INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 58 teams that will compete in the 2019 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.
Four teams will compete at thirteen regional sites and two teams will compete at three regional sites. The four-team regionals will use a double-elimination format and the two-team regionals will play a best-of-five series. Forty conference champions qualified automatically.
Winners of the sixteen regional tournaments will qualify for eight, best-of-three series at the super regionals, Friday-Saturday, May 24-25. The eight super regional winners will then qualify for the pool play double-elimination championship at Perfect Game Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Friday-Tuesday/Wednesday, May 31-June 4/5, 2019.
DATES/SITES/SEEDINGS:
Friday–Sunday, May 17-19
Adrian, Michigan Region Hosted by Adrian
1.Denison
2.Heidelberg
3.Adrian
4.La Roche
Baltimore, Maryland Region Hosted by Johns Hopkins
1.The College of New Jersey
2.Johns Hopkins
3.Farmingdale State
4.Susquehanna
Birmingham, Alabama Region Hosted by Birmingham Southern
1.Birmingham-Southern
2.LaGrange
Boston, Massachusetts Region Hosted Massachusetts Boston
1.Massachusetts Boston
2.Wheaton (Massachusetts)
3.Saint Joseph’s (Maine)
4.Baruch
Chicago, Illinois Region Hosted by Concordia Chicago
1.Concordia Chicago
2.Baldwin Wallace
3.Saint John’s (Minnesota)
4.Buena Vista
Cortland, New York Region Hosted by SUNY Cortland
1.SUNY Cortland
2.Penn State Harrisburg
3.Tufts
4.Alvernia
Gorham, Maine Region Hosted by Southern Maine
1.Southern Maine
2.Oswego State
3.MIT
4.New England College
Newport News, Virginia Region Hosted by Christopher Newport
1.Christopher Newport
2.Misericordia
Orange, California Region Hosted by Chapman
1.Chapman
2.Whitman
St. Louis, Missouri Region Hosted by Washington University in St. Louis
1.WashU
2.Coe
3.Aurora
4.Cornell College
Salisbury, Maryland Region Hosted by Salisbury
1.Rowan
2.Salisbury
3.Washington and Jefferson
4.Penn. State-Abington
Seguin, Texas Region Hosted by Texas Lutheran
1.Trinity (Texas)
2.Texas Lutheran
3.Concordia University Texas
4.Franklin
Trinity, Connecticut Region Hosted by Trinity (Connecticut)
1.Babson
2.Trinity (Connecticut)
3.Salve Regina
4.Keystone
Union, New Jersey Region Hosted by Kean
1.Ithaca
2.Kean
3.Shenandoah
4.Westfield State
Whitewater, Wisconsin Region Hosted by Wisconsin-Whitewater
1.Webster
2.Wisconsin-Whitewater
3.North Central (Illinois)
4.Bethany Lutheran
Wooster, Ohio Region Hosted by Wooster
1.Wooster
2.Case Western Reserve
3.Otterbein
4.Rochester (New York)
Teams are bracketed to have a predetermined super regional pod match-up. Super regional hosts will be determined by the Division III Baseball Committee following the regional round. Teams at the final site will be seeded to determine first-round matchups.