INDIANAPOLIS â The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 48 teams that will compete in the 2021 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.
Six teams will compete at eight regional sites. All regionals will use a double-elimination format. Forty two conference champions qualified automatically.
Winners of the eight regional tournaments will qualify for the pool play double-elimination championship at Perfect Game Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Friday-Tuesday/Wednesday, June 4-8/9, 2021.
Teams at the final site will be seeded to determine first-round matchups.
Conferences receiving automatic qualification are as follows:
| Conference | Automatic-Qualifier Team |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Behrend |
| American Rivers Conference | Luther |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Dallas |
| Atlantic East Conference | Marymount (Virginia) |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins |
| Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference | Salisbury |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Millikin |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Keystone College |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Salve Regina |
| Empire 8 Conference | St. John Fisher |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Johnson & Wales (Providence) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Transylvania |
| Landmark Conference | Scranton |
| Liberty League | Rochester |
| Little East Conference | Southern Maine |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Salem State |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Adrian |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | York (Pennsylvania) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Misericordia |
| Midwest Conference | Illinois College |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Saint Maryâs (Minnesota) |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Mitchell |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Tufts |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletics Conference | Wheaton (Massachusetts) |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Rowan |
| North Atlantic Conference | Husson |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Denison |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Penn State Harrisburg |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Aurora |
| Northwest Conference | Pacific (Oregon) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Marietta |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Lynchburg |
| Presidentâs Athletic Conference | Washington & Jefferson |
| Skyline Conference | Merchant Marine |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Webster |
| Southern Athletic Association | Birmingham-Southern |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Chapman |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Cortland |
| USA South Athletic Conference | LaGrange |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Northwestern-St. Paul |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Whitewater |
| Pool C | |
|---|---|
| Eastern Connecticut State | St. Thomas (Minnesota) |
| North Carolina Wesleyan | Trinity (Texas) |
| Oswego State | Washington University in St. Louis |
In the 2019 Division III championship series, Chapman swept the championship series against Birmingham-Southern, winning game two, 11-0, to capture its second NCAA Division III baseball title in school history. There was no championship in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
