2012 Men’s Basketball
Championship
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 55 teams that will compete in the 2011 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.
Six teams will compete at four regional sites; seven teams will compete at one regional site; eight teams will compete at three regional sites. All regionals will use a double-elimination format. Thirty-eight conference champions qualified automatically.
Winners of the eight regional tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin, May 27-31.
| Region/Seed | Host/School | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomington, Ill. | Illinois Wesleyan | |
| 1 | Coe | 32-10 |
| 2 | Carthage | 30-10 |
| 3 | Thomas More | 28-7 |
| 4 | Illinois Wesleyan | 26-16 |
| 5 | Buena Vista | 28-15 |
| 6 | Ripon | 20-18 |
| Auburn, N.Y. | Cortland State | |
| 1 | Cortland State | 33-8 |
| 2 | Farmingdale State | 26-15 |
| 3 | Keystone | 32-10 |
| 4 | College of Brockport | 27-12 |
| 5 | Eastern Connecticut State | 32-11 |
| 6 | Ramapo | 30-12 |
| 7 | Clarkson | 17-17 |
| 8 | Mitchell | 23-9-1 |
| Harwich, Mass. | Eastern College Athletic Conference | |
| 1 | Tufts | 26-7-1 |
| 2 | Western New England | 38-9 |
| 3 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 29-10 |
| 4 | MIT | 25-13 |
| 5 | Rhode Island College | 21-18 |
| 6 | St. Joseph’s (Maine) | 30-13 |
| 7 | Husson | 29-15 |
| 8 | Bridgewater State | 23-15 |
| Lakewood, N.J. | Kean | |
| 1 | Kean | 36-8 |
| 2 | Rowan | 30-11-1 |
| 3 | Alvernia | 35-7 |
| 4 | Misericordia | 28-14 |
| 5 | Messiah | 25-17 |
| 6 | Johns Hopkins | 25-11 |
| 7 | Randolph-Macon | 24-18 |
| 8 | Catholic | 22-19 |
| Abilene, Texas | McMurry | |
| 1 | Linfield | 31-9 |
| 2 | Chapman | 29-11 |
| 3 | Redlands | 29-11 |
| 4 | Trinity (Texas) | 33-11 |
| 5 | Texas-Tyler | 33-6 |
| 6 | Concordia (Texas) | 30-15 |
| Marietta, Ohio | Marietta | |
| 1 | Marietta | 38-3 |
| 2 | Heidelberg | 33-1 |
| 3 | Adrian | 31-9 |
| 4 | Franklin | 29-12 |
| 5 | Frostburg State | 28-13 |
| 6 | Case Western Reserve | 30-13 |
| 7 | Penn State-Altoona | 28-11 |
| Millington, Tenn. | Rhodes | |
| 1 | Christopher Newport | 39-5 |
| 2 | Shenandoah | 34-5 |
| 3 | Piedmont | 31-13 |
| 4 | Salisbury | 29-11 |
| 5 | Wabash | 21-20 |
| 6 | Webster | 31-11 |
| Whitewater, Wis. | Wisconsin-Whitewater | |
| 1 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | 32-8 |
| 2 | Wisconsin-Whitewater | 32-11 |
| 3 | St. Scholastica | 35-5 |
| 4 | Hamline | 28-13 |
| 5 | St. Thomas (Minn.) | 27-16 |
| 6 | Aurora | 30-12 |
First-round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:
McMurry regional winner vs. Kean regional winner
Rhodes regional winner vs. Marietta regional winner
Wisconsin-Whitewater regional winner vs. Illinois Wesleyan regional winner
ECAC regional winner vs. Cortland State regional winner
Conferences receiving automatic qualification are as follows:
| Conference | Automatic-Qualifier |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Altoona |
| American Southwest Conference | Concordia (Texas) |
| Capital Athletic Conference | Frostburg State |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Carthage |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Keystone |
| Commonwealth Conference | Messiah |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Western New England |
| Freedom Conference | Misericordia |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | St. Joseph’s (Maine) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Franklin |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Coe |
| Landmark Conference | Catholic |
| Liberty League | Clarkson |
| Little East Conference | Rhode Island College |
| Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference | Bridgewater State |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Adrian |
| Midwest Conference | Ripon |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Hamline |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Mitchell |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Tufts |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletics Conference | Wheaton (Mass.) |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Kean |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Wabash |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Husson |
| Northern Athletics Conference | Aurora |
| Northwest Conference | Linfield |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Marietta |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Randolph-Macon |
| President’s Athletic Conference | Thomas More |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Webster |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Redlands |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | Cortland State |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Christopher Newport |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | St. Scholastica |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
| School |
|---|
| Case Western Reserve |
| Chapman |
| School |
|---|
| Alvernia |
| Buena Vista |
| College of Brockport |
| Eastern Connecticut State |
| Heidelberg |
| Illinois Wesleyan |
| MIT |
| Piedmont |
| Ramapo |
| Rowan |
| Salisbury |
| Shenandoah |
| St. Thomas (Minn.) |
| Texas-Tyler |
| Wisconsin-Whitewater |
In the 2010 Division III championship game, Illinois Wesleyan defeated Cortland State 17-5 to win its first national championship in baseball.
The 2011 NCAA Spring Seasonal Show will air on CBS at 4 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, June 19, and will include highlights from the championship.
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