| Year: | 2017 |
| Division: | III |
| Teams: | 64 |
| Finalfourcity: | Salem Civic Center Salem, Virginia |
| Champions: | Babson Beavers |
| Titlecount: | 1st |
| Runnerup: | Augustana Vikings |
| Gamecount: | 4th |
| Semifinal1: | Whitman Blues |
| Finalfourcount: | 1st |
| Semifinal2: | Williams Ephs |
| Finalfourcount2: | 4th |
The 2017 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament involving 64 teams to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The tournament concluded with the national semifinal and championship rounds that took place at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.
Babson beat Augustana (IL) 79-78 to win their 1st national title. Joey Flannery was voted as the MVP of the tournament.
The following 43 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2017 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).[1]
| Automatic bids | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Team | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid | |||
| Allegheny Mountain | Medaille | 21–7 (16–2) | 5th | 2015 | |||
| American Southwest | Hardin–Simmons | 24–7 (13–3) | 2nd | 2016 | |||
| Capital | Christopher Newport | 27–3 (17–1) | 21st | 2016 | |||
| Centennial | Swarthmore | 23–6 (14–4) | 1st | Never | |||
| CUNYAC | Staten Island | 21–6 (16–0) | 12th | 2013 | |||
| CCIW | North Central (IL) | 18–11 (9–7) | 9th | 2016 | |||
| Colonial States | Neumann | 25–3 (17–1) | 2nd | 2015 | |||
| Commonwealth Coast | Nichols | 24–6 (15–3) | 1st | Never | |||
| Empire 8 | St. John Fisher | 23–6 (15–1) | 16th | 2015 | |||
| Great Northeast | Albertus Magnus | 23–5 (16–2) | 6th | 2015 | |||
| Heartland | Hanover | 26–4 (16–2) | 7th | 2011 | |||
| Iowa | Wartburg | 21–10 (8–8) | 7th | 2001 | |||
| Landmark | Scranton | 22–7 (11–3) | 28th | 2016 | |||
| Liberty | Union (NY) | 17–11 (10–6) | 4th | 2005 | |||
| Little East | Eastern Connecticut | 21–9 (11–3) | 7th | 2015 | |||
| MAC Commonwealth | Lycoming | 24–5 (13–3) | 7th | 2016 | |||
| MAC Freedom | Misericordia | 20–8 (9–5) | 3rd | 2015 | |||
| MASCAC | Salem State | 17–11 (9–3) | 24th | 2012 | |||
| Michigan | Calvin | 17–11 (10–4) | 21st | 2015 | |||
| Midwest | Ripon | 20–5 (15–3) | 13th | 2002 | |||
| Minnesota | Bethel (MN) | 20–6 (15–5) | 2nd | 1991 | |||
| NECC | Becker | 19–9 (13–3) | 3rd | 2012 | |||
| NESCAC | Middlebury | 27–4 (8–2) | 8th | 2016 | |||
| NEWMAC | MIT | 21–7 (11–3) | 7th | 2014 | |||
| New Jersey | Ramapo | 25–2 (16–2) | 7th | 2013 | |||
| North Atlantic | Husson | 21–7 (16–2) | 6th | 2016 | |||
| North Coast | Wooster | 21–8 (15–3) | 26th | 2016 | |||
| NEAC | Morrisville State | 22–7 (15–3) | 4th | 2014 | |||
| Northern Athletics | Benedictine (IL) | 23–5 (19–1) | 8th | 2016 | |||
| Northwest | Whitman | 27–0 (16–0) | 2nd | 2016 | |||
| Ohio | Marietta | 26–5 (16–2) | 6th | 2016 | |||
| Old Dominion | Guilford | 24–6 (13–3) | 5th | 2010 | |||
| Presidents' | Thomas More | 22–7 (15–3) | 2nd | 2009 | |||
| Skyline | Farmingdale State | 20–8 (14–2) | 5th | 2012 | |||
| Southern | Rhodes | 17–11 (11–3) | 4th | 1993 | |||
| SCIAC | Claremont–Mudd–Scripps | 23–5 (13–3) | 13th | 2015 | |||
| SCAC | Texas Lutheran | 19–10 (10–4) | 3rd | 2016 | |||
| SLIAC | Westminster (MO) | 19–9 (13–5) | 5th | 2016 | |||
| SUNYAC | Oswego State | 21–7 (15–3) | 5th | 2016 | |||
| UAA | Washington–St. Louis | 21–6 (12–2) | 20th | 2015 | |||
| Upper Midwest | Northwestern–St. Paul | 20–8 (13–3) | 7th | 2016 | |||
| USA South | LaGrange | 18–11 (8–6) | 4th | 2016 | |||
| Wisconsin | UW–River Falls | 25–4 (12–2) | 3rd | 2012 | |||
The following 21 teams were awarded qualification for the 2017 NCAA field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee. 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.
| At-large bids | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Team | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid | |||
| NESCAC | Amherst | 17–8 (7–3) | 19th | 2016 | |||
| CCIW | Augustana (IL) | 24–9 (11–5) | 16th | 2016 | |||
| NEWMAC | Babson | 31–2 (14–0) | 9th | 2016 | |||
| Colonial States | Cabrini | 19–8 (15–3) | 13th | 2014 | |||
| UAA | Emory | 19–8 (9–5) | 6th | 2016 | |||
| Commonwealth Coast | Endicott | 24–7 (15–3) | 8th | 2016 | |||
| Michigan | Hope | 23–7 (13–1) | 26th | 2016 | |||
| Little East | Keene State | 22–10 (10–4) | 5th | 2016 | |||
| New Jersey | New Jersey City | 21–8 (13–5) | 17th | 2011 | |||
| UAA | Rochester | 24–5 (10–4) | 15th | 2013 | |||
| Liberty | St. Lawrence | 20–7 (13–3) | 13th | 2010 | |||
| Minnesota | St. Thomas (MN) | 19–8 (15–5) | 18th | 2016 | |||
| Capital | Salisbury | 20–8 (14–4) | 8th | 2016 | |||
| Liberty | Skidmore | 20–8 (14–2) | 5th | 2016 | |||
| Landmark | Susquehanna | 23–6 (11–3) | 7th | 2016 | |||
| NESCAC | Tufts | 22–7 (8–2) | 5th | 2016 | |||
| Wisconsin | UW–Oshkosh | 17–11 (9–5) | 7th | 2016 | |||
| Wisconsin | UW–Whitewater | 22–7 (9–5) | 21st | 2015 | |||
| NESCAC | Wesleyan (CT) | 19–7 (6–4) | 2nd | 2015 | |||
| Northwest | Whitworth | 23–5 (13–3) | 12th | 2016 | |||
| NESCAC | Williams | 23–9 (5–5) | 15th | 2014 | |||