2010 Pairings (PDF)

The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2010 NCAA Division II Men.s Basketball Championship. Twenty-two conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 42 teams were selected at large by the committee.

Seven of the regional tournaments, consisting of eight teams each, will be conducted March 13, 14 and 16 at regional sites. The West regional will be conducted March 12, 13 and 15. The eight quarterfinalists will advance to the finals at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, March 24, 25 and 27.

Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows:

California Collegiate Athletic Association -- Cal State San B'dino
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference -- Felician
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association -- St. Augustine's
Conference Carolinas -- Mount Olive
East Coast Conference -- Bridgeport
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Findlay
Great Lakes Valley Conference -- Bellarmine
Great Northwest Athletic Conference -- Seattle Pacific
Gulf South Conference -- Arkansas Tech
Heartland Conference -- Incarnate Word
Lone Star Conference -- Midwestern State
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association -- Nebraska-Omaha
Northeast-10 Conference -- Massachusetts-Lowell
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference -- St. Cloud State
Pacific West Conference -- TBD
Peach Belt Conference -- USC Aiken
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference -- Indiana (Pennsylvania)
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference -- Metro State
South Atlantic Conference -- Brevard
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Tuskegee
Sunshine State Conference -- Rollins
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- West Virginia State

Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows:

Alabama-Huntsville
Alderson-Broaddus
Anderson (SC)
Augusta State
Augustana (SD)
Barry
Bentley
Cal Poly Pomona
Catawba
Central Missouri
Central Oklahoma
Central State (OH)
Central Washington
Clark Atlanta
Colorado Mines
Drury
East Stroudsburg
Fairmont State
Florida Southern
Fort Hays State
Georgia College
Grand Valley State
Humboldt State
Kentucky Wesleyan
Kutztown
Merrimack
Mesa State
Minnesota State Mankato
Missouri Western
Montevallo
New Mexico Highlands
Philadelphia U.
Quincy
Saint Anselm
St. Joseph's (IN)
Stonehill
Tarleton State
Valdosta State
West Liberty
Western Washington
Winona State

Findlay defeated Cal Poly Pomona 56-53 to win the 2009 NCAA Division II Men's Elite Eight in Springfield, Massachusetts.

For more information about the championship, log on to NCAA.com.