Field of 64 teams for the 2019 DIII Championship revealed

The NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Committee announced the field of 64 teams for the 2019 championship today. The field includes 43 teams that earned automatic qualifications as the winners of their conference tournament. Thomas More College is the lone team in Pool B as the team does not have a conference affiliation and will move to the NAIA at the beginning of the 2019-2020 season. Twenty teams that are not conference champions round out the field in Pool C.

Date and venue details:

• Sixteen first/second-round sites will be conducted March 1-2.
• Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 8-9.
• Winners of the four sectional sites will advance to the national semifinals and final March 15-16.
• All games, except the semifinals/final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions.
• The semifinals/final will be conducted at Cregger Center on the campus of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

Interactive Bracket || Printable Bracket || NCAA Division III Top 25 Coaches’ Poll for Feb. 25, 2019

Automatic Qualifiers

Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference	Hilbert College (22-5)
American Rivers Conference	Wartburg College (24-3)
American Southwest Conference	University of Texas at Dallas (24-4)
Capital Athletic Conference	Christopher Newport University (23-5)
Centennial Conference	Haverford College (21-6)
City University of New York Athletic Conference	Hunter College (18-9)
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin	Illinois Wesleyan University (24-3)
Colonial States Athletic Conference	Rosemont College (24-3)
Commonwealth Coast Conference	Western New England University (20-8)
Empire 8 Conference	Hartwick College (22-4)
Great Northeast Conference	Emmanuel College (Massachusetts) (23-5)
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference	Transylvania University (25-2)
Landmark Conference	Scranton (25-2)
Liberty League	Ithaca College (22-5)
Little East Conference	Eastern Connecticut State University (19-8)
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference	Westfield State University (18-9)
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Trine University (25-2)
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth	Messiah College (26-1)
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom	DeSales University (25-2)
Midwest Conference	Ripon College (19-8)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) (26-1)
New England Collegiate Conference	New England College (19-9)
New England Small College Athletic Conference	Tufts University (25-2)
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (21-7)
New Jersey Athletic Conference	Rutgers-Newark (16-12)
North Atlantic Conference	Husson University (19-8)
North Coast Athletic Conference	DePauw University (24-4)
North Eastern Athletic Conference	SUNY-Poly (23-5)
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference	Wisconsin Lutheran College (26-1)
Northwest Conference	George Fox University (24-3)
Ohio Athletic Conference	John Carroll University (22-6)
Old Dominion Athletic Conference	Shenandoah University (22-6)
Presidents’ Athletic Conference	Saint Vincent College (23-4)
Skyline Conference	U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (22-3)
Southern Athletic Association	Rhodes College (17-11)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Pomona-Pitzer Colleges (22-5)
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference	Texas Lutheran University (19-9)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Greenville University (23-4)
State University of New York Athletic Conference	SUNY-New Paltz (23-4)
University Athletic Association	Washington University-St. Louis (23-4)
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference	Bethany Lutheran College (22-6)
USA South Athletic Conference	Piedmont College (23-5)
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Wisconsin-Oshkosh (24-3)

Pool B Berth (1): 
Thomas More University (27-0)

Pool C Berths (20): 
Amherst College (23-3)
Baldwin Wallace University (19-7)
Bowdoin College (26-1)
University of Chicago (19-6)
Emory University (19-6)
Gettysburg College (22-5)
Hope College (23-4)
Johns Hopkins University (22-4)
Loras College (22-5)
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (25-3)
Middlebury College (19-7)
Mount Saint Mary College (New York) (22-5)
Oglethorpe University (22-6)
Rochester Institute of Technology (20-7)
Saint Joseph’s College (Maine) (27-1)
Smith College (21-6)
State University of New York at Geneseo (23-4)
Vassar College (21-6)
Wheaton College (Illinois) (22-5)
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (18-9)

NCAA Division III Top 25 Coaches’ Poll for Feb. 25, 2019

Rank	School	Record	Total Points	Previous Rank
1	Thomas More (7)	27-0	199	2
2	Bowdoin (1)	26-1	190	1
3	St. Thomas (MN)	26-1	182	3
4	Tufts	25-2	177	5
5	Amherst	23-3	163	4
6	Messiah	26-1	160	6
7	Trine	25-2	156	7
8	Scranton	25-2	143	9
9	Hope	22-3	137	8
10	DeSales	25-2	119	12
11	George Fox	24-3	116	13
12	St. Joseph’s (ME)	27-1	105	10
13 (tie)	Mary Hardin-Baylor	25-3	97	11
13 (tie)	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	24-3	97	14
15	Wartburg	24-3	89	15
16	Texas-Dallas	24-4	88	16
17	Illinois Wesleyan	23-4	65	18
18	DePauw	24-4	61	22
19 (tie)	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	24-3	38	17
19 (tie)	Washington-St. Louis	19-6	38	25
21	Emory and Henry	22-4	32	19
22 (tie)	Chicago	19-6	31	20
22 (tie)	SUNY New Paltz	23-4	31	24
24	Transylvania	25-2	25	NR
25	East Texas Baptist	23-4	23	21

Others receiving votes: Wheaton (IL) (22-5) 21; Johns Hopkins (22-4) 6; Marymount (VA) (22-5) 4; Augsburg (22-5) 2; Elizabethtown (19-7) 2; Emory (19-6) 1; Haverford (21-6) 1; Pomona-Pitzer (22-5) 1.

Dropped Out: Wheaton (IL) (22-5).

The WBCA NCAA Division III Coaches Poll Committee is made up of nine head coaches at Division III institutions. All are members of the WBCA. The 2018-19 committee members are Brian Morehouse, non-voting chair (Hope), Renee DeVarney (Swarthmore), Kristen Dowling (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps), Alex Lang (Brooklyn), Jennifer Reimer (Case Western Reserve), Alex Richey (Oglethorpe), Mia Smith (Illinois Wesleyan), Daphne Thompson (SUNY Oneonta) and Kelly Thompson (Roger Williams).