INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the 44 teams that will compete in the 2024 NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championship.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first-, second- and third-rounds played at regional sites, Friday-Sunday, May 10-12, or Thursday-Saturday, May 9-11. Washington University in St. Louis will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 21-24 at Dwight Davis Tennis Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 8.
The championship provides for a 44-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 33 conference champions, which form "Pool A." Three teams will be selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining eight teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification:
| Conference | School |
|---|---|
| American Rivers Conference | Luther |
| American Southwest Conference | Concordia University Texas |
| Centennial Conference | Swarthmore |
| College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin | North Central (Illinois) |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Nichols |
| CUNYAC | Baruch |
| Empire 8 | Houghton |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| Landmark Conference | Goucher |
| Liberty League | Rensselaer |
| Little East | Bridgewater State |
| MAC Commonwealth | Messiah |
| MAC Freedom | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Kalamazoo |
| Midwest Conference | Grinnell |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conf. | Gustavus Adolphus |
| NESCAC | Bowdoin |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | MIT |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Denison |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Northwest Conference | George Fox |
| ODAC | Washington and Lee |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Ohio Northern |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | Allegheny |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State |
| Southern Athletic Association | University of the South |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) |
| United East | Penn State Harrisburg |
| University Athletic Association | University of Chicago |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Principia |
| USA South Athletic Conference | North Carolina Wesleyan |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Whitewater |
The following schools, listed alphabetically, were selected to the championship from Pool B and Pool C candidates:
POOL "B" SELECTION
UC Santa Cruz
Christopher Newport
Mary Washington
POOL "C" SELECTIONS
Case Western Reserve
Emory
Johns Hopkins
Middlebury
Redlands
Tufts
Washington University in St. Louis
Williams
Case Western Reserve is the defending national champion, having defeated Tufts 5-2 to claim the team title. For more information about the championships, including the championships bracket, log on to krikya18.com.
