NCAA.com | May 2, 2017 DI men's tennis subcommittee announces championship selections DI Men's Tennis: 2017 Selection Show Share INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 teams and 16 first- and second-round sites for the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship. Per NCAA policy, the top 16 seeds are guaranteed to host if a bid was submitted and criteria are met, and matchups between conference opponents were avoided in the first two rounds of the championship. View the 2017 championship bracket First- and second-round competition takes place May 12-13 and features four teams playing in a single-elimination format. The winner of each site advances to the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia, where the 16 teams will compete for the national championship May 18-23. The event will be hosted by the University of Georgia. “The 64-team field is impressive again this year. Congratulations to all participants for the hard work put in this year. We’re excited for the competition ahead as teams advance to Athens.” said Judy Van Horn, executive associate athletics director at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and the chair of the Division I Men’s and Women’s Tennis Committee. The matches shall be regulation dual matches. Three doubles matches consisting of six-game sets will be played for one team point, followed by six singles matches, each valued at one team point; played the best of three sets. No-ad scoring will be used and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) will be played at six-games-all. The team winning four or more team points advances in the championship bracket. During the championships, all matches will be stopped after the doubles point is decided. All remaining individual matches will be stopped once a team winner (four points won) has been determined. The score will only reflect completed matches. The complete list of teams and sites is included on the official bracket, which is available at www.NCAA.com. Thirty-one conferences receive automatic qualification into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship. Each conference and its automatic qualifier are listed below. Conference School American Athletic South Florida Atlantic Coast Virginia ASUN Florida Gulf Coast Atlantic 10 VCU Big East Butler Big Sky Idaho Big South Presbyterian Big Ten Ohio State Big 12 TCU Big West UC Santa Barbara Colonial University of North Carolina Wilmington Conference USA Rice Horizon Valparaiso Ivy Columbia MAAC Monmouth Mid-American Buffalo Mid-Eastern Florida A&M Missouri Valley Drake Mountain West Utah State Northeast Bryant Ohio Valley Tennessee Tech Pacific-12 Southern California Patriot Army West Point SEC Georgia Southern East Tennessee State Southland Lamar SWAC Jackson State Summit Denver Sun Belt Georgia State West Coast San Diego WAC University of Missouri-Kansas City Virginia defeats Kentucky to win the NCAA DI men's tennis championship for a 5th time Virginia is DI men's tennis national champion in the team bracket for the fifth time in program history. The Cavaliers swept Kentucky, 4-0, Sunday afternoon in Champaign, Illinois. READ MORE Barry wins 2022 men's DII tennis national title for third-straight championship Barry took down Wayne State, 4-1, to win its third-straight national championship and sixth since 2010. READ MORE 2022 NCAA DIII men's tennis individual championships selections The NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the individuals who will compete in the singles and doubles competition of the 2022 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships. READ MORE