2012 Men’s Basketball
Championship
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Committee announced the field of 61 teams for the 2011 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship on Monday.
Forty-two conferences have been granted automatic qualification for the 2011 Championship. One independent team (Pool B) and 18 at-large teams from the remaining independent teams and automatic-qualifying conferences that did not receive their conference automatic qualification (Pool C) were selected by using specific selection criteria approved by the Division III Championships Committee.
Three two-team, first-round games will be conducted Thursday, March 3, with the winners advancing to play three teams which received first-round byes. Those contests will take place on Saturday, March 5.
Thirteen sites will host four teams for first- and second-round competition on Friday and Saturday, March 4-5. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional-round sites on March 11-12. Winners of the four sectional games then advance to the semifinals on March 18. The championship will be played on 19.
All games except the semifinals and final will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The final will be conducted at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va.
| Automatic Qualifying Conference | Team (Record) |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate | La Roche (25-2) |
| American Southwest | McMurry (21-7) |
| Capital Athletic | St. Mary’s (Md.) (22-5) |
| Centennial | Franklin & Marshall (22-5) |
| City University of New York Athletic | Medgar Evers (17-11) |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Augustana (Ill.) (24-3) |
| Colonial States Athletic | Cabrini (22-5) |
| Commonwealth | Alvernia (18-6) |
| Commonwealth Coast | Salve Regina (17-10) |
| Empire 8 | Hartwick (17-10) |
| Freedom | Delaware Valley (17-10) |
| Great Northeast Athletic | Johnson & Wales (R.I.) (20-8) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic | Manchester (21-6) |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic | Luther (18-8) |
| Landmark | Scranton (20-5) |
| Liberty League | Skidmore (18-9) |
| Little East | Rhode Island College (19-7) |
| Massachusetts State College Athletic | Bridgewater State (19-9) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Hope (22-6) |
| Midwest | St. Norbert (20-5) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic | St. Thomas (Minn.) (24-3) |
| New England Collegiate | Elms (20-7) |
| New England Small College Athletic | Middlebury (25-1) |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic | MIT (19-8) |
| New Jersey Athletic | New Jersey City (19-9) |
| North Atlantic | Husson (21-6) |
| North Coast Athletic | Wooster (26-2) |
| North Eastern Athletic | Wells (16-11) |
| Northern Athletics | Benedictine (Ill.) (21-7) |
| Northwest | Whitworth (26-1) |
| Ohio Athletic | Marietta (25-3) |
| Old Dominion Athletic | Randolph-Macon (24-4) |
| Presidents’ Athletic | Bethany (W.V.) (21-7) |
| Skyline | Purchase (23-4) |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic | Webster (20-6) |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic | Redlands (16-11) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic | Centre (21-5) |
| State University of New York Athletic | Buffalo State (21-6) |
| University Athletic Association | Rochester (N.Y.) (20-5) |
| Upper Midwest Athletic | Northwestern (Minn.) (21-6) |
| USA South Athletic | North Carolina Wesleyan (21-6) |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic | Wisconsin-Stevens Point (24-3) |
| Pool B At-Large | |
| Chapman (24-3) | |
| Pool C At-Large | |
| Amherst (22-3) | |
| Becker (23-4) | |
| Concordia (Wis.) (23-4) | |
| Gwynedd-Mercy (21-6) | |
| Hanover (19-7) | |
| Illinois Wesleyan (19-8) | |
| Ithaca (20-6) | |
| Mary Hardin-Baylor (21-7) | |
| Oswego State (23-4) | |
| Penn State-Behrend (23-4) | |
| Ramapo (20-6) | |
| Texas-Dallas (21-6) | |
| Virginia Wesleyan (23-4) | |
| Western Connecticut State (21-5) | |
| Williams (25-2) | |
| Wisconsin-River Falls (20-7) | |
| Wittenberg (19-8) | |
| WPI (22-5) |
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