NCAA.com | May 5, 2014 DIII Softball tournament selected DIII Softball: 2014 Selection Show Share INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship. The championship will use a new format this year that includes a super regional round of competition. The regional rounds will be held May 9-11. Four teams will compete at 14 regional sites and three teams will compete at two regional sites. The team advancing from each regional will compete in the super regional round May 16 and 17. The finals, hosted by Texas-Tyler, will be held May 22-27 at Suddenlink Field in Tyler, Texas. All rounds will use a double-elimination format. Forty-two conferences received automatic qualification (Pool A). One institution was selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and institutions from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. The 19 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and the remaining institutions in Pool B. Printable Brackets: Regionals Final Site The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference - Penn State-Altoona American Southwest Conference - Texas-Tyler Capital Athletic Conference - Christopher Newport Centennial Conference - Haverford City University of New York Athletic Conference - Staten Island College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin - Illinois Wesleyan Colonial States Athletic Conference - Marywood Commonwealth Coast Conference - Endicott Commonwealth Conference - Lebanon Valley Empire 8 - Ithaca Freedom Conference - Manhattanville Great Northeast Athletic Conference - St. Joseph's (Maine) Great South Athletic Conference - Agnes Scott Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference - Anderson (Ind.) Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Luther Landmark Conference - Catholic Liberty League - Rochester Little East Conference - Keene State Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference - Bridgewater State Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Trine Midwest Conference - Lake Forest Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - St. Thomas (Minn.) New England Collegiate Conference - Lesley New England Small College Athletic Conference - Tufts New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference - Wellesley New Jersey Athletic Conference - Rowan North Atlantic Conference - Husson North Coast Athletic Conference - DePauw North Eastern Athletic Conference - Penn State-Berks Northern Athletics Conference - Benedictine (Ill.) Northwest Conference - Linfield Ohio Athletic Conference - Muskingum Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Virginia Wesleyan Presidents' Athletic Conference - Washington & Jefferson Skyline Conference - Farmingdale State Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Claremont M-S Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference - Texas Lutheran St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Fontbonne State University of New York Athletic Conference - SUNY Oneonta Upper Midwest Athletic Conference - St. Scholastica USA South Athletic Conference - Piedmont Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Wisconsin-Whitewater The institution selected from Pool B was: Emory The 19 institutions selected from Pool C were: Alfred Augustana (Ill.) Central (Iowa) Chicago Coe East Texas Baptist Kean Lynchburg Messiah Montclair State North Central (Ill.) Redlands Salisbury Thomas More Washington (Mo.) Western Connecticut State Wheaton (Mass.) William Patterson Williams REGIONAL SITES (16): Angola, Ind. - Trine, host Atlanta, Ga. - Emory, host Bloomington, Ill. - Illinois Wesleyan, host Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Coe, host Chicago, Ill. - Chicago, host Ithaca, N.Y. - Ithaca, host Montclair, N.J. - Montclair State, host Norfolk, Va. - Virginia Wesleyan Pella, Iowa - Central (Iowa), host Redlands, Calif. - Redlands, host Rochester, N.Y. - Rochester, host Salisbury, Md. - Salisbury, host Union, N.J. - Kean, host Tyler, Texas - Texas-Tyler, host Wellesley, Mass. - Wellesley, host Williamstown, Mass. - Williams, host In 2013, Tufts defeated Cortland State 6-5 to win its first NCAA softball championship. Tufts finished the season with a 46-3 record. Panel approves double first base experimental rule in college softball NCAA softball games can be played using a double first base on an experimental basis for the 2022-23 academic year. READ MORE How the Women's College World Series works These are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about the Women's College World Series, including the format and history of the DI college softball championship. READ MORE The top 150 college softball players in 2022 These are the top 150 college softball players from the 2022 season, ranked by the experts from d1softball.com based on offensive stats, defensive impact, how valuable they were to their team and postseason success. READ MORE