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2023 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament

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2023 NCAA Division III
men's basketball tournament
Teams64
Finals siteAllen County War Memorial Coliseum
Fort Wayne, Indiana
ChampionsChristopher Newport (1st title, 1st title game,
3rd Final Four)
Runner-upMount Union (1st title game,
1st Final Four)
Semifinalists
Winning coachJohn Krikorian (1st title)
MOPTrey Barber (Christopher Newport)
NCAA Division III men's tournaments
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The 2023 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college basketball in the United States. Featuring sixty-four teams, it was played in March 2023, following the 2022–23 season, concluding with the championship game on March 18, 2023.

The national semifinal and championship rounds were held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Christopher Newport won their first national championship, beating Mount Union 74–72 on a buzzer-beating layup by Trey Barber.

Tournament schedule and venues

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Wheaton
Wheaton, IL
West Hartford
West Hartford, CT
Belton
Belton, TX
Newport News
Newport News, VA
Middlebury
Middlebury, VT
Galloway
Galloway Township, NJ
Keene
Keene, NH
Swarthmore
Swarthmore, PA
St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Alliance
Alliance, OH
Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI
Glassboro
Glassboro, NJ
Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
Cleveland
Cleveland, OH
Oswego
Oswego, NY
Ashland
Ashland, VA
2023 first and second round host sites
First and second rounds

First and second round games were played at campus sites on March 3 and March 4.

On the basis of team strength and geography, these locations were chosen to host first and second round games in the 2023 tournament:

Third and fourth rounds
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Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN
Newport News
Newport News, VA
Swarthmore
Swarthmore, PA
Alliance
Alliance, OH
Ashland
Ashland, VA
2023 third and fourth round (blue) and Final Four (red) host sites

Third and fourth round games were played at campus sites on March 10 and March 11.

At the conclusion of the second round, the NCAA announced the following locations would host third and fourth round games.

National Semifinals and Championship

The National Semifinals and Championship were played on March 16 and March 18.

Fort Wayne hosted the Final Four for the third time, having previously hosted in 2019 and 2022. Fort Wayne was also scheduled to host the Final Four in 2020 and 2021, before those editions of the tournament were canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.

Qualifying teams

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A total of sixty-four bids were available for the tournament: 44 automatic bids—awarded to the champions of the forty-three NCAA-recognized Division III conference tournaments—and 20 at-large bids.

While this was the first season for the newly established Collegiate Conference of the South, its conference tournament champion was not eligible for an automatic bid until the 2025 tournament.[1]

This was also the final year that the Colonial States Athletic Conference and New England Collegiate Conference received bids; the members of the CSAC merged into the United East Conference ahead of the 2023–24 season, consolidating its bid into the UEC's as part of the process.[2] Meanwhile, after steady losses of membership in recent years, the four remaining members of the NECC joined other conferences for 2023–24 and beyond.

Automatic bids (44)

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The following 44 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2023 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).[3]

Automatic bids
Conference Team Record (Conf.) Appearance Last bid
Allegheny Mountain La Roche 20–7 (13–1) 4th 2020
American Rivers Coe 16–12 (7–9) 3rd 1976
American Southwest East Texas Baptist 23–5 (14–4) 2nd 2015
Atlantic East Marymount 17–10 (10–2) 2nd 2000
Centennial Swarthmore 24–3 (16–2) 6th 2022
CUNYAC Baruch 22–5 (12–2) 7th 2022
Coast to Coast Christopher Newport 24–3 (5–0) 26th 2022
CCIW North Park 22–5 (13–3) 10th 1990
Colonial States Wilson 19–8 (11–3) 2nd 2022
Commonwealth Coast Nichols 23–5 (16–2) 6th 2022
Empire 8 St. John Fisher 21–7 (14–4) 18th 2020
Great Northeast Albertus Magnus 19–9 (14–4) 8th 2019
Heartland Anderson (IN) 18–9 (14–4) 2nd 2010
Landmark Scranton 20–7 (10–4) 29th 2017
Liberty St. Lawrence 19–7 (13–5) 14th 2017
Little East Keene State 26–1 (16–0) 8th 2022
MAC Commonwealth Widener 19–8 (11–5) 17th 2009
MAC Freedom Arcadia 15–11 (9–7) 2nd 2019
MASCAC Worcester State 22–5 (12–0) 3rd 1994
Michigan Hope 19–9 (10–4) 29th 2022
Midwest Illinois College 25–2 (15–1) 2nd 2003
Minnesota Carleton 24–3 (17–3) 3rd 2010
NECC Mitchell 23–4 (6–0) 4th 2022
NESCAC Hamilton 19–8 (7–3) 12th 2019
NEWMAC Babson 19–8 (10–4) 12th 2022
New Jersey Rowan 22–5 (16–2) 15th 2022
North Atlantic SUNY Delhi 20–8 (10–4) 1st Never
North Coast Wabash 21–7 (11–5) 7th 2022
Northern Athletics St. Norbert 19–7 (14–3) 10th 2020
Northwest Whitworth 18–9 (11–5) 16th 2022
Ohio Mount Union 25–2 (16–2) 5th 2022
Old Dominion Randolph–Macon 27–1 (16–0) 19th 2022
Presidents' Chatham 17–11 (13–7) 2nd 2019
Skyline Farmingdale State 21–7 (13–3) 7th 2019
Southern Sewanee 19–9 (9–5) 6th 2019
SCIAC Cal Lutheran 13–13 (8–8) 5th 2001
SCAC Schreiner 15–13 (6–10) 2nd 2018
SLIAC Fontbonne 16–11 (10–4) 5th 2009
SUNYAC Oswego State 25–2 (17–1) 8th 2022
United East Lancaster Bible 20–7 (15–1) 3rd 2018
UAA Case Western Reserve 21–3 (11–3) 2nd 2022
Upper Midwest Bethany Lutheran 23–4 (12–2) 3rd 2020
USA South North Carolina Wesleyan 23–4 (13–1) 6th 2011
Wisconsin UW–Whitewater 21–7 (9–5) 22nd 2017

At-large bids (20)

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The following 20 teams were awarded qualification for the tournament field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee.[3] The committee evaluated teams on the basis of their win–loss percentage, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, results against common opponents, and results against teams included in the NCAA's final regional rankings.[4]

At-large bids
Conference Team Record (Conf.) Appearance Last bid
UAA Emory 17–8 (8–6) 11th 2022
Old Dominion Hampden–Sydney 21–6 (14–2) 15th 2013
Ohio John Carroll 22–4 (16–2) 16th 2018
Centennial Johns Hopkins 23–4 (16–2) 14th 2022
American Southwest Mary Hardin–Baylor 21–5 (16–2) 8th 2022
Coast to Coast Mary Washington 19–8 (4–2) 3rd 2014
NESCAC Middlebury 19–5 (7–3) 12th 2020
New Jersey Montclair State 22–5 (15–3) 7th 2003
UAA NYU 18–7 (7–7) 11th 2016
SCIAC Pomona–Pitzer 20–6 (15–1) 15th 2022
UAA Rochester 16–9 (6–8) 18th 2022
Great Northeast St. Joseph (CT) 27–1 (18–0) 3rd 2022
SCAC St. Thomas (TX) 23–3 (16–0) 1st Never
New Jersey Stockton 22–5 (15–3) 18th 2022
NESCAC Tufts 19–7 (6–4) 7th 2020
Empire 8 Utica 22–4 (17–1) 2nd 2006
Wisconsin UW–Oshkosh 21–6 (13–1) 12th 2022
UAA Washington–St. Louis 19–6 (10–4) 24th 2022
CCIW Wheaton (IL) 22–4 (14–2) 13th 2022
NESCAC Williams 22–4 (7–3) 19th 2022

Tournament bracket

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* – Denotes overtime period

First round
March 3, 2023
Campus Sites
Second round
March 4, 2023
Campus Sites
Third round
March 10, 2023
Ashland, VA
Quarterfinals
March 11, 2023
Ashland, VA
            
Randolph–Macon 73
Wilson 36
Randolph–Macon 63
Ashland, VA
Scranton 41
Scranton 65
North Carolina Wesleyan 64
Randolph–Macon 63
Oswego State 74
Oswego State 80
Marymount 62
Oswego State 66
Oswego, NY
John Carroll 61
John Carroll 91
Albertus Magnus 80
Oswego State 74
UW–Whitewater 77
Case Western Reserve 82
Arcadia 76
Case Western Reserve 75
Cleveland, OH
UW–Whitewater 78
UW–Whitewater 90
Wabash 83
UW–Whitewater 83*
Johns Hopkins 82
Johns Hopkins 89
Mitchell 71
Johns Hopkins 81
Baltimore, MD
Hamilton 71
Hamilton 84
Montclair State 75

Bottom-left - Alliance, Ohio

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First round
March 3, 2023
Campus Sites
Second round
March 4, 2023
Campus Sites
Third round
March 10, 2023
Alliance, OH
Quarterfinals
March 11, 2023
Alliance, OH
            
Rowan 83
Cal Lutheran 77
Rowan 83
Glassboro, NJ
Utica 72
Utica 72
Babson 60
Rowan 72
UW–Oshkosh 91
UW–Oshkosh 86
Fontbonne 58
UW–Oshkosh 51
Oshkosh, WI
Hope 50
Hope 79
Bethany Lutheran 65
UW–Oshkosh 67
Mount Union 78
Mount Union 73
Anderson (IN) 65
Mount Union 90
Alliance, OH
Lancaster Bible 66
NYU 64
Lancaster Bible 67
Mount Union 102
North Park 85
Washington–St. Louis 69
Coe 48
Washington–St. Louis 69
St. Louis, MO
North Park 72
North Park 88
Sewanee 69
First round
March 3, 2023
Campus Sites
Second round
March 4, 2023
Campus Sites
Third round
March 10, 2023
Swarthmore, PA
Quarterfinals
March 11, 2023
Swarthmore, PA
            
Swarthmore 93
SUNY Delhi 64
Swarthmore 101
Swarthmore, PA
St. John Fisher 78
St. John Fisher 74
Whitworth 59
Swarthmore 82
Keene State 58
Keene State 89
Baruch 78
Keene State 77
Keene, NH
Tufts 72
Tufts 78
Widener 66
Swarthmore 78
Nichols 77
Stockton 86
La Roche 70
Stockton 68
Galloway, NJ
Mary Washington 65
Mary Washington 69
St. Lawrence 42
Stockton 68
Nichols 86
Middlebury 76
Worcester State 51
Middlebury 66
Middlebury, VT
Nichols 73
Rochester 71
Nichols 74
First round
March 3, 2023
Campus Sites
Second round
March 4, 2023
Campus Sites
Third round
March 10, 2023
Newport News, VA
Quarterfinals
March 11, 2023
Newport News, VA
            
Christopher Newport 61
Farmingdale State 60
Christopher Newport 72
Hampden Sydney, VA[a]
Hampden–Sydney 59
Hampden–Sydney 63
Emory 59
Christopher Newport 72
Mary Hardin–Baylor 60
Mary Hardin–Baylor 81
Schreiner 78
Mary Hardin–Baylor 72
Belton, TX
East Texas Baptist 70
St. Thomas (TX) 75
East Texas Baptist 79
Christopher Newport 76
Wheaton (IL) 70
St. Joseph (CT) 76
Chatham 53
St. Joseph (CT) 75
West Hartford, CT
Williams 54
Pomona–Pitzer 53
Williams 78
St. Joseph (CT) 67
Wheaton (IL) 74
Wheaton (IL) 79
Illinois College 66
Wheaton (IL) 75
Wheaton, IL
St. Norbert 71
Carleton 77
St. Norbert 81
  1. ^ Due to Christopher Newport's women's team hosting first and second round games in the 2023 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament, this pod is hosted by Hampden–Sydney instead.

Final Four

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National semifinal
March 16
Fort Wayne, IN
National championship
March 18
Fort Wayne, IN
      
UW–Whitewater 79
Mount Union 83
Mount Union 72
Christopher Newport 74
Swarthmore 66
Christopher Newport 69

Record by conference

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Conference Record Win % R64 R32 S16 E8 F4 CG NC
Coast to Coast 7–1 .875 2 2 1 1 1 1 1
Ohio 6–2 .750 2 2 1 1 1 1
Wisconsin 7–2 .778 2 2 2 2 1
Centennial 6–2 .750 2 2 2 1 1
Commonwealth Coast 3–1 .750 1 1 1 1
SUNYAC 3–1 .750 1 1 1 1
CCIW 5–2 .714 2 2 2 1
Little East 2–1 .667 1 1 1
American Southwest 3–2 .600 2 2 1
Old Dominion 3–2 .600 2 2 1
New Jersey 4–3 .571 3 2 2
Great Northeast 2–2 .500 2 1 1
NESCAC 4–4 .500 4 4
Empire 8 2–2 .500 2 2
Landmark 1–1 .500 1 1
Michigan 1–1 .500 1 1
Northern Athletics 1–1 .500 1 1
United East 1–1 .500 1 1
UAA 2–5 .286 5 2
Southern Collegiate 0–2 .000 2
SCIAC 0–2 .000 2

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Coleman, Pat; McHugh, Dave (February 16, 2022). "USA South Athletic Conference to split in two". D3Sports. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
  2. ^ "CSAC AND UNITED EAST CONFERENCE - INTENT TO MERGE". csacsports.com. Colonial States Athletic Conference. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "2022-23 men's basketball conference tourney tracker". D3Sports.com. February 18, 2023. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  4. ^ "2022-23 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Pre-Championship Manual" (PDF). NCAA. August 1, 2022. Retrieved February 27, 2023.