2014 Men’s Basketball
Championship
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INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the 43 teams that will compete in the 2012 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championship.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second and third rounds played at regional sites, May 11-13. Meredith College and the Town of Cary will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 21-23 at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 9.
The championship provides for a 43-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 30 conference champions, which form “Pool A.” Six teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining seven teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference’s AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification:
| Conference | School |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Behrend (8-10) |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Tyler (17-5) |
| Capital Athletic Conference | Mary Washington (15-12) |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins (17-4) |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Baruch (15-2) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Marywood (11-5) |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Nichols (17-3) |
| Commonwealth Conference | Elizabethtown (13-6) |
| Empire 8 | Stevens Institute (11-7) |
| Freedom Conference | Wilkes (14-3) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Earlham (19-1) |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Coe (22-7) |
| Landmark Conference | Drew (11-5) |
| Little East Conference | Massachusetts-Dartmouth (13-2) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Kalamazoo (10-11) |
| Midwest Conference | Grinnell (24-6) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Gustavus Adolphus (20-7) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Amherst (29-2) |
| North Atlantic Conference | Penn State-Harrisburg (12-6) |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Kenyon (20-4) |
| Northern Athletics Conference | Concordia (Wis.) (14-10) |
| Northwest Conference | Whitman (21-4) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Baldwin-Wallace (28-0) |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Washington and Lee (15-4) |
| President’s Athletic Conference | Grove City (11-4) |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State (12-5) |
| Southern California Inter. Athletic Conference | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (27-4) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) (20-7) |
| University Athletic Association | Emory (20-0) |
| USA South Athletic Conference | North Carolina Wesleyan (16-2) |
The following schools, listed alphabetically, were selected to the championships from Pool B and Pool C candidates:
| Schools | |
|---|---|
| MIT | UC Santa Cruz |
| TCNJ | Skidmore |
| Vassar | Wisconsin-Whitewater |
| Schools | |
|---|---|
| Bowdoin | Cal Lutheran |
| Middlebury | Pomona-Pitzer |
| Redlands | Washington-St. Louis |
| Williams |
Amherst is the defending national champion, having defeated Emory 5-2 to claim the team title.
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