2014 Men’s Basketball
Championship
May 3, 2010
NCAA RELEASE
INDIANAPOLIS— The NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Committee has announced the teams and individuals selected to participate in the 2010 NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships.
The championships will be held May 11-14, at the Hershey Links and Hershey Country Club, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The championships will be hosted by Elizabethtown College.
A total of 190 participants will compete at the 2010 championships. Twenty-seven conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the championships. Seven teams were selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final three berths were reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams. The top five individuals are selected from the remaining players who have not qualified with a team. Listed below are the teams and individuals selected for the 2010 championships:
| Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (27): | |
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Behrend |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Tyler |
| Centennial Conference | Franklin & Marshall |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Illinois Wesleyan |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Keystone |
| Commonwealth Conference | Messiah |
| Freedom Conference | Manhattanville |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) |
| Heartland College Athletic Conference | Transylvania |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Central (Iowa) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Hope |
| Midwest Conference | Monmouth |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | St. John’s (Minnesota) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Trinity (Connecticut) |
| North Atlantic Conference | Husson |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Wittenberg |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Rutgers-Camden |
| Northern Athletics Conference | Aurora |
| Northwest Conference | Whitworth |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Otterbein |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Bridgewater (Virginia) |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference | Thomas More |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | La Verne |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Centre |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Blackburn |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Methodist |
Pool B Berths (7):
Emory
Huntingdon
LaGrange
Nebraska Wesleyan
Skidmore
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-Stout
Pool C Berths (3):
Greensboro
Guilford
Oglethorpe
Individuals:
Max Bonk, Pacific (Oregon)
Ross Canavan, Redlands
Blake Furgerson, John Carroll
Tain Lee, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Mitch Mercer, Susquehanna
Oglethorpe University was four shots down entering the final day and shot a 289 to win its first NCAA Division III Men’s Golf National Championship last year. Olafur Loftson, Oglethorpe, took home the top individual honors. The championships were played at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida and hosted by Methodist University.
For more information about the NCAA Division III Golf Championships, log on to NCAA.com. Highlights of the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships will be shown on CBS at 4 p.m. Eastern time, Saturday, June 19. The CBS seasonal show will feature highlights of 17 different NCAA championships that took place during the spring.
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