| Year: | 1976 |
| Division: | III |
| Teams: | 28 |
| Finalfourcity: | Reading, Pennsylvania |
| Attendance: | 4,000 (Championship game) |
| Champions: | Scranton Royals |
| Titlecount: | 1st |
| Runnerup: | Wittenberg Tigers |
| Gamecount: | 1st |
| Semifinal1: | Augustana (IL) Vikings |
| Finalfourcount: | 2nd |
| Semifinal2: | Plattsburgh State Cardinals |
| Finalfourcount2: | 1st |
| Coach: | Bob Bessoir (Scranton) |
| Mop: | Jack Maher (Scranton) |
The 1976 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was the second annual single-elimination tournament to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III, held during March 1976.
The tournament field included 28 teams, a decrease of two from 1975, and the national championship rounds were contested in Reading, Pennsylvania.[1]
Scranton defeated Wittenberg, 60–57 (in overtime), to win their first national championship.