The 62-team field vying for the DIII Softball Championship has been set. Regional Round play begins May 12.
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 12-14. 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 19 and 20. The finals, hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City All-Sports Association, will be held May 25-30 at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. All rounds will use a doubleelimination format.
2017 NCAA Division III Softball Championship Bracket
Forty-two conferences received an 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.
The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were:
| Conference | Team |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Behrend |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Dallas |
| Capital Athletic Conference | Christopher Newport |
| Centennial Conference | Franklin & Marshall |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Staten Island |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Illinois Wesleyan |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Neumann |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Salve Regina |
| Empire 8 | St. John Fisher |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Transylvania |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Luther |
| Landmark Conference | Susquehanna |
| Liberty League | Rensselaer |
| Little East Conference | Massachusetts Boston |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Framingham State |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Alma |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Widener |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Manhattanville |
| Midwest Conference | St. Norbert |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | St. Catherine |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Lesley |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Williams |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | Babson |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Kean |
| North Atlantic Conference | Thomas |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | DePauw |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Penn State-Berks |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Benedictine (Illinois) |
| Northwest Conference | Whitworth |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Otterbein |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Virginia Wesleyan |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | Thomas More |
| Skyline Conference | Mount Saint Mary (New York) |
| Southern Athletic Association | Berry |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | La Verne |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Greenville |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Cortland |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | St. Scholastica |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Averett |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Whitewater |
The institution selected from Pool B was:
Chicago
The 19 institutions selected from Pool C were:
Amherst
Central (Iowa)
Coe
East Texas Baptist
Emory & Henry
Hope
Ithaca
Messiah
Ramapo
Randolph-Macon
Rowan
Springfield
St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Texas-Tyler
Trine
Washington U. in St. Louis
William Paterson
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
REGIONAL SITES AND HOST INSTITUTIONS (16):
| Location | School |
|---|---|
| Alma, Michigan | Alma |
| Ashland, Virginia | Randolph-Macon |
| Babson Park, Massachusetts | Babson |
| Cortland, New York | SUNY Cortland |
| Decorah, Iowa | Luther |
| Ithaca, New York | Ithaca |
| La Crosse, Wisconsin | Wisconsin-La Crosse |
| Marshall, Texas | East Texas Baptist |
| Mount Berry, Georgia | Berry |
| Pella, Iowa | Central (Iowa) |
| Rochester, New York | St. John Fisher |
| Springfield, Massachusetts | Springfield |
| Tyler, Texas | Texas-Tyler |
| Union, New Jersey | Kean |
| *Whitewater, Wisconsin | Wisconsin-Whitewater |
| Williamstown, Massachusetts | Williams |
* The regional site at Whitewater, Wisconsin will be conducted Thursday-Saturday, May 11-13.
In 2016, Texas-Tyler defeated Messiah in the championship series to win its first NCAA softball championship. For more information about the Division III Softball Championship, log on to ncaa.com.
