The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has officially announced the teams and pairings for the 2017 NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship, including four squads from the GPAC.
Regular season GPAC champ Briar Cliff is joined by post season tourney winner Northwestern as well as Dakota Wesleyan and Midland.
The 32-team event will get underway on March 8 with the Championship game on Tuesday, March 14.
This year’s field includes 22 automatic qualifiers, nine at-large selections and one host berth (College of the Ozarks (Mo.)). Automatic berths were given to teams that either won their respective conference tournament title, regular-season championship, finished runner-up at the conference tournament. The at-large bids were determined by the final 2017 NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll announced Wednesday.
