Two-time reigning champ Virginia Wesleyan heads 62-team NCAA Division III field
INDIANAPOLIS — Top-ranked, two-time defending national champion Virginia Wesleyan heads a solid 62-team field for the 2019 NCAA Division III Softball Championship, chosen by the NCAA Division III Softball Committee and announced Monday at NCAA.com.
Forty-two conferences received an automatic qualification (Pool A), and two institutions were selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and institutions from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. The 18 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and the remaining institutions in Pool B.
Four teams each will play at 14 regional sites and the other two regionals will consist of three teams apiece. Games will be played Friday through Sunday (May 10-12), with the exception of the Bloomington, Ill., and St. Paul, Minn., regionals, which will go Thursday to Saturday (May 9-11).
Regional winners will advance to the May 17-19 Super Regional round, with the final eight teams after that heading to the University of Texas-Tyler for the finals on May 23-28 at Suddenlink Field.
All rounds will use a double-elimination format.
To see the complete bracket, click HERE. For the latest regional rankings, click HERE. The latest Division III statistical leaders can be found HERE.
To watch a replay of the NCAA selection show, click HERE.
The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were:
Conference
School
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
Mount Aloysius
American Rivers Conference
Central (Iowa)
American Southwest Conference
East Texas Baptist
Capital Athletic Conference
Christopher Newport
Centennial Conference
Dickinson
City University of New York Athletic Conference
Staten Island
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
Illinois Wesleyan
Colonial States Athletic Conference
Wilson
Commonwealth Coast Conference
Endicott
Empire 8
St. John Fisher
Great Northeast Athletic Conference
U of St. Joseph (Connecticut)
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
Transylvania
Landmark Conference
Scranton
Liberty League
Ithaca
Little East Conference
Eastern Connecticut State
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference
Framingham State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Calvin
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth
Arcadia
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom
Manhattanville
Midwest Conference
Lake Forest
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
St. Thomas (Minnesota)
New England Collegiate Conference
Eastern Nazarene
New England Small College Athletic Conference
Tufts
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
New Jersey Athletic Conference
The College of New Jersey
North Atlantic Conference
Husson
North Coast Athletic Conference
DePauw
North Eastern Athletic Conference
Penn State-Berks
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Northwest Conference
Linfield
Ohio Athletic Conference
Otterbein
Old Dominion Athletic Conference
Virginia Wesleyan
Presidents’ Athletic Conference
Saint Vincent
Skyline Conference
Farmingdale State
Southern Athletic Association
Birmingham-Southern
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Whittier
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
Texas Lutheran
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Eureka
State University of New York Athletic Conference
SUNY Cortland
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference
Northwestern-St. Paul
USA South Athletic Conference
Maryville (Tennessee)
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Wisconsin-La Crosse
The institutions selected from Pool B were:
Emory
Thomas More
The 18 institutions selected from Pool C were:
Brandeis
Carthage
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Coe
Emory & Henry
Kean
Lynchburg
MIT
Piedmont
Randolph-Macon
Rowan
Saint Benedict
SUNY Geneseo
Trine
Wartburg
Williams
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-Whitewater
REGIONAL SITES AND HOST INSTITUTIONS (16):
Atlanta, Georgia – Emory
*Bloomington, Illinois – Illinois Wesleyan
Cambridge, Massachusetts – MIT
Claremont, California – Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Cortland, New York – SUNY Cortland
Crestview Hill, Kentucky – Thomas More
Ewing, New Jersey – The College of New Jersey
Greencastle, Indiana – DePauw
Ithaca, New York – Ithaca
Marshall, Texas – East Texas Baptist
Medford, Massachusetts – Tufts
Pella, Iowa – Central (Iowa)
*St. Paul, Minnesota – St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Union, New Jersey – Kean
Virginia Beach, Virginia – Virginia Wesleyan
Whitewater, Wisconsin – Wisconsin-Whitewater
* The regional sites at Bloomington, Ill., and St. Paul, Minn., will be conducted Thursday-Saturday, May 9-11.
— Information courtesy of NCAA.com
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