INDIANAPOLIS -The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Committee announced today the field of 48 teams that will compete in the 2021 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship. 
Sixteen conferences have been awarded automatic qualification.  The remaining 32 teams were selected at large by the committee. 
 
Seven regional tournaments, consisting of six teams each will be conducted March 13, 14 and 16. The west regional will be conducted March 12, 13 and 15. The eight regional champions will advance to the quarterfinals in conjunction with the 2021 NCAA Division II Men's Elite Eight. The quarterfinal, semifinal and championship games will be conducted at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana March 24, 25 & 27.  
 
Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows:
 
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference - Bloomfield
Conference Carolinas - Belmont Abbey
East Coast Conference - St. Thomas Aquinas
Great American Conference - Arkansas-Monticello
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Ashland
Great Lakes Valley Conference - Lewis
Great Midwest Athletic Conference - Malone
Gulf South Conference - Valdosta State
Lone Star Conference - West Texas A&M
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association - Washburn
Mountain East Conference - Fairmont State
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference - Northern State
Pacific West Conference - Biola
Peach Belt Conference - Flagler
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference - Colorado Mesa
South Atlantic Conference - Carson-Newman
 
Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows: 
Alabama Huntsville 
Caldwell 
Charleston (West Virginia) 
Colorado School of Mines 
Daemen 
Dallas Baptist University 
Dominican (New York) 
Emmanuel (Georgia) 
Fresno Pacific 
Georgia Southwestern 
Hillsdale 
Lee 
Lincoln Memorial 
Lubbock Christian 
Mercyhurst 
Michigan Tech 
Minnesota State University Moorhead 
Missouri Western 
Northwest Missouri State 
Northwest Nazarene 
Nyack 
Oklahoma Baptist 
Point Loma
Queens (North Carolina) 
Southern Arkansas 
Southern Indiana 
Truman 
Tusculum 
Wayne State (Michigan)
Wayne State (Nebraska) 
West Georgia 
West Liberty 

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Northwest Missouri State defeated Point Loma, 64-58, to win the 2019 NCAA Division II Men's 
Elite Eight championship game in Evansville, Indiana.
 
Atlantic Region  - Central Region -  East Region -  Midwest Region
South Central Region - South Region -  Southeast Region -  West Region
 
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