NCAA.com | May 10, 2016 Division III Softball Championship Field Announced Share INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship. The regional round will be held May 13-15. 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 20 and 21. The finals, hosted by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the City of Salem, will be held May 26-31 at Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, Virginia. All rounds will use a double-elimination format. Forty-three 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 18 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and the remaining institutions in Pool B. The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Penn State-Behrend American Southwest Conference East Texas Baptist Capital Athletic Conference Salisbury Centennial Conference Haverford City University of New York Athletic Conference Staten Island Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Wheaton (Illinois) Colonial States Athletic Conference Neumann Commonwealth Coast Conference Salve Regina Empire 8 Ithaca Great Northeast Athletic Conference Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) Great South Athletic Conference Agnes Scott Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Hanover Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Luther Landmark Conference Moravian Liberty League Rochester Little East Conference Western Connecticut State Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Worcester State Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Alma Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Messiah Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Manhattanville Midwest Conference Lake Forest Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference St. Thomas (Minnesota) New England Collegiate Conference Becker New England Small College Athletic Conference Williams New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference WPI New Jersey Athletic Conference Rowan North Atlantic Conference Castleton North Coast Athletic Conference Wittenberg North Eastern Athletic Conference Keuka Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Benedictine (Illinois) Northwest Conference Linfield Ohio Athletic Conference Heidelberg Old Dominion Athletic Conference Virginia Wesleyan Presidents' Athletic Conference St. Vincent Skyline Conference Mount Saint Mary (New York) Southern Athletic Association Berry Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Claremont-Mudd-Scripps St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Greenville Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Texas Lutheran State University of New York Athletic Conference SUNY Cortland Upper Midwest Athletic Conference Wisconsin-Superior USA South Athletic Conference Ferrum Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wisconsin-Whitewater The institution selected from Pool B was: Emory The 18 institutions selected from Pool C were: Aurora Birmingham-Southern Chicago Christopher Newport DePauw George Fox Illinois Wesleyan MIT Piedmont St. Catherine St. John Fisher Simpson Texas-Tyler The College of New Jersey Trine Tufts Washington U. in St. Louis Whitworth REGIONAL SITES AND HOST INSTITUTIONS (16): Alma, Michigan - Alma *Angola, Indiana - Trine Bloomington, Illinois - Illinois Wesleyan Cortland, New York - SUNY Cortland Decorah, Iowa - Luther Ewing, New Jersey - The College of New Jersey Ithaca, New York - Ithaca Lake Forest, Illinois - Lake Forest Medford, Massachusetts - Tufts Mount Berry, Georgia - Berry Newport News, Virginia - Christopher Newport Norfolk, Virginia - Virginia Wesleyan Rochester, New York - St. John Fisher Spokane, Washington - Whitworth Tyler, Texas - Texas-Tyler Williamstown, Massachusetts - Williams * The regional site at Angola, Indiana, will be conducted Thursday-Saturday, May 12-14. In 2015, Tufts defeated Texas-Tyler twice in the championship series to win its third consecutive NCAA softball championship. Tufts finished the season with a 51-0 record. Women's College World Series adds two days The Women's College World Series will have two extra days, allowing for schedule flexibility and additional rest for the players. READ MORE Video review challenges approved for softball The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved video review for softball beginning in the 2021-22 academic year. READ MORE Canada and Mexico softball play for bronze at the 2020 Olympics. All players competed in the NCAA When Canada and Mexico battled for the bronze medal in Tokyo, fans saw rosters made up entirely of former NCAA student-athletes. READ MORE