List of NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament bids by school explained
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
- 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
Teams with no appearances
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
- Coast to Coast Athletic Conference (2) – UC Santa Cruz, Warren Wilson
- Regent joins in 2025–26 and is not eligible to compete for the national title until 2028–29.
- 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
- Notes
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament History . Record book. NCAA . 2017. April 23, 2017.
- Web site: 2015-16 St. Thomas Men's Basketball Schedule . Tommiesports.com . University of St. Thomas . March 11, 2020 . St. Paul, Minnesota . 2016.
