2024 NAIA men's basketball tournament

{{Infobox college basketball tournament

| Type=NAIA

| Year=2024

| Gender = Men's

| Image = National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics logo.svg

| ImageSize = 200

| Caption =

| Teams = 64

| FabFourArena = Municipal Auditorium

| FabFourCity = Kansas City, Missouri

| Champions = Freed–Hardeman

| TitleCount = 1st

| ChampGameCount = 1st

| ChampFFCount = 5th

| RunnerUp = Langston

| GameCount = 1st

| RunnerFFCount =

| Semifinal1 = College of Idaho Yotes

| FabFourCount1 =

| Semifinal2 = Grace Lancers

| FabFourCount2 =

| MVP = Hunter Scurlock

| MVPTeam = Freed–Hardeman

| Hustle = J.J. Wheat

| HustleSchool = Freed–Hardeman

| COTY = Drew Stutts

| COTYSchool = Freed–Hardeman

| POTY = Elijah Malone

| POTYSchool = Grace

| TopScorer =

| TopScorerTeam =

| Points =

}}

The 2024 NAIA men's basketball tournament was a tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of men's college basketball among its member programs in the United States and Canada, culminating the 2023–24 NAIA men's basketball season.{{cite web |title=NAIA NATIONAL MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIOSHIP Record Book |url=https://www.naia.org/sports/mbkb/Records/MBB_Champ_Records |website=naia.org |publisher=NAIA |access-date=29 March 2025}}

The tournament finals were played at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.

Freed–Hardeman won the title, the Lions' first NAIA national overall.

Qualification

{{see also|2023–24 NAIA men's basketball season}}

For the second year, the tournament field consisted of 64 teams.

Furthermore, the championship continued to utilize a simple single-elimination format.

The first two preliminary rounds were played on one of sixteen regional campus sites while the four final rounds, including the national championship, were played at the NAIA's long-time final tournament site in Kansas City, Missouri.

See also

References