INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2017 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship.
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Forty-three conferences have been granted automatic qualification for the 2017 championship, while 21 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.
Sixteen sites will host four teams for first and second-round competition Friday-Saturday, March 3-4. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional-round sites March 10-11. Winners of the four sectional games will advance to the semi-finals and finals March 17 and 18. All games, except the semi-finals and finals, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semi-finals and finals will be conducted at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va.
Conferences receiving automatic qualification are as follows:
| Conference | Automatic Qualifier Team |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Medaille (21-6) |
| American Southwest Conference | Hardin-Simmons (22-6) |
| Capital Athletic Conference | Christopher Newport (25-2) |
| Centennial Conference | Swarthmore (22-5) |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Staten Island (21-6) |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | North Central (Illinois) (17-10) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Neumann (25-2) |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Nichols (23-5) |
| Empire 8 | St. John Fisher (22-5) |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Albertus Magnus (23-4) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Hanover (23-3) |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wartburg (19-9) |
| Landmark Conference | Scranton (21-6) |
| Liberty League | Union (New York) (16-10) |
| Little East Conference | Eastern Connecticut State (20-8) |
| Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference | Salem State (17-10) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Calvin (17-10) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Lycoming (23-4) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Misericordia (20-7) |
| Midwest Conference | Ripon (20-5) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Bethel (Minnesota) (21-6) |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Becker (19-8) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Middlebury (24-3) |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference | MIT (21-6) |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Ramapo (25-2) |
| North Atlantic Conference | Husson (21-6) |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Wooster (21-7) |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Morrisville State (22-6) |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Benedictine (Illinois) (23-4) |
| Northwest Conference | Whitman (27-0) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Marietta (24-4) |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Guilford (23-5) |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference | Thomas More (22-6) |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State (20-7) |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Westminster (Missouri) (19-8) |
| Southern Athletic Association | Rhodes (17-10) |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (22-4) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran (19-9) |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | Oswego State (21-6) |
| University Athletic Association | Washington U. in St. Louis (20-5) |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Northwestern-St. Paul (20-7) |
| USA South Athletic Conference | LaGrange (18-10) |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-River Falls (24-3) |
| Pool C |
|---|
| Amherst (17-7) |
| Salisbury (20-7) |
| Augustana (Illinois) (19-8) |
| Skidmore (19-7) |
| Babson (25-2) |
| St. Lawrence (20-6) |
| Cabrini (19-7) |
| St. Thomas (Minnesota) (19-7) |
| Emory (18-7) |
| Susquehanna (21-5) |
| Endicott (22-6) |
| Tufts (20-6) |
| Hope (21-6) |
| Wesleyan (Connecticut) (19-6) |
| Keene State (19-9) |
| Whitworth (23-4) |
| Mount St. Joseph (20-7) |
| Williams (19-8) |
| New Jersey City (21-7) |
| Wisconsin-Oshkosh (17-10) |
| Rochestesr (New York) (21-4) |
| Wisconsin-Whitewater (21-6) |
