INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the 43 teams that will compete in the 2016 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second and third rounds played at regional sites, May 13-15. Kalamazoo College will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 23-25 at Stowe Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 11.
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The championships provide for a 43-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 35 conference champions, which form "Pool A." Three teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining five teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification:
| Automatic Qualifiers | |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference |
Franciscan |
| American Southwest Conference |
Texas-Tyler |
| Capital Athletic Conference |
Mary Washington |
| Centennial Conference |
Johns Hopkins |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference |
Hunter |
| College Conferences of Illinois and Wisconsin |
Carthage |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference |
Gwynedd Mercy |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference |
Nichols |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth |
Messiah |
| Empire 8 |
Stevens |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom |
Wilkes |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference |
Ramapo |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Rose-Hulman |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Coe |
| Landmark Conference |
Goucher |
| Liberty League |
Skidmore |
| Little East Conference |
Southern Maine |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Kalamazoo |
| Midwest Conference |
Grinnell |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Gustavus Adolphus |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference |
Middlebury |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference |
MIT |
| North Atlantic Conference |
Colby-Sawyer |
| North Coast Athletic Conference |
Kenyon |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference |
Edgewood |
| Northwest Conference |
Whitman |
| Ohio Athletic Conference |
John Carroll |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference |
Washington and Lee |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference |
Grove City |
| Skyline Conference |
Yeshiva |
| Southern Athletic Association |
Sewanee (University of the South) |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Trinity (Texas) |
| University Athletic Association |
Emory |
| USA South Athletic Conference |
North Carolina Wesleyan |
The following schools were selected to the championships from Pool B and Pool C candidates:
POOL "B" SELECTIONS:
The College of New Jersey (10-6) UC Santa Cruz (6-7) Wisconsin-Whitewater (22-6)
POOL "C" SELECTIONS:
Chicago (15-5) Bowdoin (15-3) Carnegie Mellon (16-6) Case (21-7) Washington U. in St. Louis (16-5)
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps is the defending national champion, having defeated Middlebury, 5-0, to claim the team title.