NCAA.com | November 9, 2015 NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee selects championship field DIII Men's Soccer: 2015 Selection Show Share INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Committee announced the field of 61 teams for the 2015 NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championship, which begins Thursday and concludes with the national championship Dec. 5. 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. BRACKET: Interactive | Printable All tournament games leading up to the national semifinals will be played on the campuses of the competing institutions. Three first-round games will be conducted Nov. 12 with the winners advancing to play Sunday, Nov. 15, against the three institutions that earned first-round byes. Thirteen sites will host four teams for first-and second-round competition Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 14-15. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 21-22. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the national semifinals, which take place Dec. 4 at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri, with Fontbonne University and the Kansas City Sports Commission serving as co-hosts. The national championship game will be played Dec. 5. The Division III women’s soccer national semifinals and championship games will also be held at Swope Soccer Village Dec. 4 and 5. Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (42): Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference - Mount Aloysius American Southwest Conference - Texas-Dallas Capital Athletic Conference - Salisbury Centennial Conference - Haverford City University of New York Athletic Conference - CCNY College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin - Carthage Colonial States Athletic Conference - Cabrini Commonwealth Coast Conference - Gordon Empire 8 - Stevens Institute of Technology Great Northeast Athletic Conference - Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference - Rose-Hulman Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Loras Landmark Conference - Scranton Liberty League - St. Lawrence Little East Conference - Massachusetts Boston Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference - Bridgewater State Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Calvin Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth - Lycoming Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom - Eastern Midwest Conference - Lake Forest Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - St. Olaf 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 - Rutgers-Camden North Atlantic Conference - Thomas (Maine) 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 - Ohio Northern Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Washington and Lee Presidents’ Athletic Conference - Westminster (Pennsylvania) Skyline Conference - The Sage Colleges Southern Athletic Association - Millsaps Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Redlands Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference - Trinity (Texas) St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Westminster (Missouri) State University of New York Athletic Conference - SUNY Oneonta University Athletic Association - Brandeis Upper Midwest Athletic Conference - St. Scholastica USA South Athletic Conference - Methodist Pool B Berths (1): Wisconsin-Whitewater Pool C Berths (18): Amherst Carnegie Mellon Chicago DePauw Dickinson Franklin & Marshall Macalester MIT Montclair State Ohio Wesleyan Plattsburgh State Rensselaer Rowan Thomas More Tufts Washington U. in St. Louis Wheaton (Illinois) Wisconsin-Oshkosh Entire DI men’s and women’s soccer tournaments to be held in North Carolina The Division I Competition Oversight Committee approved a proposal for 2021 NCAA Division I men's and women's soccer championships to be held entirely in Cary, NC and surrounding areas. READ MORE Men's college soccer: Temple knocks off No. 2 SMU in historic victory Temple men's soccer picked up a historic victory, knocking off No. 2 SMU Saturday night. It was the highest-ranked win in Owls program history. READ MORE DII Report: There's a new No. 1 in the women's basketball Power 10 rankings Drury lost for the first time in 42 games, causing a stir in the latest DII women's basketball rankings. Lander men's soccer also made some noise on the pitch. That and more in this week's DII Report. READ MORE