DII Men's Basketball tournament field announced

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Committee on Sunday announced the field of 64 teams that will compete in the 2014 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championship.

Twenty-two conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 42 teams were selected at large by the committee.

Seven of the regional tournaments, consisting of eight teams each, will be conducted March 15, 16 and 18 at regional sites. The West regional will be conducted March 14, 15 and 17. The eight regional champions will advance to the quarterfinals in conjunction with the 2014 NCAA Division II Men’s Elite Eight at the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind.

Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows:

California Collegiate Athletic Association -- Cal State Stanislaus
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference -- Philadelphia
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association -- Livingstone
Conference Carolinas -- Limestone
East Coast Conference -- Bridgeport
Great American Conference -- Harding
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Findlay
Great Lakes Valley Conference -- Southern Indiana
Great Northwest Athletic Conference -- Seattle Pacific
Gulf South Conference -- North Alabama
Heartland Conference -- Texas A&M-International
Lone Star Conference -- Tarleton State
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association -- Missouri Southern State
Northeast-10 Conference -- Southern Connecticut State
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference -- Minnesota State Mankato
Pacific West Conference -- Chaminade
Peach Belt Conference -- South Carolina Aiken
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference -- East Stroudsburg
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference -- Metro State
South Atlantic Conference -- Lincoln Memorial
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Tuskegee
Sunshine State Conference -- Florida Southern

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

Anderson (S.C.)
Arkansas-Fort Smith
Arkansas Tech
Barry
Bellarmine
Bloomfield
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal State Bernardino
Cal State Chico
California Baptist
Carson-Newman
Central Missouri
Charleston (W. Va.)
Colorado Mines
Delta State
Dixie State
Drury
Fort Hays State
Franklin Pierce
Georgia Southwestern
Gannon
Glenville State
Georgia Regents Augusta
Indiana (Pennsylvania)
Indianapolis
Lake Superior State
Le Moyne
Michigan Tech
Midwestern State
Montevallo
New Haven
Northwest Missouri State
Saint Leo
Saint Anselm
St. Mary's (Texas)
Tampa
Colorado-Colorado Springs
West Alabama
West Chester
West Liberty
Winona State
Wisconsin-Parkside

Drury defeated Metro State 74-73 to win the 2013 NCAA Division II Men’s Elite Eight championship game in Atlanta, Ga.

For more information about the championship, log on to NCAA.com.

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