NAIA District 26 Men's Basketball

NAIA District 26 consisted, until the end of the district qualification era, of NAIA schools in the Carolinas, strictly North Carolina after 1968, and even there, it did not encompass the entire state until 1978. By 1990, schools from South Carolina and Tennessee were included as well (via the South Atlantic Conference).

When the NAIA split into divisions in 1992, the teams in the district competed in Division I.

Primary sources for information on this district include the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the Lexington Dispatch, the Rock Hill Herald, the Sumter Daily Item, the Wilmington Star-News, and the Charlotte Observer.

Formats

1951, 1991: Five-team format.

1952-77, 1982-90: Four-team format.

1978-79, 1992-93: Six-team format.

1980-81: Eight-team format.

District Champions

1951	High Point	1966	Guilford	1981	Gardner-Webb (3)
1952	Elon	1967	Guilford (2)	1982	Catawba
1953	East Carolina	1968	Guilford (3)	1983	Catawba (2)
1954	East Carolina (2)	1969	High Point (4)	1984	Pembroke State†‡
1955	Atlantic Christian‡	1970	Guilford (4)	1985	Pfeiffer
1956	Elon (2)	1971	North Carolina A&T	1986	Atlantic Christian (2)
1957	Elon (3)	1972	Gardner-Webb	1987	Atlantic Christian (3)
1958	Lenoir-Rhyne	1973	Guilford (5)	1988	Belmont Abbey (2)
1959	Lenoir-Rhyne (2)	1974	Gardner-Webb (2)	1989	Guilford (7)
1960	Wofford	1975	Winston-Salem State†	1990	Pfeiffer (2)
1961	Newberry†	1976	Guilford (6)	1991	Pfeiffer (3)
1962	Belmont Abbey	1977	Saint Augustine's	1992 I	Pfeiffer (4)
1963	Western Carolina†	1978	Winston-Salem State (2)	1992 II	unassigned
1964	High Point (2)	1979	High Point (5)	1993 I	Lenoir-Rhyne (3)
1965	High Point (3)	1980	Saint Augustine's (2)	1993 II	unassigned

† - Newberry also won three District 6 titles. Western Carolina won the 1972 District 6 title. Winston-Salem State also won four District 29 titles. Pembroke State won the 1973 District 29 title.

‡ - Atlantic Christian is now known as Barton. Pembroke State is now known as North Carolina-Pembroke.

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