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| Teams | 32 | ||||
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| Finals site | , Saint Paul, Minnesota | ||||
| Champions | St. Thomas (MN) Tommies (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Muskingum Fighting Muskies (1st title game) | ||||
| Third place | Eastern Connecticut State Warriors (1st Final Four) | ||||
| Fourth place | Washington University Bears (2nd Final Four) | ||||
| Winning coach | Ted Riverso (1st title) | ||||
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The1991 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the tenth annualtournament hosted by theNCAA to determine the national champion ofDivision III women'scollegiate basketball in theUnited States.[1]
St. Thomas (MN) defeatedMuskingum in the championship game, 73–55, to claim the Tommies' first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted by theUniversity of St. Thomas inSaint Paul, Minnesota.
There was a slight adjustment to the tournament's format in 1991, even though the field size remained fixed at 32 teams.
The bracket was reorganized from eight regional tournaments of four teams, with each regional winner advancing to the national quarterfinal round, to a new structure of four sectionals of eight teams. Under the new format, the four sectional champions advanced to the national semifinal, or Final Four, round.
| Regionals March 1–2, 1991 Campus sites | Sectional semifinals March 8, 1991 New Concord, OH | Sectional finals March 9, 1991 New Concord, OH | |||||||||
| St. John Fisher* | 74 | ||||||||||
| Buffalo State | 66 | ||||||||||
| St. John Fisher | 79 | ||||||||||
| East Regional | |||||||||||
| Frostburg State | 50 | ||||||||||
| NYU* | 54 | ||||||||||
| Hartwick | 55* | ||||||||||
| St. John Fisher | 70 | ||||||||||
| (Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | |||||||||||
| Muskingum | 81 | ||||||||||
| Kean | 57 | ||||||||||
| Frostburg State* | 61 | ||||||||||
| Hartwick | 57 | ||||||||||
| Atlantic Regional | |||||||||||
| Muskingum | 67 | ||||||||||
| Capital (OH)* | 74 | ||||||||||
| Muskingum | 76 | ||||||||||
| Regionals March 1–2, 1991 Campus sites | Sectional semifinals March 8, 1991 Salem, VA | Sectional finals March 9, 1991 Salem, VA | |||||||||
| Washington St. Louis* | 69 | ||||||||||
| Augustana (IL) | 62 | ||||||||||
| Washington St. Louis | 73 | ||||||||||
| Central Regional | |||||||||||
| Maryville (TN) | 59 | ||||||||||
| Luther* | 78 | ||||||||||
| Wartburg | 54 | ||||||||||
| Washington St. Louis | 67 | ||||||||||
| (Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | |||||||||||
| Roanoke | 51 | ||||||||||
| Maryville (TN)* | 88 | ||||||||||
| Centre (KY) | 80 | ||||||||||
| Luther | 74 | ||||||||||
| South Regional | |||||||||||
| Roanoke | 84 | ||||||||||
| Roanoke* | 86 | ||||||||||
| Marymount | 66 | ||||||||||
| Regionals March 1–2, 1991 Campus sites | Sectional semifinals March 8, 1991 Willimantic, CT | Sectional finals March 9, 1991 Willimantic, CT | |||||||||
| Susquehanna* | 70 | ||||||||||
| Carnegie Mellon | 54 | ||||||||||
| Susquehanna | 74 | ||||||||||
| Mid-Atlantic Regional | |||||||||||
| Southern Maine | 83 | ||||||||||
| Franklin & Marshall | 76 | ||||||||||
| Moravian* | 81 | ||||||||||
| Southern Maine | 62 | ||||||||||
| (Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | |||||||||||
| Eastern Connecticut | 63 | ||||||||||
| Southern Maine | 60 | ||||||||||
| Salem State* | 57 | ||||||||||
| Moravian | 62 | ||||||||||
| Northeast Regional | |||||||||||
| Eastern Connecticut | 71 | ||||||||||
| Eastern Connecticut | 62 | ||||||||||
| Western Connecticut* | 50 | ||||||||||
| Regionals March 1–2, 1991 Campus sites | Sectional semifinals March 8, 1991 St. Paul, MN | Sectional finals March 9, 1991 St. Paul, MN | |||||||||
| Wisconsin–Stevens Point | 62 | ||||||||||
| Wisconsin–Oshkosh* | 67 | ||||||||||
| Wisconsin–Oshkosh | 63 | ||||||||||
| Great Lakes Regional | |||||||||||
| St. Thomas (MN) | 87 | ||||||||||
| Calvin | 50 | ||||||||||
| Adrian* | 57 | ||||||||||
| St. Thomas (MN) | 76 | ||||||||||
| (Pairings are reseeded after the first round) | |||||||||||
| Concordia Moorhead | 62 | ||||||||||
| Saint Benedict | 62 | ||||||||||
| St. Thomas (MN)* | 76 | ||||||||||
| Adrian | 75 | ||||||||||
| West Regional | |||||||||||
| Concordia Moorhead | 100 | ||||||||||
| Gustavus Adolphus | 62 | ||||||||||
| Concordia Moorhead* | 75 | ||||||||||
| Final Four | National championship | ||||||||
| Muskingum | 85 | ||||||||
| Washington St. Louis | 60 | ||||||||
| Muskingum | 55 | ||||||||
| St. Thomas (MN) | 73 | ||||||||
| Eastern Connecticut | 55 | ||||||||
| St. Thomas (MN) | 91 | Third place | |||||||
| Washington St. Louis | 74 | ||||||||
| Eastern Connecticut | 83 | ||||||||