NCAA | March 7, 2021 2021 DII men's basketball championship field announced DII Men's Basketball: 2021 Selection Show Share The NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 48 teams that will compete in the 2021 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championship. Sixteen conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 32 teams were selected at large by the committee. Seven regional tournaments, consisting of six teams each will be conducted March 13, 14 and 16. The west regional will be conducted March 12, 13 and 15. The eight regional champions will advance to the quarterfinals in conjunction with the 2021 NCAA Division II Men’s Elite Eight. The quarterfinal, semifinal and championship games will be conducted at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana March 24, 25 & 27. Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows: Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Bloomfield Conference Carolinas Belmont Abbey East Coast Conference St. Thomas Aquinas Great American Conference Arkansas-Monticello Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Ashland Great Lakes Valley Conference Lewis Great Midwest Athletic Conference Malone Gulf South Conference Valdosta State Lone Star Conference West Texas A&M Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Washburn Mountain East Conference Fairmont State Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Northern State Pacific West Conference Biola Peach Belt Conference Flagler Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Colorado Mesa South Atlantic Conference Carson-Newman LIVE UPDATES: Keep up with the 2021 DII men's basketball tournament Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows: Alabama Hunstville Caldwell Charleston (WV) Colorado School of Mines Daemen DBU Dominican (NY) Emmanuel (GA) Fresno Pacific Georgia Southwestern Hillsdale Lee (TN) Lincoln Memorial Mercyhurst Michigan Tech MSU Moorhead Missouri Western Northwest Missouri State Northwest Nazarene Nyack Oklahoma Baptist Point Loma Queens (NC) Southern Arkansas Southern Indiana Truman Tusculum Wayne State (MI) Wayne State (NE) West Georgia West Liberty Northwest Missouri State defeated Point Loma, 64-58, to win the 2019 NCAA Division II Men’s Elite Eight championship game in Evansville, Indiana. Five new members appointed to NCAA DI men's basketball committee The DI men's basketball committee will feature five new members for the 2021-22 season. The roster expands to 12 for the first time. READ MORE March Madness 365 with Andy Katz podcast NCAA.com's Andy Katz covers the newsmakers in college basketball all year long. New episodes every Tuesday. READ MORE 10 men's basketball programs who were big winners after a flurry of roster moves Here are Andy Katz's top 10 winners, based on which players returned from the portal to their previous school, which schools added a talented player or two from the portal and which players elected to return to school rather than declare for the NBA draft. READ MORE