List of NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament bids by school
This is a list of NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament bids by school, as of the end of the 2024 tournament. As of 2024, there are a total of 64 bids possible.[1]
Division III members
[edit]- Teams in bold are currently competing in the 2024 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament.
- These do not include appearances made by these teams in either the Division I (University Division) or Division II (College Division) tournaments before the establishment of Division III in 1975.
- School names reflect those in current use by their respective athletic programs, not necessarily those used when a school made an appearance in the Division III tournament.
- Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o The team qualified for the Sweet 16 (third round) in 2020 but the 2020 tournament was canceled before the third round due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- ^ St. Thomas (TX) won the 2022 SCAC tournament and would have received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, but was ineligible to participate in the postseason at that time due to its transition to the NCAA from the NAIA.
Teams with no appearances
[edit]Conference alignments are for the next NCAA basketball season of 2024–25.
- Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (5) – Alfred State, Carlow, Hilbert, Mount Aloysius, Penn State Altoona
- Carlow is not eligible to compete for the national title until 2026–27.
- American Southwest Conference (1) – Howard Payne
- Atlantic East Conference (3) – Centenary (NJ), Marywood, Pratt
- Centennial Conference (2) – Haverford, McDaniel
- Coast to Coast Athletic Conference (2) – UC Santa Cruz, Warren Wilson
- Collegiate Conference of the South (4) – Asbury, Belhaven, Huntingdon, Piedmont
- Commonwealth Coast Conference (1) – Hartford
- Hartford is not eligible to compete for the national title until 2025–26.
- Empire 8 (2) – Houghton, Keuka
- Great Northeast Athletic Conference (2) – Dean, Emmanuel (MA)
- Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (3) – Berea, Bluffton, Earlham
- Independents (1) – Maranatha Baptist
- Landmark Conference (2) – Drew, Juniata
- Liberty League (1) – Bard
- Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1) – Olivet
- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (3) – Macalester, Saint Mary's (MN), St. Scholastica
- New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (1) – Wheaton (MA)
- New Jersey Athletic Conference (1) – Rutgers–Camden
- North Atlantic Conference (7) – Eastern Nazarene, Lesley, Maine Maritime, Maine–Presque Isle, Thomas (ME), Vermont State–Johnson, Vermont State–Lyndon
- Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (3) – Concordia Chicago, Dominican (IL), Illinois Tech
- Northwest Conference (3) – George Fox, Pacific Lutheran, Willamette
- Presidents' Athletic Conference (3) – Franciscan, Thiel, Waynesburg
- Skyline Conference (3) – St. Joseph's (Brooklyn), Sarah Lawrence, SUNY Maritime
- Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1) – Caltech
- Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (3) – Austin, Ozarks, Southwestern (TX)
- St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (3) – Lyon, MUW, Principia
- Lyon is not eligible to compete for the national title until 2025–26.
- United East Conference (10) – Bryn Athyn, Gallaudet, Keystone, Notre Dame (MD), Penn College, Penn State Abington, Penn State Berks, Penn State Brandywine, Saint Elizabeth (NJ), Valley Forge
- Penn State Brandywine is not eligible for a tournament bid until 2027–28.
- Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (5) – Crown, Martin Luther, North Central (MN), Northland, Wisconsin–Superior
- USA South Athletic Conference (4) – Brevard, Pfeiffer, Southern Virginia, William Peace
Former Division III members
[edit]- Notes
- ^ The team qualified for the Sweet 16 (third round) in 2020 but the 2020 tournament was canceled before the third round due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- ^ SCAD discontinued their men's and women's basketball teams in 2009.
See also
[edit]- NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament
- NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
- NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
- NAIA men's basketball championship
- NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bids by school
- List of NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament bids by school
References
[edit]- ^ "NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament History" (PDF). Record book. NCAA. 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
- ^ "2015-16 St. Thomas Men's Basketball Schedule". Tommiesports.com. St. Paul, Minnesota: University of St. Thomas. 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2020.