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.
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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
