INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the 43 teams that will compete in the 2018 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 10-12, or Friday-Sunday, May 11-13. Claremont- Mudd-Scripps will host the team championship finals, which will be held May 21-26 at The Biszantz Family Tenns Center in Claremont, California. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 9.
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The championship provides for a 43-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 36 conference champions, which form "Pool A." One team is 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:
| AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS | |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Franciscan (15-9) |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Tyler (20-4) |
| Capital Athletic Conference | Mary Washington (20-5) |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins (18-3) |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Baruch (10-5) |
| College Conferences of Illinois and Wisconsin | Augustana (Illinois) (18-10) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cabrini (12-5) |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Nichols (19-3) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Messiah (10-7) |
| Empire 8 | Stevens Institute of Technology (15-9) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Wilkes (20-5) |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Ramapo (11-5) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Rose-Hulman (17-10) |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Coe (24-5) |
| Landmark Conference | Goucher (23-4) |
| Liberty League | Rensselaer (15-3) |
| Little East Conference | Salem State (13-4) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Hope (10-10) |
| Midwest Conference | Grinnell (22-4) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Gustavus Adolphus (23-8) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Bowdoin (19-1) |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference | MIT (11-7) |
| North Atlantic Conference | Colby-Sawyer (9-10) |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Kenyon (19-4) |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Concordia (Wisconsin) (15-11) |
| Northwest Conference | Whitman (16-7) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | John Carroll (12-8) |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Washington and Lee (12-6) |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference | Thomas More (13-3) |
| Skyline Conference | Yeshiva (13-5) |
| Southern Athletic Association | Sewanee (Univ. of the South) (21-5) |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (28-3) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) (15-11) |
| University Athletic Association | Chicago (16-4) |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Northwestern-St. Paul (13-10) |
| USA South Athletic Conference | North Carolina Wesleyan (18-3) |
The following schools, listed alphabetically, were selected to the championship from Pool B and Pool C candidates:
| POOL "B" SELECTIONS | |
|---|---|
| UC Santa Cruz (4-9) | |
| POOL "C" SELECTIONS | |
|---|---|
| Amherst (11-6) | Middlebury (20-4) |
| Carnegie Mellon (14-7) | Washington U. in St. Louis (15-8) |
| Emory (16-4) | Williams (13-4) |
Emory is the defending national champion, having defeated Claremont-M-S, 5-2, to claim the team title. For more information about the championship, including a championship bracket, log on to ncaa.com.
