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About the 2004 Division III
men's basketball tournament

2004 NCAA men's tournament basics

When are the selections announced?
Selection Sunday is Feb. 29.

Where are the games?
The first and second-round games are held at the higher seed, on March 4 and 6.* In the sectionals (March 12-13) four teams play at each of four campus sites, determined the Sunday following the second round games. Those sites are determined by a combination of seeding, geography and economic factors (such as seating, availability of local accomodations). They can rotate from one region to another but are not required to. The Final Four is held at the Salem Civic Center at Salem, Va., on March 19 and 20. The finals will be in Salem in 2005 as well.
* occasionally, schools that earn higher seeds will not be allowed to host NCAA tournament games because of reasons such as hosting bids not being filed, or gyms not being of proper dimensions.

What conferences receive automatic bids?
Automatic bids are awarded to the champions of:
American Southwest Conference: Sul Ross State
Capital Athletic Conference: Catholic
Centennial Conference: Franklin and Marshall
City University of New York Athletic Conference: Lehman
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin: Illinois Wesleyan
Commonwealth Coast Conference: Endicott
Empire 8: St. John Fisher
Great Northeast Athletic Conference: Johnson and Wales
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference: Hanover
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Buena Vista
Lake Michigan Conference: Lakeland
Little East Conference: Keene State
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference: Salem State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Calvin
Middle Atlantic Commonwealth: Elizabethtown
Middle Atlantic Freedom: Lycoming
Midwest Conference: Lawrence
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Gustavus Adolphus
New England Small College Athletic Conference: Williams
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference: Babson
New Jersey Athletic Conference: New Jersey City
North Coast Athletic Conference: Wooster
Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference: Benedictine
Northwest Conference: Puget Sound
Ohio Athletic Conference: John Carroll
Old Dominion Athletic Conference: Hampden-Sydney
Pennsylvania Athletic Conference: Gwynedd-Mercy
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Maryville (Mo.)
Skyline Conference: SUNY-Old Westbury
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Pomona-Pitzer
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference: Trinty (Texas)
State University of New York Athletic Conference: Potsdam State
University Athletic Association: Rochester
Upstate Collegiate Athletic Conference: Hamilton
USA South Athletic Conference: Methodist
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: UW-Stevens Point

Who selects teams in Pool B and Pool C?
The selections are made by the Division III men's basketball national committee, with one member from each region. Each national committee member chairs a regional committee of 4-7 people. This committee produces the regional rankings the last six weeks of the regular season.

How does the committee evaluate strength of schedule?
The Division III Championships Committee approved the following index to assist in the evaluation of teams’ relative strength of schedule (changed for 2004):

The index:
• Includes only contests versus regional competition leading up to the championship.
• Is calculated by adding the total number of points and dividing by the number of games.
• Defines a neutral games as being in neither team’s locale and, as such, is awarded as if it were an away game.
• Is calculated for ratings using an opponent’s record at the time of the rating and for selection to the championship using an opponent’s final record at the time of selection.

How many teams go from each region?
It doesn't work that way anymore. Now the Pool B and C bids are made on a national basis, meaning it is very possible that nine teams could go from the Midwest and only three teams from the East. Once the 48 teams are selected, they will be grouped into eight geographically based (theoretically) brackets of six teams apiece.

When does this tournament expand?
For the 2005-06 season there will be one playoff spot for every 6.5 eligible teams in Division III. That projects to be a 58-team tournament. Currently there are 380 eligible schools, although some choose to participate in other tournaments (NAIA, NCCAA, etc.).

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