NCAA.com | March 1, 2017 DIII women's basketball champ field announced Share 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): Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference La Roche College (23-4) American Southwest Conference University of Texas at Dallas (25-3) Capital Athletic Conference Christopher Newport University (25-2) Centennial Conference Muhlenberg College (20-8) City University of New York Athletic Conference College of Staten Island (22-6) College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Wheaton College (Illinois) (23-4) Colonial States Athletic Conference Gwynedd Mercy University (18-10) Commonwealth Coast Conference University of New England (23-5) Empire 8 Conference Ithaca College (24-3) Great Northeast Conference Saint Joseph’s College (Maine) (24-4) Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (24-3) Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wartburg College (25-2) Landmark Conference University of Scranton (24-3) Liberty League Rochester Institute of Technology (19-8) Little East Conference Keene State College (21-7) Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Westfield State University (19-8) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Trine University (24-2) Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Messiah College (25-2) Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham (24-3) Midwest Conference St. Norbert College (20-5) Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) (27-0) New England Collegiate Conference Regis College (Massachusetts) (22-6) New England Small College Athletic Conference Amherst College (27-0) New England Women’s & Men’s Athletic Conference Babson College (22-5) New Jersey Athletic Conference Montclair State University (25-2) North Atlantic Conference Husson University (22-4) North Coast Athletic Conference DePauw University (26-2) North Eastern Athletic Conference State University of New York Polytechnic University (25-2) Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Lakeland University (20-7) Northwest Conference Whitman College (23-4) Ohio Athletic Conference Ohio Northern University (27-0) Old Dominion Athletic Conference Guilford College (24-3) Presidents’ Athletic Conference Thomas More College (27-0) Skyline Conference The Sage Colleges (20-8) Southern Athletic Association Hendrix College (18-10) Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges (19-8) Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Trinity University (Texas) (26-1) St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Eureka College (20-7) State University of New York Athletic Conference State University of New York at New Paltz (18-8) University Athletic Association Washington University in St. Louis (23-2) Upper Midwest Athletic Conference University of Wisconsin-Superior (23-4) USA South Athletic Conference Piedmont College (21-7) 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) Bowdoin College (21-4) Calvin College (22-5) Catholic University (23-4) University of Chicago (18-7) DeSales University (20-7) Eastern Connecticut State University (20-8) George Fox University (21-5) Gustavus Adolphus College (25-2) Hope College (22-4) Illinois Wesleyan University (18-9) Lynchburg College (22-6) Marymount University (Virginia) (22-5) University of Mary Washington (23-4) University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (22-5) State University of New York at Geneseo (26-1) University of Puget Sound (25-2) University of Rochester (17-8) Tufts University (25-2) University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh (24-2) The selection announcement and the full bracket are posted at www.NCAA.com. 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