Collegiate Conference of the South men's basketball tournament

Collegiate Conference of the South men's basketball tournament
Conference basketball championship
Sport	Basketball
Conference	Collegiate Conference of the South
Number of teams	7
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Played	2023–present
Current champion	Maryville (TN) (2nd)
Most championships	Maryville (TN) (2)
Official website	CCS men's basketball
Host stadiums
Campus sites (2023–present)
Host locations
Campus sites (2023–present)

The Collegiate Conference of the South men's basketball tournament is the annual conference basketball championship tournament for the NCAA Division III Collegiate Conference of the South. The tournament's inaugural edition was held in 2023. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular conference season records.^[1]

The winner, declared conference champion, will only begin to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship in 2025.

Results

Year	Champions	Score	Runner-up	Site
2023	Maryville (TN)	84–74	Belhaven	Maryville, TN
2024	Maryville (TN)	97–75	Belhaven	Maryville, TN

Championship records

School	Finals Record	Finals Appearances	Years
Maryville (TN)	2–0	1	2023, 2024
Belhaven	0–2	0

Covenant, Huntingdon, LaGrange, and Piedmont have not yet qualified for the CCS tournament finals. Asbury will play its first CCS season in 2024–25.
Berea did not qualify for the tournament finals as a CCS member

References

^ "CCS Men's Basketball Championship". CCS. Retrieved March 1, 2023.

NCAA men's college basketball tournaments

Division I

Early season	Acrisure Classic Acrisure Holiday Invitational Acrisure Invitational Arizona Tip-Off Bahamas Championship Battle 4 Atlantis Big 5 Classic Boardwalk Battle Cancún Challenge Cayman Islands Classic Charleston Classic Diamond Head Classic Empire Classic Emerald Coast Classic ESPN Events Invitational Fort Myers Tip-Off Greenbrier Tip-Off Gulf Coast Showcase Hall of Fame Tip-Off Jacksonville Classic Legends Classic Maui Invitational Myrtle Beach Invitational Nassau Championship NIT Season Tip-Off Paradise Jam Phil Knight Invitational Players Era Festival Rady Children's Invitational Sunshine Slam Vegas Showdown
Defunct Early season	All-College Basketball Classic Asheville Championship Belfast Classic Coaches vs. Cancer Classic Corpus Christi Coastal Classic Crossover Classic DirecTV Classic Great Alaska Shootout Global Sports Classic Jamaica Classic Las Vegas Classic Las Vegas Invitational Northern Classic Puerto Rico Tip-Off Savannah Invitational SoCal Challenge Southland Basketball Tip-Off Vancouver Showcase
Conference postseason	ACC America East The American ASUN Atlantic 10 Big 12 Big East Big Sky Big South Big Ten Big West CAA Conference USA Horizon Ivy League MAAC MEAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Mountain West Northeast Ohio Valley Pac-12 (on hiatus until 2027) Patriot SEC Southern Southland SWAC Sun Belt Summit WAC West Coast
Defunct Conference postseason	American South American West Big Eight East Coast Great Midwest Great West Metro Southwest
Postseason	NCAA Division I Tournament National Invitation Tournament College Basketball Invitational CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament College Basketball Crown (starting in 2025)
Defunct Postseason	The Basketball Classic Vegas 16 National Commissioners Invitational Tournament National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament

Division II

Conference postseason	CCAA CACC Carolinas East Coast Great American GLIAC GLVC G-MAC Great Northwest Gulf South Lone Star Mountain East Northeast-10 Northern Sun Pacific West Peach Belt PSAC RMAC South Atlantic SIAC Sunshine State
Defunct Conference postseason	Heartland
Postseason	NCAA Division II Tournament

Division III

Conference postseason	Allegheny Mountain American Rivers American Southwest Atlantic East C2C Centennial CUNYAC CCIW CCS Commonwealth Coast Empire 8 Great Northeast HCAC Landmark Liberty Little East MASCAC Michigan Middle Atlantic (MAC Commonwealth and MAC Freedom) Midwest Minnesota NESCAC NEWMAC New Jersey North Atlantic NACC NCAC Northwest Ohio Old Dominion Presidents' SAA SCIAC SLIAC Skyline SCAC SUNYAC United East Upper Midwest USA South Wisconsin
Defunct Conference postseason	ACAA Colonial States NECC
Postseason	NCAA Division III Tournament ECAC Tournaments

v t e Collegiate Conference of the South
Current members	Agnes Scott Scotties (2022–present) Asbury Eagles (2024–present) Belhaven Blazers (2022–present) Covenant Scots (2022–present) Huntingdon Hawks (2022–present) LaGrange Panthers (2022–present) Maryville Scots (2022–2026) Piedmont Lions (2022–present) Wesleyan (GA) Wolves (2022–present)
Former members	Berea Mountaineers (2022–2024)