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INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Committee has selected the 44 teams that will compete in the 2026 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 8-10, or Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9. University of the South and Chattanooga, TN in Chattanooga, Tennessee will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 19-22 at Champions Tennis Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 6.
The championship provides for a 44-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 35 conference champions. The remaining nine teams will be selected from true independents, schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions, and teams in conferences with an automatic bid that did not win their conferences AQ (At-Large). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification
AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS
Conference
School
American Rivers Conference
Luther
American Southwest Conference
East Texas Baptist
Atlantic East
Penn State-Behrend
Centennial Conference
Swarthmore
College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin
Carthage
Conference of New England
Roger Williams
Collegiate Conference of South
Asbury
CUNYAC
Baruch
Empire 8
St. John Fisher
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Landmark Conference
Moravian
Liberty League
Skidmore
Little East
Bridgewater St.
MAC Commonwealth
Albright
MAC Freedom
Stevens Institute of Technology
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Kalamazoo
Midwest Conference
Lake Forest
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conf.
Gustavus Adolphus
NESCAC
Tufts
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference
Babson
North Coast Athletic Conference
Denison
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference
Illinois Institute of Technology
Northwest Conference.
Whitman
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 Conf.
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
Colorado College
United East
Penn State Harrisburg
University Athletic Association
University of Chicago
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference
Greenville
USA South Athletic Conference
North Carolina Wesleyan
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The College of New Jersey
The following schools, listed alphabetically, were selected to the championship from At-Large candidates:
At-large selection
Bowdoin
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western Reserve
Emory
Johns Hopkins
Kenyon
Mary Washington
Trinity (Texas)
Washington University in St. Louis
Denison University is the defending national champion, having defeated Case Western 4-2 to claim the team title. For more information about the championships, including the championships bracket, log on to www.ncaa.com.
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