The NCAA DIII Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the 43 teams that will compete for the title.
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the 43 teams that will compete in the 2017 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, Thursday-Saturday, May 11-13, or Friday-Sunday, May 12-14. University of the South and the Chattanooga Sports Commission will host the team championship finals, which will be held May 22-27 at The Champions Tennis Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 10.
2017 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championship Bracket
The championship provides for a 43-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 35 conference champions, which form "Pool A." Two teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining six 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:
| Conference | School |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Franciscan (10-10) |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Tyler (18-6) |
| Capital Athletic Conference | Christopher Newport (14-9) |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins (16-2) |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Baruch (11-2) |
| College Conferences of Illinois and Wisconsin | Wheaton (Illinois) (17-7) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cabrini (11-5) |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Nichols (18-3) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Messiah (12-5) |
| Empire 8 | Stevens Institute of Technology(12-13) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Wilkes (22-3) |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Ramapo (12-7) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Rose-Hulman (19-8) |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Coe (25-5) |
| Landmark Conference | Goucher (15-10) |
| Liberty League | Skidmore (11-6) |
| Little East Conference | Massachusetts Boston (10-7) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Kalamazoo (18-1) |
| Midwest Conference | Grinnell (18-9) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Gustavus Adolphus (24-8) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Bowdoin (18-4) |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference | MIT (17-4) |
| North Atlantic Conference | Colby-Sawyer (14-10) |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Kenyon (13-10) |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Concordia Wisconsin (20-6) |
| Northwest Conference | Whitman (24-6) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | John Carroll (16-7) |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Washington and Lee (16-6) |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference | Thomas More (14-5) |
| Skyline Conference | Yeshiva (15-1) |
| Southern Athletic Association | Sewanee (Univ. of the South) (21-3) |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (28-3) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) (16-10) |
| University Athletic Association | Emory (17-4) |
| USA South Athletic Conference | North Carolina Wesleyan (19-4) |
The following schools, listed alphabetically, were selected to the championship from Pool B and Pool C candidates:
Pool "B" Selections:
• The College of New Jersey (14-3)
• Wisconsin-Whitewater (14-11)
Pool "C" Selections:
• Amherst (22-5)
• Chicago (17-4)
• Middlebury (18-3)
• Washington U. in St. Louis (16-4)
• Wesleyan (CT) (13-3)
• Williams (13-7)
Bowdoin is the defending national champion, having defeated Middlebury, 5-0, to claim the team title. For more information about the championship, including a championship bracket, log on to ncaa.com.
