INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Committee announced Monday the field of 61 teams for the 2014 NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championship, which begins Thursday and concludes with the national championship Dec. 6.
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Forty-two conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the championship. One team was selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions, as well as members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final 18 berths were reserved for Pool C, which includes institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that did not win their conference championship, and any remaining Pool B teams.
All tournament games leading up to the national semifinals will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. Three first-round games will be conducted Nov. 13 with the winners advancing to play Nov. 16 against three teams that earned first-round byes.
Thirteen sites will host four teams for first- and second-round competition Nov. 15-16. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 22-23.
Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the national semifinals, which take place Dec. 5 at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri, with Fontbonne and the Kansas City Sports Commission serving as co-hosts. The national championship game will be played Dec. 6. The Division III women’s soccer national semifinals and championship games will also be held at Swope Soccer Village on Dec. 5 and 6.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (42):
• Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference -- Penn State-Behrend
• American Southwest Conference -- Hardin-Simmons
• Capital Athletic Conference -- Christopher Newport
• Centennial Conference -- Muhlenberg
• City University of New York Athletic Conference -- Baruch
• College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin -- Wheaton (Ill.)
• Colonial States Athletic Conference -- Neumann
• Commonwealth Conference -- Messiah
• Commonwealth Coast Conference -- Nichols
• Empire 8 -- Stevens Institute of Technology
• Freedom Conference -- King’s (Pa.)
• Great Northeast Athletic Conference -- Johnson & Wales (R.I.)
• Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference -- Rose-Hulman
• Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Wartburg
• Landmark Conference -- Catholic
• Liberty League -- St. Lawrence
• Little East Conference -- Massachusetts Boston
• Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference -- Fitchburg State
• Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association -- Calvin
• Midwest Conference -- Carroll (Wisconsin)
• Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus
• New England Collegiate Conference -- Daniel Webster
• New England Small College Athletic Conference -- Bowdoin
• New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference -- Babson
• New Jersey Athletic Conference -- Montclair State
• North Atlantic Conference -- Husson
• North Coast Athletic Conference -- Kenyon
• North Eastern Athletic Conference -- Morrisville State
• Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference -- Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Northwest Conference -- Whitworth
• Ohio Athletic Conference -- Heidelberg
• Old Dominion Athletic Conference -- Lynchburg
• President’s Athletic Conference -- Thomas More
• Skyline Conference -- Purchase College
• St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Westminster (Mo.)
• Southern Athletic Association -- Berry
• Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Pomona-Pitzer
• Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference -- Trinity (Texas)
• State University of New York Athletic Conference -- SUNY Oneonta
• University Athletic Association -- Chicago
• Upper Midwest Athletic Association -- St. Scholastica
• USA South Athletic Conference -- Covenant
Pool B Berths (1):
• Wisconsin-Whitewater
Pool C Berths (18):
• Amherst
• Brandeis
• Coast Guard
• College at Brockport
• Dickinson
• Dominican (Ill.)
• Emory
• Franklin & Marshall
• Loras
• North Park
• Ohio Wesleyan
• Rochester (N.Y.)
• Rutgers-Newark
• Salisbury
• SUNY Cortland
• Texas-Dallas
• Tufts
• Wheaton (Mass.)
