INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2022 championship. Forty-four conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the 2022 championship. There are no berths reserved for Pool B and the final 20 berths are reserved for Pool C, which includes institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.
Sixteen first/second-round sites will be conducted March 4-5. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 11-12. Winners of the four sectional sites will advance to the national semifinals and final March 17 and 19. All games, except the semifinals/final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semifinals/final will be conducted at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hosted by SportsPITTSBURGH and Presidents' Athletic Conference.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (44):
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference La Roche (20-5)
American Rivers Conference Simpson (25-1)
American Southwest Conference Hardin-Simmons (21-4)
Atlantic East Conference Immaculata (18-8)
Centennial Conference Gettysburg (24-3)
City University of New York Athletic Conference Brooklyn (21-3)
Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference Christopher Newport (24-0)
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Illinois Wesleyan (19-8)
Colonial States Athletic Conference Clarks Summit (23-4)
Commonwealth Coast Conference Roger Williams (25-2)
Empire 8 St. John Fisher (25-2)
Great Northeast Athletic Conference Emmanuel (Massachusetts) (25-1)
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Transylvania (24-0)
Landmark Conference Scranton (25-2) Liberty League Ithaca (24-3)
Little East Conference Rhode Island College (23-5)
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Framingham State (22-3)
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Hope (26-1)
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Messiah (23-3)
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom DeSales (21-3)
Midwest Conference Ripon (18-9)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Gustavus Adolphus (22-4)
New England Collegiate Conference Mitchell (12-13)
New England Small College Athletic Conference Bates (17-7)
New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Smith (23-2)
New Jersey Athletic Conference New Jersey City (13-9)
North Atlantic Conference SUNY Polytechnic Institute (20-6)
North Coast Athletic Conference Wittenberg (18-7)
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Wisconsin Lutheran (23-1)
Northwest Conference Whitman (26-1)
Ohio Athletic Conference Baldwin Wallace (21-4)
Old Dominion Athletic Conference Shenandoah (22-5)
Presidents' Athletic Conference Washington & Jefferson (23-4)
Skyline Conference Mount St. Mary (23-3)
Southern Athletic Association Rhodes (23-2)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Whittier (16-8)
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Trinity (Texas) (25-2)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Webster (25-0)
State University of New York Athletic Conference SUNY New Paltz (20-6)
United East Conference SUNY Morrisville (19-7)
University Athletic Association New York University (22-1)
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference North Central (Minnesota) (24-4)
USA South Athletic Conference Southern Virginia (24-4)
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wisconsin-Eau Claire (21-7)
Pool C Berths (20):
Amherst (21-3)
Babson (19-7)
Catholic (20-5)
DePauw (23-3)
East Texas Baptist (20-5)
Elizabethtown (20-5)
John Carroll (22-4)
Johns Hopkins (22-4)
Marietta (21-5)
Mary Hardin-Baylor (22-4)
Millikin (21-6)
Salisbury (20-6)
Springfield (22-4)
SUNY Cortland (21-5)
Trine (24-3)
Tufts (20-4)
Wartburg (21-5)
Washington and Lee (20-6)
Wisconsin-Oshkosh (19-6)
Wisconsin-Whitewater (23-4)
The selection announcement and the full bracket are posted at ncaa.com.
Rhodes will face East Texas Baptist in the first round on Friday. The other game will be Webster vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor. The winners of each game will face off on Saturday. Game times will be announced when available.
