State
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| "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff"
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/19980201140138/http://collegebowl.com/nct/97results.html Stats]
 
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| [[1998 NCT|1998]]
 
| [[1998 NCT|1998]]
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| [[1998 Chicago|Chicago]]
 
| [[1998 Chicago|Chicago]]
 
| [[Texas-Dallas]]
 
| [[Texas-Dallas]]
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/19980423064350/http://collegebowl.com/nct/98results.html Stats]
 
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| [[1999 NCT|1999]]
 
| [[1999 NCT|1999]]
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| [[1999 Virginia Tech|Virginia Tech]]
 
| [[1999 Virginia Tech|Virginia Tech]]
 
| [[Florida]]
 
| [[Florida]]
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals
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| [http://collegebowl.com/nationalresultrpt.asp Standings only]
 
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| [[2000 NCT|2000]]
 
| [[2000 NCT|2000]]
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| [[2000 Florida|Florida]]
 
| [[2000 Florida|Florida]]
 
| Bentley
 
| Bentley
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20000925183158/http://www.collegebowl.com/cbowl/nct/00nct/results.html Stats]
 
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| [[2001 NCT|2001]]
 
| [[2001 NCT|2001]]
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| [[2001 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| [[2001 Cornell|Cornell]]
 
| Cal State-LA
 
| Cal State-LA
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20020505182333/http://www.collegebowl.com/cbowl/nct/01nct/results.shtml Stats]
 
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| [[2002 NCT|2002]]
 
| [[2002 NCT|2002]]
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| [[2002 Providence|Providence]]
 
| [[2002 Providence|Providence]]
 
| Kansas State
 
| Kansas State
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 finals
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20030218131141/http://www.collegebowl.com/cb/nct/02/results.html Stats]
 
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| [[2003 NCT|2003]]
 
| [[2003 NCT|2003]]
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| [[2003 UCLA|UCLA]]
 
| [[2003 UCLA|UCLA]]
 
| [[Penn]]
 
| [[Penn]]
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| 15-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828185042/http://collegebowl.com/nct03/results.asp Stats]
 
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| [[2004 NCT|2004]]
 
| [[2004 NCT|2004]]
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| [[2004 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
 
| [[2004 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
 
| [[Auburn-Montgomery]]
 
| [[Auburn-Montgomery]]
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4
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| [http://www.collegebowl.com/nct04/results.asp Stats]
 
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| [[2005 NCT|2005]]
 
| [[2005 NCT|2005]]
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| [[2005 Stanford|Stanford]]
 
| [[2005 Stanford|Stanford]]
 
| [[2005 Truman State|Truman State]]
 
| [[2005 Truman State|Truman State]]
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| [[Washington]]
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| [[University of Washington]]
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4
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| [http://www.collegebowl.com/nct05/results.asp Stats]
 
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| [[2006 NCT|2006]]
 
| [[2006 NCT|2006]]
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| [[2006 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 
| [[2006 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 
| Hartford
 
| Hartford
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4
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| [http://www.collegebowl.com/nct06/results.asp Stats]
 
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| [[2007 NCT|2007]]
 
| [[2007 NCT|2007]]
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| [[2007 Baylor|Baylor]]
 
| [[2007 Baylor|Baylor]]
 
| [[USC]]
 
| [[USC]]
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4
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| [http://www.collegebowl.com/nct07/results.asp Stats]
 
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| [[2008 NCT|2008]]
 
| [[2008 NCT|2008]]
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| [[2008 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 
| [[2008 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 
| [[Macalester]]
 
| [[Macalester]]
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| 16-team full round robin tournament with double-elim playoff among top 4
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| [http://www.collegebowl.com/nct08/results.asp Stats]
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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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! Year
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! Region 1
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! Region 2
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! Region 3
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! Region 4
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! Region 5
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! Region 6
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! Region 7
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! Region 8
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! Region 9
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! Region 10
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! Region 11
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! Region 12
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! Region 13
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! Region 14
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! Region 15
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! Wild card
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| [[1978 NCT|1978]]
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| [[1978 Yale|Yale]]
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| [[1978 Cornell|Cornell]]
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| [[1978 Rutgers-Newark|Rutgers-Newark]]
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| [[1978 Charleston|Charleston]]
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| [[1978 North Carolina|North Carolina]]
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| [[1978 Eckerd|Eckerd]]
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| [[1978 Michigan State|Michigan State]]
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| [[1978 Wisconsin-Eau Claire|Wisconsin-Eau Claire]]
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| [[1978 Illinois|Illinois]]
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| [[1978 Iowa|Iowa]]
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| [[1978 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
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| [[1978 Tulane|Tulane]]
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| [[1978 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
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| [[1978 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]]
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| [[1978 Stanford|Stanford]]
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| [[1978 Oberlin|Oberlin]] (R7)
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| [[1979 NCT|1979]]
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| [[1979 Harvard|Harvard]]
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| [[1979 Cornell|Cornell]]
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| [[1979 Rutgers-Newark|Rutgers-Newark]]
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| [[1979 Marshall|Marshall]]
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| [[1979 Davidson|Davidson]]
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| [[1979 Emory|Emory]]
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| [[1979 Oberlin|Oberlin]]
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| [[1979 Wisconsin-Eau Claire|Wisconsin-Eau Claire]]
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| [[1979 Notre Dame|Notre Dame]]
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| [[1979 Iowa|Iowa]]
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| [[1979 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
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| [[1979 Tulane|Tulane]]
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| [[1979 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
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| [[1979 Pacific Lutheran|Pacific Lutheran]]
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| [[1979 San Francisco State|San Francisco State]]
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| [[1979 SIU-Carbondale|SIU-Carbondale]] (R9)
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| [[1980 NCT|1980]]
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| [[1980 MIT|MIT]]
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| [[1980 SUNY-Oneonta|SUNY-Oneonta]]
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| [[1980 Rutgers-Newark|Rutgers-Newark]]
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| [[1980 Maryland|Maryland]]
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| [[1980 North Carolina|North Carolina]]
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| [[1980 Emory|Emory]]
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| [[1980 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
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| [[1980 Chicago|Chicago]]
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| [[1980 Purdue|Purdue]]
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| [[1980 Iowa State|Iowa State]]
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| [[1980 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
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| [[1980 Rice|Rice]]
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| [[1980 Utah|Utah]]
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| [[1980 Washington State|Washington State]]
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| [[1980 Fresno State|Fresno State]]
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| See note<ref>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 [[1980 Earlham|Earlham]], [[1980 Harvard|Harvard]], [[1980 Marshall|Marshall]], [[1980 Oklahoma Baptist|Oklahoma Baptist]], [[1980 Texas Christian|Texas Christian]], [[1980 Georgia|Georgia]], [[1980 Iowa|Iowa]], [[1980 Notre Dame|Notre Dame]], and [[1980 Vanderbilt|Vanderbilt]].</ref>
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| [[1981 NCT|1981]]
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| [[1981 Harvard|Harvard]]
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| [[1981 Vassar|Vassar]]
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| [[1981 Princeton|Princeton]]
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| [[1981 Maryland|Maryland]]
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| [[1981 North Carolina|North Carolina]]
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| [[1981 Berry|Berry]]
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| [[1981 Michigan State|Michigan State]]
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| [[1981 Chicago|Chicago]]
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| [[1981 Illinois|Illinois]]
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| [[1981 Iowa|Iowa]]
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| [[1981 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
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| [[1981 Tulane|Tulane]]
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| [[1981 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
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| [[1981 Idaho|Idaho]]
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| [[1981 San Francisco State|San Francisco State]]
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| See note<ref>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 [[1981 Davidson|Davidson]], [[1981 Marshall|Marshall]], [[1981 Wisconsin-Eau Claire|Wisconsin-Eau Claire]], [[1981 Temple|Temple]], [[1981 Ohio State|Ohio State]], [[1981 Vanderbilt|Vanderbilt]], [[1981 Wake Forest|Wake Forest]], [[1981 Wichita State|Wichita State]], and [[1981 Yale|Yale]].
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| [[1982 NCT|1982]]
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| [[1982 Harvard|Harvard]]
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| [[1982 Vassar|Vassar]]
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| [[1982 Temple|Temple]]
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| [[1982 Maryland|Maryland]]
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| [[1982 North Carolina|North Carolina]]
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| [[1982 Alabama|Alabama]]
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| [[1982 Michigan State|Michigan State]]
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| [[1982 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
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| [[1982 Purdue|Purdue]]
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| [[1982 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
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| [[1982 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
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| [[1982 Rice|Rice]]
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| [[1982 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
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| [[1982 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]]
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| [[1982 Fresno State|Fresno State]]
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| [[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]]
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| [[1984 Brandeis|Brandeis]]
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| [[1984 Vassar|Vassar]]
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| [[1984 Princeton|Princeton]]
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| [[1984 Maryland|Maryland]]
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| [[1984 North Carolina|North Carolina]]
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| [[1984 Georgia Southern-Armstrong|Georgia Southern-Armstrong]]<ref>"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.</ref>
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| [[1984 Michigan|Michigan]]
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| [[1984 Chicago|Chicago]]
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| [[1984 Indiana|Indiana]]
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| [[1984 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
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| [[1984 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
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| [[1984 Texas|Texas]]
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| [[1984 Arizona|Arizona]]
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| [[1984 Idaho|Idaho]]
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| [[1984 San Jose State|San Jose State]]
 +
| [[1984 Berkeley|Berkeley]] (R15)
 +
|-
 +
| 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>
 +
| [[1985 Connecticut|Connecticut]]
 +
| [[1985 Syracuse|Syracuse]]
 +
| [[1985 Princeton|Princeton]]
 +
| [[1985 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
 +
| [[1985 Duke|Duke]]
 +
| [[1985 Emory|Emory]]
 +
| [[1985 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 +
| [[1985 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 +
| [[1985 Notre Dame|Notre Dame]]
 +
| [[1985 Carleton|Carleton]]
 +
| [[1985 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[1985 Tulane|Tulane]]
 +
| [[1985 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[1985 Idaho|Idaho]]
 +
| [[1985 Berkeley|Berkeley]]
 +
| See note on 1985 tournament
 +
|-
 +
| [[1986 NCT|1986]]
 +
| [[1986 Dartmouth|Dartmouth]]
 +
| [[1986 Rochester|Rochester]]
 +
| [[1986 Princeton|Princeton]]
 +
| [[1986 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
 +
| [[1986 Vanderbilt|Vanderbilt]]
 +
| [[1986 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]
 +
| [[1986 Case Western|Case Western]]
 +
| [[1986 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 +
| [[1986 Indiana|Indiana]]
 +
| [[1986 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[1986 Kansas|Kansas]]
 +
| [[1986 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]
 +
| [[1986 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[1986 Alaska|Alaska]]
 +
| [[1986 UC-Irvine|UC-Irvine]]
 +
| See note<ref>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.</ref>
 +
|-
 +
| [[1987 NCT|1987]]
 +
| [[1987 Western Connecticut State|Western Connecticut State]]
 +
| [[1987 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1987 NYU|NYU]]
 +
| [[1987 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
 +
| [[1987 NC State|NC State]]
 +
| [[1987 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]
 +
| [[1987 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 +
| [[1987 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 +
| [[1987 Notre Dame|Notre Dame]]
 +
| [[1987 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[1987 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[1987 Louisiana State|Louisiana State]]
 +
| [[1987 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[1987 Idaho|Idaho]]
 +
| [[1987 UC-Irvine|UC-Irvine]]
 +
| [[1987 Kansas|Kansas]] (R11)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1988 NCT|1988]]
 +
| [[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 Princeton|Princeton]]
 +
| [[1988 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
 +
| [[1988 NC State|NC State]]
 +
| [[1988 Emory|Emory]]
 +
| [[1988 Kent State|Kent State]]
 +
| [[1988 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1988 Indiana|Indiana]]
 +
| [[1988 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[1988 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[1988 Rice|Rice]]
 +
| [[1988 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[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 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>
 +
|-
 +
| [[1989 NCT|1989]]
 +
| [[1989 Brandeis|Brandeis]]
 +
| [[1989 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1989 Princeton|Princeton]]
 +
| [[1989 George Washington|George Washington]]
 +
| [[1989 Virginia|Virginia]]
 +
| [[1989 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]
 +
| [[1989 Kent State|Kent State]]
 +
| [[1989 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1989 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[1989 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[1989 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[1989 Rice|Rice]]
 +
| [[1989 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[1989 Idaho|Idaho]]
 +
| [[1989 Pomona College|Pomona College]]
 +
| [[1989 Michigan State|Michigan State]] (R7)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1990 NCT|1990]]
 +
| [[1990 MIT|MIT]]
 +
| [[1990 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1990 Penn|Penn]]
 +
| [[1990 George Washington|George Washington]]
 +
| [[1990 NC State|NC State]]
 +
| [[1990 Florida State|Florida State]]
 +
| [[1990 Kent State|Kent State]]
 +
| [[1990 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1990 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[1990 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[1990 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[1990 Rice|Rice]]
 +
| [[1990 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 +
| [[1990 Oregon|Oregon]]
 +
| [[1990 UC-Irvine|UC-Irvine]]
 +
| [[1990 Berry|Berry]] (R6)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1991 NCT|1991]]
 +
| [[1991 Williams|Williams]]
 +
| [[1991 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1991 Penn|Penn]]
 +
| [[1991 Penn State|Penn State]]
 +
| [[1991 Virginia|Virginia]]
 +
| [[1991 Georgia State|Georgia State]]
 +
| [[1991 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[1991 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 +
| [[1991 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[1991 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[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 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[1991 Oregon|Oregon]]
 +
| [[1991 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[1991 WUSTL|WUSTL]] (R11)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1992 NCT|1992]]
 +
| [[1992 MIT|MIT]]
 +
| [[1992 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1992 Penn|Penn]]
 +
| [[1992 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
 +
| [[1992 Virginia|Virginia]]
 +
| [[1992 Georgia State|Georgia State]]
 +
| [[1992 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[1992 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1992 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[1992 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[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 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 +
| [[1992 Oregon|Oregon]]
 +
| [[1992 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[1992 Iowa State|Iowa State]] (R10)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1993 NCT|1993]]
 +
| [[1993 Harvard|Harvard]]
 +
| [[1993 SUNY-Albany|SUNY-Albany]]
 +
| [[1993 Penn|Penn]]
 +
| [[1993 George Washington|George Washington]]
 +
| [[1993 Virginia|Virginia]]
 +
| [[1993 Berry|Berry]]
 +
| [[1993 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[1993 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1993 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[1993 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[1993 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[1993 Rice|Rice]]
 +
| [[1993 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 +
| [[1993 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]]
 +
| [[1993 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[1993 Cornell|Cornell]] (R2)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1994 NCT|1994]]
 +
| [[1994 Dartmouth|Dartmouth]]
 +
| [[1994 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1994 Princeton|Princeton]]
 +
| [[1994 George Washington|George Washington]]
 +
| [[1994 Virginia|Virginia]]
 +
| [[1994 Georgia State|Georgia State]]
 +
| [[1994 Western Michigan|Western Michigan]]
 +
| [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1994 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[1994 Iowa State|Iowa State]]
 +
| [[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 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 +
| [[1994 Oregon|Oregon]]
 +
| [[1994 Berkeley|Berkeley]]
 +
| [[1994 UT-Dallas|UT-Dallas]] (R12)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1995 NCT|1995]]
 +
| [[1995 Harvard|Harvard]]
 +
| [[1995 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1995 Princeton|Princeton]]
 +
| [[1995 George Washington|George Washington]]
 +
| [[1995 Virginia|Virginia]]
 +
| [[1995 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[1995 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[1995 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1995 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[1995 Iowa State|Iowa State]]
 +
| [[1995 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]
 +
| [[1995 UT-Dallas|UT-Dallas]]
 +
| [[1995 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]
 +
| [[1995 Alaska|Alaska]]
 +
| [[1995 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[1995 Alfred|Alfred]] (R2)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1996 NCT|1996]]
 +
| [[1996 MIT|MIT]]
 +
| [[1996 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1996 Princeton|Princeton]]
 +
| [[1996 Johns Hopkins|Johns Hopkins]]
 +
| [[1996 Virginia|Virginia]]
 +
| [[1996 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[1996 Western Michigan|Western Michigan]]
 +
| [[1996 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1996 SIU-Carbondale|SIU-Carbondale]]
 +
| [[1996 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[1996 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]
 +
| [[1996 Houston|Houston]]
 +
| [[1996 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[1996 Portland Community College-Sylvania|Portland Community College-Sylvania]]
 +
| [[1996 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[1996 Michigan|Michigan]] (R7)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1997 NCT|1997]]
 +
| [[1997 Harvard|Harvard]]
 +
| [[1997 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1997 Princeton|Princeton]]
 +
| [[1997 Johns Hopkins|Johns Hopkins]]
 +
| [[1997 Virginia|Virginia]]
 +
| [[1997 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[1997 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 +
| [[1997 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1997 Indiana|Indiana]]
 +
| [[1997 Iowa|Iowa]]
 +
| [[1997 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]
 +
| [[1997 UT-Dallas|UT-Dallas]]
 +
| [[1997 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[1997 Washington|Washington]]
 +
| [[1997 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[1997 Illinois-Chicago|Illinois-Chicago]] (R8)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1998 NCT|1998]]
 +
| [[1998 Harvard|Harvard]]
 +
| [[1998 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[1998 NYU|NYU]]
 +
| [[1998 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]]
 +
| [[1998 South Carolina|South Carolina]]
 +
| [[1998 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[1998 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[1998 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1998 Indiana|Indiana]]
 +
| [[1998 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[1998 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[1998 UT-Dallas|UT-Dallas]]
 +
| [[1998 Arizona State|Arizona State]]
 +
| [[1998 Washington|Washington]]
 +
| [[1998 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[1998 Virginia Tech|Virginia Tech]] (R5)
 +
|-
 +
| [[1999 NCT|1999]]
 +
| [[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 College of New Jersey|College of New Jersey]]
 +
| [[1999 George Washington|George Washington]]
 +
| [[1999 Virginia Tech|Virginia Tech]]
 +
| [[1999 Berry|Berry]]
 +
| [[1999 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[1999 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[1999 Illinois College|Illinois College]]
 +
| [[1999 Iowa|Iowa]]
 +
| [[1999 Wichita State|Wichita State]]
 +
| [[1999 Texas|Texas]]
 +
| [[1999 Arizona State|Arizona State]]
 +
| [[1999 Washington|Washington]]
 +
| [[1999 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[1999 Minnesota|Minnesota]] (R10)
 +
|-
 +
| [[2000 NCT|2000]]
 +
| [[2000 Williams|Williams]]
 +
| [[2000 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[2000 College of New Jersey|College of New Jersey]]
 +
| [[2000 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]]
 +
| [[2000 Rhodes|Rhodes]]
 +
| [[2000 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[2000 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[2000 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 +
| [[2000 Indiana|Indiana]]
 +
| [[2000 Iowa|Iowa]]
 +
| [[2000 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]
 +
| [[2000 Arkansas|Arkansas]]
 +
| [[2000 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[2000 Alaska|Alaska]]
 +
| [[2000 USC|USC]]
 +
| [[2000 Chicago|Chicago]] (R8)
 +
|-
 +
| [[2001 NCT|2001]]
 +
| [[2001 Williams|Williams]]
 +
| [[2001 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[2001 Delaware|Delaware]]
 +
| [[2001 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]]
 +
| [[2001 Centre|Centre]]
 +
| [[2001 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[2001 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[2001 Wabash|Wabash]]
 +
| [[2001 South Dakota|South Dakota]]
 +
| [[2001 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]
 +
| [[2001 Texas|Texas]]
 +
| [[2001 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[2001 Washington|Washington]]
 +
| [[2001 UCLA|UCLA]]
 +
| [[2001 College of New Jersey|College of New Jersey]] (R3)
 +
|-
 +
| [[2002 NCT|2002]]
 +
| [[2002 Providence|Providence]]
 +
| [[2002 Rochester|Rochester]]
 +
| [[2002 NYU|NYU]]
 +
| [[2002 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]]
 +
| [[2002 Roanoke|Roanoke]]
 +
| [[2002 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[2002 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[2002 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[2002 IUPUI|IUPUI]]
 +
| [[2002 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[2002 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]
 +
| [[2002 Arkansas|Arkansas]]
 +
| [[2002 Arizona|Arizona]]
 +
| [[2002 Alaska|Alaska]]
 +
| [[2002 UCLA|UCLA]]
 +
| [[2002 WUSTL|WUSTL]] (R11)
 +
|-
 +
| [[2003 NCT|2003]]
 +
| [[2003 Boston University|Boston University]]
 +
| [[2003 Rochester|Rochester]]
 +
| [[2003 Delaware|Delaware]]
 +
| [[2003 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]]
 +
| [[2003 Virginia Tech|Virginia Tech]]
 +
| [[2003 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[2003 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[2003 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[2003 Notre Dame|Notre Dame]]
 +
| [[2003 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[2003 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]
 +
| [[2003 Arkansas|Arkansas]]
 +
| [[2003 Utah|Utah]]
 +
| [[2003 Montana State-Billings|Montana State-Billings]]
 +
| [[2003 UCLA|UCLA]]
 +
| See note<ref>There was no wild card team in 2003. The tournament ran with 15 teams.</ref>
 +
|-
 +
| [[2004 NCT|2004]]
 +
| [[2004 Dartmouth|Dartmouth]]
 +
| [[2004 Cornell|Cornell]]
 +
| [[2004 SUNY-Stony Brook|SUNY-Stony Brook]]
 +
| [[2004 Georgetown|Georgetown]]
 +
| [[2004 Davidson|Davidson]]
 +
| [[2004 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[2004 Michigan|Michigan]]
 +
| [[2004 Chicago|Chicago]]
 +
| [[2004 Rose-Hulman|Rose-Hulman]]
 +
| [[2004 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[2004 Truman State|Truman State]]
 +
| [[2004 Baylor|Baylor]]
 +
| [[2004 Colorado State|Colorado State]]
 +
| [[2004 Washington|Washington]]
 +
| [[2004 UCLA|UCLA]]
 +
| [[2004 Illinois-Chicago|Illinois-Chicago]] (R8)
 +
|-
 +
| [[2005 NCT|2005]]
 +
| [[2005 Williams|Williams]]
 +
| [[2005 Rochester|Rochester]]
 +
| [[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 Wofford|Wofford]]
 +
| [[2005 Georgia|Georgia]]
 +
| [[2005 Michigan State|Michigan State]]
 +
| [[2005 Northwestern|Northwestern]]
 +
| [[2005 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[2005 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[2005 Truman State|Truman State]]
 +
| [[2005 Harding|Harding]]
 +
| [[2005 New Mexico|New Mexico]]
 +
| [[2005 Montana State-Billings|Montana State-Billings]]
 +
| [[2005 Stanford|Stanford]]
 +
| [[2005 Valdosta State|Valdosta State]] (R6)
 +
|-
 +
| [[2006 NCT|2006]]
 +
| [[2006 UMass-Lowell|UMass-Lowell]]
 +
| [[2006 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]]
 +
| [[2006 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]<ref name="combined"></ref>
 +
| [[2006 Bucknell|Bucknell]]
 +
| [[2006 Davidson|Davidson]]
 +
| [[2006 Valdosta State|Valdosta State]]
 +
| [[2006 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 +
| [[2006 Northwestern|Northwestern]]
 +
| [[2006 Illinois|Illinois]]
 +
| [[2006 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[2006 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[2006 Baylor|Baylor]]
 +
| [[2006 Arizona|Arizona]]
 +
| [[2006 Montana State-Billings|Montana State-Billings]]
 +
| [[2006 UCLA|UCLA]]
 +
| [[2006 New Mexico|New Mexico]] (R13)
 +
|-
 +
| [[2007 NCT|2007]]
 +
| [[2007 Williams|Williams]]
 +
| [[2007 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]]
 +
| [[2007 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]<ref name="combined"></ref>
 +
| [[2007 UMBC|UMBC]]
 +
| [[2007 Southern Virginia|Southern Virginia]]
 +
| [[2007 Florida|Florida]]
 +
| [[2007 Ohio State|Ohio State]]
 +
| [[2007 Northwestern|Northwestern]]
 +
| [[2007 Purdue|Purdue]]
 +
| [[2007 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[2007 Missouri|Missouri]]
 +
| [[2007 Baylor|Baylor]]
 +
| [[2007 New Mexico|New Mexico]]
 +
| [[2007 Washington|Washington]]
 +
| [[2007 USC|USC]]
 +
| [[2007 Providence|Providence]] (R1)
 +
|-
 +
| [[2008 NCT|2008]]
 +
| [[2008 Providence|Providence]]
 +
| [[2008 Rochester|Rochester]]
 +
| [[2008 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]
 +
| [[2008 UMBC|UMBC]]
 +
| [[2008 Georgetown College|Georgetown College]]
 +
| [[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 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
 +
| [[2008 Ball State|Ball State]]
 +
| [[2008 Minnesota|Minnesota]]
 +
| [[2008 WUSTL|WUSTL]]
 +
| [[2008 Rice|Rice]]
 +
| [[2008 Arizona State|Arizona State]]
 +
| [[2008 Western Oregon|Western Oregon]]
 +
| [[2008 Pomona College|Pomona College]]
 +
| [[2008 New Mexico|New Mexico]] (R13)
 +
|-
 +
|}
 +
 +
==Teams by number of NCT appearances==
 +
 +
{|-
 +
|
 +
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;width: 40%;"
 +
|-
 +
! Appearances<ref>Includes teams which lost at the "Sectional" level in 1986.</ref>
 +
! 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]]<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]]
 +
|-
 +
|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
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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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==NCT medal count==
  
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National Champions List: http://www.collegequizbowl.org/Maize/maizeresults.html
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 +
|-
 +
! Team
 +
! Championships
 +
! Second Place Finishes<br><span style="font-size:85%">(Total Top 2 Finishes)
 +
! Third Place Finishes<br><span style="font-size:85%">(Total Top 3 Finishes)
 +
! Fourth Place Finishes<br><span style="font-size:85%">(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)
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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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