INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2022 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship.
The championship provides for a 64-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 44 conference champions, which form “Pool A.” The remaining 20 teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference’s AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
Sixteen sites will host four teams for first- and second-round competition Friday-Saturday, March 4-5. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 11-12. Winners of the four sectional championship games will advance to the semi-finals and finals March 18 and 19. All games, except the semi-finals and finals, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semi-finals and finals will be held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, IN.
Conferences receiving automatic qualification are as follows:
| Conference | Automatic Qualifier team |
|---|---|
|
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference |
Medaille (15-12) |
|
American Rivers Conference |
Dubuque (21-6) |
|
American Southwest Conference |
Mary Hardin-Baylor (25-2) |
|
Atlantic East Conference |
Neumann (21-7) |
|
Centennial Conference |
Johns Hopkins (22-3) |
|
City University of New York Athletic Conference |
Baruch (20-7) |
|
Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference |
Christopher Newport (24-2) |
|
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin |
Elmhurst (22-6) |
|
Colonial States Athletic Conference |
Wilson (18-7) |
|
Commonwealth Coast Conference |
Nichols (25-3) |
|
Empire 8 |
Nazareth (23-4) |
|
Great Northeast Athletic Conference |
U of St. Joseph (Connecticut) (26-1) |
|
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Franklin (14-15) |
|
Landmark Conference |
Susquehanna (23-4) |
|
Liberty League |
Vassar (18-8) |
|
Little East Conference |
Keene State (20-6) |
|
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Westfield State (22-4) |
|
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Hope (22-6) |
|
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth |
Hood (20-6) |
|
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom |
Stevens (16-8) |
|
Midwest Conference |
Cornell College (19-8) |
|
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Saint John’s (Minnesota) (23-4) |
|
New England Collegiate Conference |
Mitchell (17-10) |
|
New England Small College Athletic Conference |
Wesleyan (Connecticut) (24-3) |
|
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (24-2) |
|
New Jersey Athletic Conference |
Stockton (24-4) |
|
North Atlantic Conference |
Husson (15-9) |
|
North Coast Athletic Conference |
Wabash (24-3) |
|
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference |
Marian (Wisconsin) (19-8) |
|
Northwest Conference |
Whitworth (22-4) |
|
Ohio Athletic Conference |
Marietta (25-2) |
|
Old Dominion Athletic Conference |
Randolph-Macon (27-1) |
|
Presidents’ Athletic Conference |
Washington and Jefferson (24-4) |
|
Skyline Conference |
Yeshiva (25-3) |
|
Southern Athletic Association |
Berry (23-2) |
|
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Pomona-Pitzer (21-4) |
|
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Trinity (Texas) (22-5) |
|
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Blackburn (11-17) |
|
State University of New York Athletic Conference |
Oswego State (25-2) |
|
United East Conference |
Penn State Harrisburg (23-3) |
|
University Athletic Association |
Emory (19-5) |
|
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference |
Northwestern-St. Paul (22-6) |
|
USA South Athletic Conference |
Averett (17-11) |
|
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Wisconsin-Oshkosh (22-3) |
| Pool C |
|---|
| Babson (18-7) |
| Calvin (20-8) |
| Case Western Reserve (18-6) |
| Chapman (22-4) |
| DeSales (22-5) |
| Eastern (21-5) |
| Emerson (18-7) |
| Heidelberg (18-7) |
| Illinois Wesleyan (21-5) |
| Massachusetts Dartmouth (24-4) |
| Mount Union (23-4) |
| Rensselaer (21-5) |
| Rochester (New York) (17-8) |
| Rowan (23-5) |
| Swarthmore (22-5) |
| Washington University in St. Louis (18-7) |
| Wheaton (Illinois) (20-6) |
| Williams (17-4) |
| Wisconsin-La Crosse (20-6) |
| Wisconsin-Platteville (21-5) |
