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INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Committee announced Monday the field of 62 teams for the 2012 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship.
Forty-two conferences have been granted automatic qualification for the 2012 championship. One independent team (Pool B) and 19 other at-large teams from the remaining independent teams and automatic-qualifying conferences who did not receive their conference automatic qualification (Pool C) were selected by using specific selection criteria approved by the Division III Championships Committee.
Two first-round games will be conducted Thursday, March 1, with the winners advancing to play Saturday, March 3, against teams that received first-round byes. Fourteen sites will host four teams for first- and second-round competition Friday-Saturday, March 2-3. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional-round sites March 9-10. Winners of the four sectional games will advance to the finals March 16 and 17. All games, except the finals, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The finals will be conducted at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.
| CONFERENCE | AUTOMATIC QUALIFIER TEAM (RECORD) |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Medaille (25-2) |
| American Southwest Conference | McMurry (20-8) |
| Capital Athletic Conference | York (Penn.) (18-10) |
| Centennial Conference | Franklin & Marshall (25-2) |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Staten Island (24-4) |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | North Central (Ill.) (20-7) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cabrini (26-1) |
| Commonwealth Conference | Messiah (20-6) |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott (20-8) |
| Empire 8 | Ithaca (14-13) |
| Freedom Conference | Misericordia (21-6) |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Albertus Magnus (27-1) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Rose-Hulman (20-8) |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Buena Vista (17-10) |
| Landmark Conference | Scranton (20-7) |
| Liberty League | Skidmore (19-8) |
| Little East Conference | Eastern Connecticut State (22-5) |
| Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference | Salem State (20-7) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Hope (26-1) |
| Midwest Conference | Carroll (Wis.) (16-9) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | St. Thomas (Minn.) (21-6) |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Becker (23-4) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Amherst (25-2) |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference | MIT (25-1) |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | William Paterson (24-3) |
| North Atlantic Conference | Castleton State (19-9) |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Wooster (24-4) |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Morrisville State (19-8) |
| Northern Athletics Conference | Edgewood (22-6) |
| Northwest Conference | Whitworth (24-3) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Capital (18-9) |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Virginia Wesleyan (25-3) |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference | Bethany (W.Va.) (25-3) |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State (22-5) |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Westminster (Mo.) (17-10) |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (25-2) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) (20-8) |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | Oswego State (25-3) |
| University Athletic Association | Washington U. in St. Louis (19-6) |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Northwestern (Minn.) (17-10) |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Christopher Newport (23-4) |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-River Falls (20-7) |
| TEAM (RECORD) |
|---|
| Maryville (Tenn.) (18-9) |
| TEAMS (RECORD) |
|---|
| Birmingham-Southern (25-2) |
| Gustavus Adolphus (20-7) |
| Hartwick (23-3) |
| Hobart (22-5) |
| Illinois Wesleyan (19-7) |
| Mary Hardin-Baylor (25-2) |
| Middlebury (24-3) |
| New York University (20-5) |
| Ohio Wesleyan (20-7) |
| Randolph-Macon (21-6) |

