Men's Soccer to Face Stevens in NCAA First Round
INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Committee announced the field of 64 teams for the 2022 NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championship.
Worcester State will face off in the opening round versus at Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday November 12, 1pm.
Forty-three conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the championship. 1 team will be selected from Pool B. The other 20 berths were reserved for Pool C with, which includes institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that did not win their conference championship and any remaining Pool B teams.
All tournament games leading up to the national semifinals will be played on the campuses of the competing institutions. Sixteen sites will host four teams for first-and second round competition Nov. 11 and 12 or 12 and 13.
Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 18 and 19 or 19 and 20. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the national semifinals, which take place Dec. 1 at Kerr Soccer Stadium in Salem, Virginia, with Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the City of Salem serving as hosts. The national championship game will be played Dec. 3. The Division III women’s soccer national semifinals and championship games will also be held at Kerr Soccer Stadium Dec. 2 and Dec. 4. If a women’s Sunday no play institution advances to the final site, championship will be Dec. 2 and Dec 4.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (43): Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Mount Aloysius, American Rivers Conference Luther, American Southwest Conference Mary Hardin-Baylor, Atlantic East Marymount, Centennial Conference Muhlenberg, City University of New York Athletic Conference Lehman, Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference Mary Washington College, Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin North Central (IL), Colonial States Athletic Conference Rosemont, Commonwealth Coast Conference Roger Williams, Empire 8 Medaille, Great Northeast Athletic Conference St. Joseph’s (Conn.), Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Rose-Hulman, Landmark Conference Scranton, Liberty League St. Lawrence, Little East Conference UMass-Boston,
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference- Worcester St.
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Calvin, Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Messiah, Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Stevens Institute of Technology, Midwest Conference Lake Forest, Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference St. Olaf, New England Collegiate Conference New England College, New England Small College Athletic Conference New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference Amherst Babson, New Jersey Athletic Conference Rowan, North Atlantic Conference Husson, North Coast Athletic Conference Ohio Wesleyan, Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Aurora, Northwest Conference Williamette, Ohio Athletic Conference John Carroll, Old Dominion Athletic Conference Washington and Lee, Presidents’ Athletic Conference Franciscan, Skyline Conference Merchant Marine, Southern Athletic Association Birmingham-Southern, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Chapman, Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference St. Thomas (Texas), St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Greenville, State University of New York Athletic Conference SUNY Oneonta, University Athletic Association UChicago, United East Penn State Harrisburg, Upper Midwest Athletic Conference Wisconsin-Superior, USA South Athletic Conference Brevard
Pool B Berths (1)
Wisconsin Eau-Claire
Pool C Berths (20):
Christopher Newport
Bowdoin
Carnegie Mellon
Catholic
CWRU
Franklin & Marshall
Gustavus Adolphus
Johns Hopkins
Kenyon
Lynchburg
Middlebury
North Park
NYU
Ohio Northern
Pacific Lutheran
SUNY Cortland
Tufts
Vassar
Williams
Wisconsin-Platteville
Log on to ncaa.com for more information regarding the 2022 championship, including the complete bracket with dates and sites. Connecticut College is the defending national champion, having defeated Amherst in the 2021 championship game.