NCAA.com | March 10, 2019

DII men's basketball tournament qualifiers announced for 2019 championship

DII Men's Basketball: 2019 Selection Show

INDIANAPOLIS —The NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams that will compete in the 2019 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championship.

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Twenty-four conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 40 teams were selected at large by the committee.

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Six of the regional tournaments, consisting of eight teams each, will be conducted March 16, 17 and 19 at regional sites. The south central regional will be conducted March 15, 16 and 19. The west regional will be conducted March 15, 16 and 18. The eight regional champions will advance to the quarterfinals in conjunction with the 2019 NCAA Division II Men’s Elite Eight at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.

CONFERENCE	TEAM
California Collegiate Athletic Association	UC San Diego
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference	Dominican (NY)
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Virginia State
Conference Carolinas	Emmanuel (Georgia)
East Coast Conference	Molloy
Great American Conference	Southern Nazarene
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Grand Valley State
Great Lakes Valley Conference	Bellarmine
Great Midwest Athletic Conference	Walsh
Great Northwest Athletic Conference	Seattle Pacific
Gulf South Conference	Delta State
Heartland Conference	St. Edward’s
Lone Star Conference	West Texas A&M
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association	Northwest Missouri State
Mountain East Conference	Notre Dame (Ohio)
Northeast-10 Conference	Merrimack
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference	Northern State
Pacific West Conference	Point Loma
Peach Belt Conference	Augusta University
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference	Indiana (Pennsylvania)
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference	New Mexico Highlands
South Atlantic Conference	Catawba
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Miles
Sunshine State Conference	Florida Southern

Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows:

Alabama Huntsville
Angelo State
Ashland
Cal Poly Pomona
Chaminade
Colorado School of Mines
Concordia (California)
Daemen
Dallas Baptist University
Drury
East Stroudsburg
Fairmont State
Findlay
Francis Marion
Le Moyne
Lenoir-Rhyne
Lewis
Lubbock Christian
Lynn
Mercyhurst
Minnesota State Mankato
Missouri Southern State
New Haven
Nova Southeastern
Queens (North Carolina)
Saint Anselm
Saint Martin’s
St. Cloud State
St. Thomas Aquinas
South Carolina Aiken
Southeastern Oklahoma State
Southern Indiana
Texas A&M-Commerce
UNC Pembroke
Valdosta State
Washburn
West Alabama
West Chester
West Liberty
Western Oregon

Ferris State defeated Northern State, 71-69, to win the 2018 NCAA Division II Men’s Elite Eight championship game in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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