| Gender: | Men's |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Division: | III |
| Teams: | 64 |
| Finalfourarena: | Allen County War Memorial Coliseum |
| Finalfourcity: | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Champions: | Randolph–Macon |
| Titlecount: | 1st |
| Champgamecount: | 1st |
| Champffcount: | 2nd |
| Runnerup: | Elmhurst |
| Gamecount: | 1st |
| Runnerffcount: | 1st |
| Semifinal1: | Marietta |
| Finalfourcount: | 1st |
| Semifinal2: | Wabash |
| Finalfourcount2: | 2nd |
| Coach: | Josh Merkel |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mop: | Buzz Anthony |
| Mopteam: | Randolph-Macon |
The 2022 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 began on March 4, 2022, following the 2021–22 season, and concluded with the championship game on March 19, 2022.
The national semifinal and championship rounds were held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The tournament was won by the Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets, which "repeated" as national champions. During the 2021 season, the Yellow Jackets had won a mythical national championship from polls organised by D3Sports.com and a "bowl game" style championship game against the Trine Thunder in 2021.
This was the first tournament completed since 2019 after the two previous editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
First and second-round games were played at campus sites on March 4 and March 5.
On the basis of team strength and geography, these locations were chosen to host first and second-round games in the 2022 tournament:
Third and fourth-round games were played at campus sites on March 11 and March 12.
At the conclusion of the second round, the NCAA announced the following locations would host third and fourth-round games.
The National Semifinals and Championship were played on March 18 and March 19.
Fort Wayne hosted the Final Four for the second time, having previously hosted in 2019. 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.
The following 44 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2022 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 | 15–12 (9–7) | 6th | 2017 | |||
| American Rivers | Dubuque | 21–6 (14–2) | 7th | 2015 | |||
| American Southwest | Mary Hardin–Baylor | 25–2 (17–2) | 7th | 2013 | |||
| Atlantic East | Neumann | 21–7 (10–2) | 3rd | 2017 | |||
| Centennial | Johns Hopkins | 22–3 (16–2) | 13th | 2020 | |||
| CUNYAC | Baruch | 20–7 (11–3) | 6th | 2019 | |||
| Coast to Coast | Christopher Newport | 24–2 (6–0) | 25th | 2020 | |||
| CCIW | Elmhurst | 22–6 (11–5) | 7th | 2020 | |||
| Colonial States | Wilson | 18–7 (12–2) | 1st | Never | |||
| Commonwealth Coast | Nichols | 25–3 (15–3) | 5th | 2020 | |||
| Empire 8 | Nazareth | 23–4 (15–1) | 9th | 2018 | |||
| Great Northeast | St. Joseph (CT) | 26–1 (18–0) | 2nd | 2020 | |||
| Heartland | Franklin | 14–14 (7–11) | 6th | 2008 | |||
| Landmark | Susquehanna | 23–4 (13–1) | 9th | 2020 | |||
| Liberty | Vassar | 18–8 (11–6) | 1st | Never | |||
| Little East | Keene State | 20–6 (12–4) | 7th | 2019 | |||
| MAC Commonwealth | Hood | 20–6 (14–2) | 2nd | 2007 | |||
| MAC Freedom | Stevens | 16–8 (11–3) | 4th | 2020 | |||
| MASCAC | Westfield State | 22–4 (10–2) | 5th | 2020 | |||
| Michigan | Hope | 22–6 (12–2) | 28th | 2018 | |||
| Midwest | Cornell College | 19–8 (12–4) | 4th | 2009 | |||
| Minnesota | St. John's (MN) | 23–4 (17–2) | 12th | 2020 | |||
| NECC | Mitchell | 17–10 (4–2) | 3rd | 2019 | |||
| NESCAC | Wesleyan (CT) | 24–3 (9–1) | 4th | 2018 | |||
| NEWMAC | WPI | 24–2 (13–1) | 14th | 2020 | |||
| New Jersey | Stockton | 24–4 (15–3) | 17th | 2016 | |||
| North Atlantic | Husson | 15–9 (9–3) | 8th | 2019 | |||
| North Coast | Wabash | 24–3 (16–1) | 6th | 1998 | |||
| Northern Athletics | Marian (WI) | 19–8 (11–7) | 3rd | 2014 | |||
| Northwest | Whitworth | 22–4 (13–3) | 15th | 2020 | |||
| Ohio | Marietta | 25–2 (17–0) | 10th | 2020 | |||
| Old Dominion | Randolph–Macon | 27–1 (16–0) | 18th | 2020 | |||
| Presidents' | Washington & Jefferson | 24–4 (18–2) | 3rd | 1994 | |||
| Skyline | Yeshiva | 25–3 (14–2) | 3rd | 2020 | |||
| Southern | Berry | 23–2 (11–1) | 2nd | 2018 | |||
| SCIAC | Pomona–Pitzer | 21–4 (13–2) | 14th | 2020 | |||
| SCAC | Trinity (TX) | 22–5 (13–3) | 11th | 2014 | |||
| SLIAC | Blackburn | 11–17 (7–7) | 3rd | 2005 | |||
| SUNYAC | Oswego State | 25–2 (17–1) | 7th | 2019 | |||
| United East | Penn State Harrisburg | 23–3 (14–2) | 2nd | 2020 | |||
| UAA | Emory | 19–5 (12–2) | 10th | 2020 | |||
| Upper Midwest | Northwestern–St. Paul | 22–6 (13–1) | 9th | 2019 | |||
| USA South | Averett | 17–11 (11–3) | 5th | 2009 | |||
| Wisconsin | UW–Oshkosh | 22–3 (10–2) | 11th | 2020 | |||
The following 20 teams were awarded qualification for the tournament 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.[2]
| At-large bids | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Team | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid | |||
| NEWMAC | Babson | 18–8 (11–2) | 11th | 2020 | |||
| Michigan | Calvin | 20–8 (11–3) | 22nd | 2017 | |||
| UAA | Case Western Reserve | 18–6 (8–5) | 1st | Never | |||
| SCIAC | Chapman | 22–4 (12–3) | 5th | 2016 | |||
| MAC Freedom | DeSales | 22–5 (13–2) | 6th | 2019 | |||
| MAC Commonwealth | Eastern | 21–5 (13–2) | 1st | Never | |||
| NEWMAC | Emerson | 18–7 (10–4) | 2nd | 2019 | |||
| Ohio | Heidelberg | 18–7 (12–5) | 4th | 2008 | |||
| CCIW | Illinois Wesleyan | 21–5 (14–2) | 26th | 2018 | |||
| Ohio | Mount Union | 23–4 (14–3) | 4th | 2020 | |||
| UAA | Rochester | 17–8 (8–6) | 17th | 2019 | |||
| New Jersey | Rowan | 23–5 (14–4) | 14th | 2019 | |||
| Liberty | RPI | 21–5 (15–3) | 7th | 2020 | |||
| Centennial | Swarthmore | 22–5 (15–3) | 5th | 2020 | |||
| Little East | UMass Dartmouth | 24–4 (14–2) | 15th | 2009 | |||
| Wisconsin | UW–La Crosse | 20–6 (9–5) | 3rd | 2019 | |||
| Wisconsin | UW–Platteville | 21–5 (9–4) | 14th | 2020 | |||
| UAA | Washington–St. Louis | 18–7 (8–6) | 23rd | 2020 | |||
| CCIW | Wheaton (IL) | 20–6 (12–4) | 12th | 2019 | |||
| NESCAC | Williams | 17–4 (5–3) | 18th | 2019 | |||
* – Denotes overtime period
| Conference | Record | Win % | R64 | R32 | S16 | E8 | F4 | CG | NC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Dominion | 6–0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| CCIW | 10–3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| North Coast | 4–1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Ohio | 4–3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| American Southwest | 3–1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Coast to Coast | 3–1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| NEWMAC | 4–3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| SUNYAC | 2–1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Little East | 3–2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| NESCAC | 3–2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| New Jersey | 3–2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| UAA | 5–4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Liberty | 2–2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Michigan | 2–2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Wisconsin | 3–3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Empire 8 | 1–1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Landmark | 1–1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Southern Collegiate | 1–1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| United East | 1–1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Centennial | 1–2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| MAC Freedom | 1–2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| SCIAC | 1–2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| MAC Commonwealth | 0–2 | 2 | |||||||