2020 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament

The 2020 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college basketball in the United States. Featuring sixty-four teams, it began on March 6, 2020, following the 2019–20 season, and was to conclude with the championship game on April 5, 2020.

2020 NCAA Division III
men's basketball tournament

Teams	64
Finals site	Quarterfinals and Semifinals: Allen County War Memorial Coliseum Fort Wayne, Indiana Championship: State Farm Arena Atlanta, Georgia
Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
NCAA Division III men's tournaments «2019 2021»

The national quarterfinal and semifinal rounds were to be held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the site of the 2019 tournament finals, while the championship game was to be played at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, coinciding with the Division I Final Four.

As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Johns Hopkins University announced that it had chosen not to admit spectators to the first and second-round games hosted there.^[1] On March 12, the NCAA announced that the remaining games of the tournament were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.^[2]

Sixteen teams had advanced to the third round at the time the tournament was called off.

Qualifying teams

Automatic bids (43)

The following 43 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2020 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).^[3]

Automatic bids
Conference	Team	Record (Conf.)	Appearance	Last bid
Allegheny Mountain	La Roche	21–6 (19–1)	3rd	2018
American Rivers	Nebraska Wesleyan	24–3 (15–1)	17th	2019
American Southwest	LeTourneau	23–5 (13–3)	2nd	2018
Capital	York (PA)	22–5 (9–1)	7th	2019
Centennial	Johns Hopkins	24–3 (16–2)	12th	2018
CUNYAC	Brooklyn	13–15 (7–7)	5th	2016
CCIW	Elmhurst	23–5 (11–5)	6th	2016
Colonial States	Cairn	18–9 (11–3)	1st	Never
Commonwealth Coast	Nichols	20–8 (12–4)	4th	2019
Empire 8	St. John Fisher	19–8 (12–2)	17th	2017
Great Northeast	St. Joseph (CT)	26–2 (11–0)	1st	Never
Heartland	Transylvania	19–8 (13–5)	10th	2013
Landmark	Susquehanna	20–7 (11–3)	8th	2017
Liberty	Ithaca	23–5 (15–3)	11th	2013
Little East	Western Connecticut	20–7 (12–4)	13th	2012
MAC Commonwealth	Lycoming	20–8 (10–6)	8th	2017
MAC Freedom	Stevens	23–4 (12–2)	3rd	2013
MASCAC	Westfield State	20–7 (10–2)	4th	2015
Michigan	Adrian	17–11 (8–6)	1st	Never
Midwest	Ripon	20–7 (14–4)	14th	2017
Minnesota	St. John's (MN)	25–2 (19–1)	11th	2019
NECC	New England College	21–6 (10–2)	2nd	2018
NESCAC	Tufts	21–6 (8–2)	6th	2017
NEWMAC	Coast Guard	14–13 (6–8)	4th	2008
New Jersey	TCNJ	19–8 (14–4)	7th	1998
North Atlantic	SUNY Canton	16–11 (10–4)	1st	Never
North Coast	Wooster	21–7 (12–6)	29th	2019
NEAC	Penn State Harrisburg	20–7 (14–2)	1st	Never
Northern Athletics	Concordia (WI)	19–9 (15–5)	4th	2015
Northwest	Whitman	20–7 (13–3)	5th	2019
Ohio	Mount Union	25–3 (17–1)	3rd	2015
Old Dominion	Randolph–Macon	26–2 (15–1)	17th	2019
Presidents'	Grove City	20–8 (13–3)	6th	2010
Skyline	Yeshiva	27–1 (16–0)	2nd	2018
Southern	Centre	24–4 (11–3)	17th	2014
SCIAC	Pomona–Pitzer	22–5 (13–3)	13th	2019
SCAC	Centenary (LA)	18–9 (13–5)	1st	Never
SLIAC	Webster	19–8 (16–2)	5th	2014
SUNYAC	SUNY Brockport	24–3 (17–1)	12th	2018
UAA	Emory	21–4 (11–3)	9th	2019
Upper Midwest	Bethany Lutheran	21–6 (14–2)	2nd	2018
USA South	Methodist	18–10 (11–6)	6th	2005
Wisconsin	UW–Oshkosh	19–8 (11–3)	10th	2019

At-large bids (21)

The following 21 teams were awarded qualification for the tournament field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee.^[3] 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.^[4] By rule, one bid is reserved for teams in Pool B if there are enough teams that qualify for it. Pool B is for teams that are either independents or whose conference does not yet qualify for an automatic bid.

At-large bids
Conference	Team	Record (Conf.)	Appearance	Last bid	Pool
NEWMAC	Babson	20–6 (10–4)	10th	2017	C
Northern Athletics	Benedictine (IL)	20–6 (16–4)	9th	2017	C
Capital	Christopher Newport	21–6 (9–1)	24th	2019	C
NESCAC	Colby	24–3 (8–2)	4th	1997	C
Liberty	Hobart	21–5 (15–3)	5th	2014	C
Ohio	Marietta	21–6 (14–4)	9th	2019	C
NESCAC	Middlebury	20–5 (6–4)	11th	2019	C
CCIW	North Central (IL)	21–5 (14–2)	12th	2019	C
Liberty	RPI	23–4 (17–1)	6th	2009	C
NEWMAC	Springfield	22–4 (11–1)	10th	2018	C
Midwest	St. Norbert	23–4 (17–1)	9th	2016	C
Minnesota	St. Thomas (MN)	24–3 (19–1)	20th	2019	C
Centennial	Swarthmore	26–1 (18–0)	4th	2019	C
American Southwest	Texas–Dallas	21–6 (14–2)	7th	2019	C
Wisconsin	UW–Eau Claire	19–9 (8–6)	3rd	2001	C
Wisconsin	UW–Platteville	22–4 (12–2)	13th	2019	C
UAA	Washington–St. Louis	20–5 (11–3)	22nd	2018	C
Atlantic East	Wesley	18–9 (10–2)	5th	2014	B
Northwest	Whitworth	21–6 (14–2)	14th	2018	C
North Coast	Wittenberg	26–2 (17–1)	30th	2019	C
NEWMAC	WPI	20–7 (10–3)	13th	2016	C

Tournament bracket

^[5]

* – Denotes overtime period

Top-left

First round March 6 Campus Sites

Second round March 7 Campus Sites

Third Round March 14 Campus Sites

Quarterfinals March 20 Fort Wayne, IN

Swarthmore

85

Brooklyn

51

Swarthmore

86

Swarthmore, PA

Ithaca

78

Babson

88

Ithaca

94*

Swarthmore

Whitworth

Texas–Dallas

83

Centenary (LA)

81

Texas–Dallas

66

Richardson, TX

Whitworth

73

LeTourneau

86

Whitworth

88

SUNY Brockport

92

Coast Guard

86

SUNY Brockport

84

Brockport, NY

Middlebury

81

Middlebury

78

Westfield State

69

SUNY Brockport

Tufts

Tufts

74

Western Connecticut

72

Tufts

75

Medford, MA

RPI

66

RPI

58

New England College

57

Bottom-left

	First round March 6 Campus Sites					Second round March 7 Campus Sites					Third round March 14 Campus Sites					Quarterfinals March 20 Fort Wayne, IN
	UW–Platteville		86
	Concordia (WI)		74
						UW–Platteville		70
	Platteville, WI
						St. Thomas (MN)		73
	St. Thomas (MN)		67
	St. Norbert		60
											St. Thomas (MN)
											St. John's (MN)
	St. John's (MN)		87
	Ripon		75
						St. John's (MN)		78
	Collegeville, MN
						UW–Eau Claire		69
	Whitman		61
	UW–Eau Claire		78
	Emory		78
	Methodist		74
						Emory		70
	Atlanta, GA
						Pomona–Pitzer		71
	Centre		64
	Pomona–Pitzer		84
											Pomona–Pitzer
											Elmhurst
	Wooster		62
	Grove City		67
						Grove City		66
	Wooster, OH
						Elmhurst		84
	Elmhurst		97
	Lycoming		73

Top-right

First round March 6 Campus Sites

Second round March 7 Campus Sites

Third round March 13 Campus Sites

Quarterfinals March 20 Fort Wayne, IN

Mount Union

107

Cairn

76

Mount Union

90

Alliance, OH

York (PA)

77

York (PA)

88

St. John Fisher

67

Mount Union

Wittenberg

Wittenberg

83

La Roche

55

Wittenberg

77

Springfield, OH

Susquehanna

73

Benedictine (IL)

59

Susquehanna

64

Randolph–Macon

81

Wesley

69

Randolph–Macon

85

Ashland, VA

TCNJ

71

Marietta

73

TCNJ

89

Randolph–Macon

Yeshiva

Johns Hopkins

96

Penn State Harrisburg

104**

Penn State Harrisburg

83

Baltimore, MD^[a]

Yeshiva

102

WPI

78

Yeshiva

102

1. Due to precautions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials announced that spectators will not be admitted to first and second round games to be played in Baltimore.^[1]

Bottom-right

	First round March 6 Campus Sites					Second round March 7 Campus Sites					Third round March 13 Campus Sites					Quarterfinals March 20 Fort Wayne, IN
	Springfield		74
	SUNY Canton		49
						Springfield		61
	Springfield, MA
						Hobart		62
	Hobart		78
	St. Joseph (CT)		74
											Hobart
											Christopher Newport
	Stevens		72
	Nichols		74
						Nichols		82
	Hoboken, NJ
						Christopher Newport		91
	Colby		64
	Christopher Newport		74
	Nebraska Wesleyan		77
	Webster		73
						Nebraska Wesleyan		58
	Lincoln, NE
						Washington–St. Louis		79
	Washington–St. Louis		102
	Bethany Lutheran		68
											Washington–St. Louis
											North Central (IL)
	North Central (IL)		74
	Adrian		58
						North Central (IL)		84
	Naperville, IL
						UW–Oshkosh		82
	UW–Oshkosh		74
	Transylvania		58

Final Four

Those rounds were cancelled.

	National semifinal March 21^[a] Fort Wayne, IN					National championship April 5 Atlanta, GA

1. Subject to rescheduling to accommodate Yeshiva University policy concerning athletic competition and Shabbat.^[6]

See also

• 2020 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament
• 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
• 2020 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
• 2020 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament
• 2020 NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament

References

1. "Update on NCAA Men's Basketball Games at Johns Hopkins". Johns Hopkins Athletics. March 5, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
2. "NCAA cancels remaining winter and spring championships due to coronavirus concerns". NCAA.com. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
3. "2020 men's conference tournament tracker". D3Sports.com. March 1, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
4. "2018-19 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Pre-Championship Manual" (PDF). NCAA. October 2019. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
5. "2020 Division III Men's Basketball Official Bracket". NCAA. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
6. "Faith before basketball for Yeshiva University champions". ABC News. March 1, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2020.}