NAIA District 30 Men's Basketball

NAIA District 30 primarily consisted of NAIA schools in Louisiana and Mississippi. When the district qualification system began, the district was assigned to Pennsylvania, while Louisiana and Mississippi had originally been in District 18 and District 19. Those districts were essentially left vacant when Mississippi and Louisiana barred their schools from participating in the NAIA tournament when the NAIA began allowing black schools to participate, and in 1965 Pennsylvania (now in need of two districts due to the number of teams) was moved to those two districts. Black schools in Louisiana were then relocated to District 30, and when Louisiana and Mississippi relaxed their restriction, the district became the home of all NAIA schools in the two states.

When the NAIA split into divisions in 1992, most of the schools in the district competed in Division I, with some schools moving to District 8 Division II. By that time, members of District 30 were also members of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference.

Primary sources for information on this district during the Pennsylvania years include the Pittsburgh Press, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Beaver County Times, and the Reading Eagle. The primary sources in Louisiana were the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Baton Rouge Advocate.

Formats

1951: unknown

1952: Five-team playoff, with two teams from Western Pennsylvania playing off to determine the fourth team.

1953-64; 1970-73; 1975-78; 1981-89: Four-team playoff.

1965-69; 1974: Best-of-three series.

1979-80; 1990-93: Six-team playoff.

District Champions

1951	Westminster (PA)†	1966	Grambling State†	1981	Xavier (LA) (3)
1952	Clarion†	1967	Alcorn A&M†‡	1982	Xavier (LA) (4)
1953	Geneva†	1968	Alcorn A&M (2)	1983	William Carey
1954	Geneva (2)	1969	Grambling State (2)	1984	William Carey (2)
1955	Geneva (3)	1970	Northeast Louisiana	1985	William Carey (3)
1956	Geneva (4)	1971	Grambling State (3)	1986	William Carey (4)
1957	Millersville†	1972	Xavier (LA)	1987	William Carey (5)
1958	Indiana (PA)†	1973	Xavier (LA) (2)	1988	Mobile
1959	Westminster (PA) (2)	1974	Northwestern State	1989	William Carey (6)
1960	Westminster (PA) (3)	1975	Alcorn State (3)	1990	Louisiana (2)
1961	Westminster (PA) (4)	1976	Alcorn State (4)	1991	Xavier (LA) (5)
1962	Westminster (PA) (5)	1977	Alcorn State (5)	1992 I	Spring Hill
1963	Alliance†	1978	Mississippi Valley State	1992 II	unassigned
1964	Mansfield†	1979	Louisiana	1993 I	Spring Hill (2)
1965	Southern	1980	Dillard	1993 II	unassigned

† - Westminster (PA) also won three District 18 titles. Clarion also won two District 18 titles. Geneva won the 1993 District 18 title. Millersville won five District 19 titles. Indiana (PA) won two District 18 titles. Alliance won the 1965 District 18 title. Mansfield won two District 19 titles. Grambling State won two District 6 titles and three District 6A titles. Alcorn A&M won two District 27 titles.

‡ - Alcorn A&M became Alcorn State.

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