INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2017 championship.
Forty-three conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the 2017 championship. There is one berth reserved for Pool B and the final 20 berths are reserved for Pool C, which includes institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any Pool B teams.
Interactive Bracket Printable Bracket
Sixteen first/second-round sites will be conducted March 3-4. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 10-11. Winners of the four sectional sites will advance to the national semifinals and final March 17-18. All games, except the semifinals/final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semifinals/final will be conducted at Van Noord Arena on the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (43):
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Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference |
La Roche College (23-4) |
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American Southwest Conference |
University of Texas at Dallas (25-3) |
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Capital Athletic Conference |
Christopher Newport University (25-2) |
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Centennial Conference |
Muhlenberg College (20-8) |
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City University of New York Athletic Conference |
College of Staten Island (22-6) |
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College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin |
Wheaton College (Illinois) (23-4) |
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Colonial States Athletic Conference |
Gwynedd Mercy University (18-10) |
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Commonwealth Coast Conference |
University of New England (23-5) |
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Empire 8 Conference |
Ithaca College (24-3) |
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Great Northeast Conference |
Saint Joseph’s College (Maine) (24-4) |
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Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (24-3) |
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Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Wartburg College (25-2) |
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Landmark Conference |
University of Scranton (24-3) |
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Liberty League |
Rochester Institute of Technology (19-8) |
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Little East Conference |
Keene State College (21-7) |
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Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Westfield State University (19-8) |
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Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Trine University (24-2) |
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Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth |
Messiah College (25-2) |
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Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom |
Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham (24-3) |
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Midwest Conference |
St. Norbert College (20-5) |
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Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) (27-0) |
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New England Collegiate Conference |
Regis College (Massachusetts) (22-6) |
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New England Small College Athletic Conference |
Amherst College (27-0) |
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New England Women’s & Men’s Athletic Conference |
Babson College (22-5) |
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New Jersey Athletic Conference |
Montclair State University (25-2) |
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North Atlantic Conference |
Husson University (22-4) |
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North Coast Athletic Conference |
DePauw University (26-2) |
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North Eastern Athletic Conference |
State University of New York Polytechnic University (25-2) |
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Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference |
Lakeland University (20-7) |
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Northwest Conference |
Whitman College (23-4) |
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Ohio Athletic Conference |
Ohio Northern University (27-0) |
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Old Dominion Athletic Conference |
Guilford College (24-3) |
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Presidents’ Athletic Conference |
Thomas More College (27-0) |
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Skyline Conference |
The Sage Colleges (20-8) |
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Southern Athletic Association |
Hendrix College (18-10) |
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Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges (19-8) |
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Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Trinity University (Texas) (26-1) |
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St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Eureka College (20-7) |
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State University of New York Athletic Conference |
State University of New York at New Paltz (18-8) |
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University Athletic Association |
Washington University in St. Louis (23-2) |
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Upper Midwest Athletic Conference |
University of Wisconsin-Superior (23-4) |
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USA South Athletic Conference |
Piedmont College (21-7) |
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Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (21-5) |
Pool B Berth (1):
University of California, Santa Cruz (13-10)
Pool C Berths (20):
| Albright College (22-5) |
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Bowdoin College (21-4) |
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Calvin College (22-5) |
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Catholic University (23-4) |
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University of Chicago (18-7) |
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DeSales University (20-7) |
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Eastern Connecticut State University (20-8) |
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George Fox University (21-5) |
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Gustavus Adolphus College (25-2) |
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Hope College (22-4) |
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Illinois Wesleyan University (18-9) |
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Lynchburg College (22-6) |
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Marymount University (Virginia) (22-5) |
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University of Mary Washington (23-4) |
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University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (22-5) |
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State University of New York at Geneseo (26-1) |
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University of Puget Sound (25-2) |
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University of Rochester (17-8) |
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Tufts University (25-2) |
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University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh (24-2) |
The selection announcement and the full bracket are posted at www.NCAA.com.