March 2, 2009
NCAA Release
INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee announced today the field of 60 teams for the 2009 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship.
Thirty-nine conferences have been granted automatic qualification for the 2009 championship. Three independent teams (Pool B) and 18 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.
Four two-team, first-round games will be conducted Thursday, March 5 with the winners advancing to play four teams which received first-round byes Saturday, March 7. Twelve sites will host four teams for first- and second-round competition Friday-Saturday, March 6-7. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional-round sites March 13-14. Winners of the four sectional games will advance to the finals March 20 and 21. 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.
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Conference
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Automatic Qualifier Team
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Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
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Medaille (21-7)
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American Southwest Conference
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Texas-Dallas (24-4)
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Capital Athletic Conference
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Wesley (18-9)
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Centennial Conference
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Gettysburg (18-8)
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City University of New York Athletic Conference
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Brooklyn (22-5)
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College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
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Wheaton (Illinois) (24-3)
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Colonial States Athletic Conference
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Gwynedd-Mercy (22-5)
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Commonwealth Conference
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Widener (22-5)
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Commonwealth Coast Conference
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New England (24-4)
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Empire 8
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Rochester Institute (19-8)
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Freedom Conference
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DeSales (22-5)
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Great Northeast Athletic Conference
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St. Joseph's (Maine) (21-7)
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Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
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Transylvania (21-5)
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Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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Cornell (21-6)
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Liberty League
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Rensselaer (15-12)
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Little East Conference
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Massachusetts-Dartmouth (25-3)
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Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
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Bridgewater State (20-6)
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Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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Hope (21-7)
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Midwest Conference
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Lawrence (19-6)
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Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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St. Thomas (Minnesota) (27-0)
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New England Small College Athletic Conference
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Middlebury (24-3)
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New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
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MIT (20-8)
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New Jersey Athletic Conference
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Richard Stockton (25-2)
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North Atlantic Conference
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Husson (16-11)
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North Coast Athletic Conference
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Wooster (22-6)
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North Eastern Athletic Conference
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SUNY Institute of Technology (22-6)
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Northern Athletics Conference
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Aurora (16-12)
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Northwest Conference
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Whitworth (22-5)
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Ohio Athletic Conference
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John Carroll (23-4)
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Old Dominion Athletic Conference
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Virginia Wesleyan (17-12)
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Presidents' Athletic Conference
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Thomas More (19-8)
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Skyline Conference
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St. Joseph's (Long Island) (24-3)
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St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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Fontbonne (18-8)
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Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (21-6)
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Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
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Centre (23-4)
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State University of New York Athletic Conference
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College of Brockport (14-14)
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University Athletic Association
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Washington U. in St. Louis (23-2)
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USA South Athletic Conference
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Averett (20-8)
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Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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Wisconsin-Stevens Point (23-4)
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Pool B
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Elms (26-1)
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Maryville (Tennessee) (20-6)
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Scranton (21-6)
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Pool C
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Amherst (21-6)
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Baruch (23-5)
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Brandeis (17-8)
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Capital (24-4)
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Carnegie Mellon (19-6)
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Elmhurst (20-7)
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Farmingdale State (24-3)
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Franklin & Marshall (22-5)
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Guilford (21-5)
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Ithaca (24-2)
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Puget Sound (24-3)
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Rhode Island (23-5)
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Salem State (21-6)
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St. Lawrence (20-6)
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Trinity (Texas) (23-4)
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Wisconsin-Platteville (22-5)
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Wisconsin-Whitewater (22-5)
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Worcester Polytechnic (20-5)
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