2006 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
The 2006 Buffalo Funds - NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held from March 15 to 21 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. This was the 69th annual NAIA DI basketball tournament and featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.
The unranked Texas Wesleyan University Rams would defeat the Oklahoma City University Stars by a score of 67 to 65. 2006 would mark the second year in a row an unranked team won the National Championship. Undeterred by this loss, the Stars would go on to win the next two National Championship titles. The other teams that made it to the NAIA National Semifinals were Oklahoma City University and Robert Morris (Ill.).
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