Year: | 2015 |
Division: | III |
Teams: | 62 |
Finalfourcity: | Salem Civic Center Salem, Virginia |
Champions: | Wisconsin–Stevens Point Pointers |
Titlecount: | 4th |
Gamecount: | 3rd |
Finalfourcount: | 1st |
Semifinal2: | Virginia Wesleyan Marlins |
Finalfourcount2: | 3rd |
The 2015 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 62 teams to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The tournament took place during March 2015, with the national semifinal and championship rounds taking place at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.
Wisconsin–Stevens Point defeated Augustana (IL), 70–54, to win their fourth Division III national championship.
The following 43 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2015 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).[1]
Automatic bids | |||||||
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Conference | Team | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid | |||
Allegheny Mountain | Medaille | 19–7 (14–4) | 4th | 2012 | |||
American Southwest | East Texas Baptist | 23–5 (15–5) | 1st | Never | |||
Capital | Salisbury | 20–7 (14–4) | 6th | 1997 | |||
Centennial | Dickinson | 22–5 (13–5) | 7th | 2014 | |||
CUNYAC | Baruch | 21–6 (14–2) | 4th | 2009 | |||
CCIW | Augustana (IL) | 23–4 (11–3) | 14th | 2014 | |||
Colonial States | Neumann | 17–10 (12–6) | 1st | Never | |||
Commonwealth Coast | Endicott | 23–5 (16–2) | 6th | 2012 | |||
Empire 8 | St. John Fisher | 23–4 (14–2) | 15th | 2010 | |||
Great Northeast | Albertus Magnus | 27–1 (18–0) | 5th | 2014 | |||
Heartland | Defiance | 21–6 (14–4) | 5th | 2010 | |||
Iowa | Dubuque | 23–5 (10–4) | 6th | 2013 | |||
Landmark | Scranton | 22–5 (14–2) | 26th | 2014 | |||
Liberty | Skidmore | 19–7 (14–2) | 3rd | 2012 | |||
Little East | Keene State | 20–8 (8–6) | 3rd | 2007 | |||
MAC Commonwealth | Alvernia | 18–9 (10–6) | 10th | 2014 | |||
MAC Freedom | Misericordia | 21–6 (11–3) | 2nd | 2012 | |||
MASCAC | Westfield State | 20–6 (11–1) | 3rd | 1993 | |||
Michigan | Calvin | 21–6 (12–2) | 20th | 2014 | |||
Midwest | St. Norbert | 24–1 (18–0) | 7th | 2014 | |||
Minnesota | St. Thomas (MN) | 24–3 (17–3) | 16th | 2014 | |||
NECC | Regis (MA) | 19–8 (12–4) | 1st | Never | |||
NESCAC | Wesleyan (CT) | 19–8 (5–5) | 1st | Never | |||
NEWMAC | Babson | 25–2 (13–1) | 7th | 2014 | |||
New Jersey | Stockton | 22–5 (14–4) | 15th | 2014 | |||
North Atlantic | Colby–Sawyer | 19–6 (15–3) | 4th | 2003 | |||
North Coast | DePauw | 19–9 (9–9) | 13th | 2007 | |||
NEAC | SUNY Cobleskill | 17–10 (13–4) | 1st | Never | |||
Northern Athletics | Concordia (WI) | 19–9 (14–6) | 3rd | 2011 | |||
Northwest | Whitworth | 24–3 (15–1) | 10th | 2014 | |||
Ohio | Mount Union | 22–6 (15–3) | 2nd | 1997 | |||
Old Dominion | Randolph–Macon | 26–2 (16–0) | 15th | 2014 | |||
Presidents' | Saint Vincent | 22–6 (14–2) | 3rd | 2014 | |||
Skyline | Sage | 23–4 (15–3) | 1st | Never | |||
Southern | Hendrix | 12–16 (4–10) | 3rd | 1996 | |||
SCIAC | Claremont–Mudd–Scripps | 21–6 (12–4) | 12th | 2012 | |||
SCAC | Texas Lutheran | 18–9 (11–3) | 1st | Never | |||
SLIAC | Spalding | 18–9 (13–5) | 2nd | 2013 | |||
SUNYAC | Oswego State | 19–9 (12–6) | 3rd | 2012 | |||
UAA | Emory | 20–5 (10–4) | 4th | 2014 | |||
Upper Midwest | Northwestern–St. Paul | 18–9 (14–0) | 5th | 2014 | |||
USA South | LaGrange | 17–11 (7–7) | 2nd | 2014 | |||
Wisconsin | UW–Whitewater | 24–3 (15–1) | 20th | 2014 |
The following 19 teams were awarded qualification for the 2015 NCAA field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee. The committee evaluated teams on the basis of their win-loss percentage, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, results against common opponents, and results against teams included in the NCAA's final regional rankings.
At-large bids | |||||||
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Conference | Team | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid | |||
NESCAC | Amherst | 20–7 (6–4) | 17th | 2014 | |||
NESCAC | Bates | 19–6 (7–3) | 1st | Never | |||
Landmark | Catholic | 22–5 (15–1) | 13th | 2013 | |||
Little East | Eastern Connecticut | 22–5 (13–1) | 6th | 2014 | |||
CCIW | Elmhurst | 19–7 (9–5) | 4th | 2009 | |||
CCIW | Illinois Wesleyan | 19–8 (10–4) | 24th | 2014 | |||
Ohio | John Carroll | 20–6 (15–3) | 13th | 2010 | |||
Centennial | Johns Hopkins | 23–4 (16–2) | 10th | 2014 | |||
Ohio | Marietta | 25–3 (16–2) | 4th | 2013 | |||
North Coast | Ohio Wesleyan | 22–5 (16–2) | 6th | 2014 | |||
Minnesota | St. Olaf | 21–5 (16–4) | 2nd | 2014 | |||
NEWMAC | Springfield | 19–8 (10–4) | 8th | 2014 | |||
NESCAC | Trinity (CT) | 20–6 (9–1) | 8th | 2008 | |||
Wisconsin | UW–Stevens Point | 21–5 (15–1) | 14th | 2014 | |||
Old Dominion | Virginia Wesleyan | 23–5 (13–3) | 15th | 2014 | |||
UAA | Washington–St. Louis | 20–5 (9–5) | 19th | 2014 | |||
New Jersey | William Paterson | 20–7 (13–5) | 16th | 2012 | |||
North Coast | Wooster | 22–6 (14–4) | 24th | 2014 | |||
NEWMAC | WPI | 21–5 (11–3) | 11th | 2014 |