2024 Division III Men’s NCAA Championship Bracket Revealed

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Lacrosse Committee has selected the teams that will compete in the 2024 NCAA Division III Men’s Lacrosse Championship.

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The championship provides for a 38-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 27 conference champions, which form “Pool A.” One team is selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining ten 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.

Except for the championship game, all games will be played on the campus of one of the competing teams. First-round competition will be held on Wednesday, May 8, with the winners advancing to play in the second round on Saturday, May 11. The second and third rounds will take place on Saturday, May 11, and Sunday, May 12. The quarterfinals and semifinals will take place on Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19.

This year’s finalists will advance to Philadelphia, Pa., for the championship game at Lincoln Financial Field, which will be played at 1 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, May 26, and shown via web stream on NCAA.com. The Division II championship will follow at 4 p.m. Eastern time, which can also be seen on NCAA.com. The Division I semifinals and championship are Saturday, May 25 and Monday, May 27 at the same site.

The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification (AQ):  

Region I Automatic Qualifiers

Commonwealth Coast Conference: Endicott (16-1)
Great Northeast Athletic Conference: Saint Joseph (CT) (16-3)
Little East Conference: Plymouth St. (15-4)
NESCAC: Wesleyan (CT) (15-3)
NEWMAC: Babson (15-3)

Region II Automatic Qualifiers

Empire 8: St. John Fisher (12-7)
Liberty League: Rensselaer (16-2)
North Atlantic Conference: SUNY Poly (10-6)
Skyline Conference: Farmingdale St. (16-3)
State University of New York Athletic Conference: SUNY Geneseo (13-6)
United East Conference: St. Mary’s (MD) (13-6)

Region III Automatic Qualifiers

Atlantic East Conference: Cabrini (15-4)
Centennial Conference: Dickinson (16-2)
Landmark Conference: Scranton (13-7)
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth: Stevenson (13-6)
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom: Stevens (17-2)

Region IV Automatic Qualifiers

Ohio Athletic Conference: John Carroll (11-4)
Old Dominion Athletic Conference: Lynchburg (14-5)
Presidents’ Athletic Conference: Grove City (15-4)
Southern Athletic Association: Centre (14-3)
USA South Athletic Conference: Pfeiffer (11-6)

Region V Automatic Qualifiers

College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin: Ill. Wesleyan (13-3)
Heartland Collegiate Men’s Lacrosse Conference: Transylvania (11-6)
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Hope (13-3)
Midwest Lacrosse Conference: Lake Forest (15-2)
North Coast Athletic Conference: Denison (14-5)
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference: Aurora (15-4)

Pool B Selection

Salisbury (19-0)

Pool C Selections

Bowdoin (11-5)
Christopher Newport (14-5)
Middlebury (10-8)
Union (NY) (12-5)
Roanoke (14-5)
RIT (17-2)
St. Lawrence (14-3)
Swarthmore (14-2)
Tufts (13-3)
Washington & Lee (13-5)