| Division: | II |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Gender: | men's |
| Teams: | 64 |
| Champions: | Northwest Missouri Bearcats |
| Titlecount: | 4th |
| Runnerup: | Augusta Jaguars |
| Gamecount: | 2nd |
| Semifinal1: | Black Hills State Yellow Jackets |
| Finalfourcount: | 1st |
| Semifinal2: | Indiana (PA) Crimson Hawks |
| Finalfourcount2: | 5th |
| Coach: | Ben McCollum |
| Coachcount: | 4th |
| Mop: | Trevor Hudgins |
| Mopteam: | Northwest Missouri |
| Finalfourcity: | Ford Center Evansville, Indiana |
The 2022 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament was the single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States.
The championship rounds were held from March 22 to 26, 2022 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. The tournament returned to its pre-COVID-19 pandemic field of sixty-four teams.
Defending champions Northwest Missouri State defeated Augusta in the championship game, 67–58, to win their fourth Division II national men's title.[1] The Bearcats became the first to win three consecutive Division II titles, although including that the 2020 tournament was not held.
Seven teams participated in the tournament for the first time: Academy of Art, Black Hills State, Cal State San Marcos, Cedarville, Davenport, Embry-Riddle, and Savannah State, though Embry-Riddle had qualified for the 2020 tournament that was ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
First-, second-, and third-round games, which comprise each regional championship, will take place on campus sites on March 11, 12, and 14. With the exception of the West Regional, the top-seeded team in each regional will serve as host.
These eight locations were chosen to host regional games for the 2022 tournament:
The national quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals were held on March 22, 24, and 26 at a pre-determined site, the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.
A total of sixty-four bids are available for the tournament: 23 automatic bids (awarded to the champions of the twenty-three Division II conferences) and 41 at-large bids.
The bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), each of which contains either two or three of the 23 Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball (after the Heartland Conference disbanded in 2019, the South Central Region now features only two conferences). Each region consists of two or three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and either five or six at-large bids, awarded regardless of conference affiliation.
| Automatic bids | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region (Bids) | Conference | School | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid | ||
| Atlantic (3) | CIAA | Fayetteville State | 21–8 | 3rd | 1993 | ||
| Mountain East | West Liberty | 29–2 | 12th | 2021 | |||
| PSAC | Indiana (PA) | 29–2 | 17th | 2019 | |||
| Central (3) | Great American | Southwestern Oklahoma State | 14–16 | 2nd | 2005 | ||
| MIAA | Northwest Missouri State | 28–5 | 21st | 2021 | |||
| Northern Sun | Minnesota State-Moorhead | 19–11 | 7th | 2021 | |||
| East (3) | CACC | Felician | 19–9 | 2nd | 2010 | ||
| East Coast | St. Thomas Aquinas | 26–4 | 6th | 2021 | |||
| Northeast-10 | Bentley | 22–4 | 6th | 2021 | |||
| Midwest (3) | GLIAC | Davenport | 17–13 | 1st | Never | ||
| GLVC | Missouri–St. Louis | 24–6 | 3rd | 1988 | |||
| G-MAC | Walsh | 23–6 | 2nd | 2019 | |||
| South (3) | Gulf South | Alabama–Huntsville | 22–10 | 14th | 2021 | ||
| SIAC | Savannah State | 15–13 | 1st | Never | |||
| Sunshine State | Nova Southeastern (1st) | 28–0 | 2nd | 2019 | |||
| South Central (2) | Lone Star | West Texas A&M | 27–6 | 18th | 2021 | ||
| RMAC | Black Hills State | 22–7 | 1st | Never | |||
| Southeast (3) | Carolinas | Belmont Abbey | 22–9 | 8th | 2021 | ||
| Peach Belt | Augusta | 28–3 | 13th | 2019 | |||
| South Atlantic | Queens (NC) | 28–3 | 13th | 2021 | |||
| West (3) | CCAA | Cal State San Marcos | 20–4 | 1st | Never | ||
| GNAC | Alaska | 12–14 | 6th | 2006 | |||
| PacWest | Academy of Art | 20–11 | 1st | Never | |||
| At-large bids | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region (Bids) | School | Conference | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid | ||
| Atlantic (5) | California (PA) | PSAC | 21–9 | 14th | 2008 | ||
| Fairmont State | Mountain East | 23–7 | 12th | 2021 | |||
| Mercyhurst | PSAC | 24–6 | 5th | 2021 | |||
| Millersville | PSAC | 25–6 | 11th | 2008 | |||
| West Virginia State | Mountain East | 23–7 | 6th | 2010 | |||
| Central (5) | Augustana (SD) | NSIC | 24–3 | 15th | 2017 | ||
| Central Oklahoma | MIAA | 24–6 | 13th | 2011 | |||
| Minnesota Duluth | NSIC | 25–5 | 6th | 2003 | |||
| Upper Iowa | NSIC | 25–5 | 3rd | 2017 | |||
| Washburn | MIAA | 21–10 | 16th | 2021 | |||
| East (5) | Dominican (NY) | CACC | 21–7 | 4th | 2021 | ||
| Franklin Pierce | NE-10 | 18–10 | 7th | 2014 | |||
| New Haven | NE-10 | 17–8 | 9th | 2019 | |||
| Pace | NE-10 | 19–9 | 5th | 2007 | |||
| Saint Anselm | NE-10 | 17–10 | 23rd | 2019 | |||
| Midwest (5) | Cedarville | G-MAC | 19–12 | 1st | Never | ||
| Ferris State | GLIAC | 21–8 | 14th | 2018 | |||
| Findlay | G-MAC | 19–10 | 15th | 2019 | |||
| Hillsdale | G-MAC | 20–7 | 7th | 2021 | |||
| Truman State | GLVC | 20–9 | 10th | 2021 | |||
| South (5) | Barry | Sunshine State | 20–8 | 9th | 2018 | ||
| Embry-Riddle | Sunshine State | 22–9 | 1st | Never | |||
| Miles | SIAC | 24–4 | 3rd | 2019 | |||
| Union (TN) | Gulf South | 23–8 | 4th | 2016 | |||
| West Alabama | Gulf South | 24–6 | 6th | 2019 | |||
| South Central (6) | Angelo State | Lone Star | 20–9 | 8th | 2019 | ||
| Colorado Mesa | RMAC | 24–9 | 7th | 2021 | |||
| Dallas Baptist | Lone Star | 17–11 | 6th | 2021 | |||
| Lubbock Christian | Lone Star | 26–3 | 4th | 2021 | |||
| Texas A&M–Commerce | Lone Star | 17–8 | 9th | 2019 | |||
| Texas A&M–Kingsville | Lone Star | 18–10 | 6th | 2017 | |||
| Southeast (5) | Columbus State | Peach Belt | 20–10 | 14th | 2017 | ||
| Flagler | Peach Belt | 23–7 | 2nd | 2021 | |||
| Georgia College | Peach Belt | 21–7 | 7th | 2010 | |||
| Lincoln Memorial | SAC | 25–4 | 9th | 2021 | |||
| UNC Pembroke | Carolinas | 26–3 | 7th | 2019 | |||
| West (5) | Azusa Pacific | PacWest | 20–9 | 4th | 2018 | ||
| Cal State San Bernardino | CCAA | 23–3 | 14th | 2014 | |||
| Cal Poly Pomona | CCAA | 13–9 | 16th | 2019 | |||
| Chico State | CCAA | 19–4 | 15th | 2017 | |||
| Point Loma Nazarene | PacWest | 21–9 | 4th | 2021 | |||
* – Denotes overtime period
* – Denotes overtime period
* – Denotes overtime period