Team Standings
| Rank |
Team |
| 1 |
Minnesota |
| 2 |
Wisconsin |
| 3 |
Chicago |
| 4 |
Iowa State |
| 5 |
Iowa |
| 6 |
CIS |
| 7 |
Carleton |
| 8 |
St. Olaf |
Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20050802094512/http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu:80/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/95-96/minnesota96.txt; https://web.archive.org/web/20060919030030/http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/95-96/overall.txt