INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 58 teams that will compete in the 2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.
Six teams will compete at three regional sites and eight teams will compete at five regional sites. All regionals will use a double-elimination format. Forty conference champions qualified automatically.
Winners of the eight regional tournaments will qualify for the pool play double-elimination championship at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin, Friday- Tuesday/Wednesday, May 25- 29/30, 2018.
Dates/Sites/Seedings:
Thursday – Sunday/Monday, May 17-20/21
Adrian, Michigan Region Hosted by Adrian College
- Wooster
- Otterbein
- La Roche
- Marietta
- Shenandoah
- Ithaca
- Adrian
- Wabash
Auburn, New York Region Hosted by State University of New York at Cortland
- SUNY Cortland
- Salisbury
- Southern Maine
- Baldwin Wallace
- Swarthmore
- Amherst
- St. Joseph’s (Long Island)
- Westfield State
Duluth, Minnesota Region Hosted by The College of St. Scholastica
- Concordia Chicago
- North Central (Illinois)
- Wisconsin-Oshkosh
- Bethel (Minnesota)
- Dubuque
- Bethany Lutheran
Harwich, Massachusetts Region Hosted by Massachusetts Maritime Academy
- Massachusetts Boston
- Oswego State
- Keystone
- Western New England
- Ramapo
- Mitchell
- Suffolk
- Penn State-Berks
Holly Springs, North Carolina Region Hosted by William Peace University
- Randolph-Macon
- The College of New Jersey
- Denison
- Christopher Newport
- Alvernia
- LaGrange
Sauget, Illinois Region Hosted by St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- Webster
- Wisconsin-Whitewater
- Texas-Tyler
- Rhodes
- Franklin
- Aurora
- Monmouth (Illinois)
- Thomas More
Spokane, Washington Region Hosted by Whitworth University and Spokane Sports Commission
- Chapman
- Redlands
- Concordia University Texas
- Texas Lutheran
- Texas-Dallas
- Willamette
York, Pennsylvania Region Hosted by Middle Atlantic Conferences
- Rowan
- Babson
- Arcadia
- Virginia Wesleyan
- Misericordia
- Union
- Catholic
- Castleton
Teams at the final site will be seeded to determine first-round matchups.
Conferences receiving automatic qualification are as follows:
| CONFERENCE | SCHOOL |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | La Roche |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Dallas |
| Capital Athletic Conference | Salisbury |
| Centennial Conference | Swarthmore |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | North Central (Illinois) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Keystone College |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Western New England |
| Empire 8 Conference | Ithaca |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Suffolk |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Franklin |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Dubuque |
| Landmark Conference | Catholic |
| Liberty League | Union (New York) |
| Little East Conference | Massachusetts Boston |
| Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference | Westfield State |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Adrian |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Arcadia |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Misercordia |
| Midwest Conference | Monmouth (Illinois) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Bethel (Minnesota) |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Mitchell |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Amherst |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletics Conference | Babson |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Rowan |
| North Atlantic Conference | Castleton |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Wabash |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Penn State-Berks |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Aurora |
| Northwest Conference | Willamette |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Baldwin Wallace |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Shenandoah |
| President’s Athletic Conference | Thomas More |
| Skyline Conference | St. Joseph’s (Long Island) |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Webster |
| Southern Athletic Association | Rhodes |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Chapman |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | Oswego State |
| USA South Athletic Conference | LaGrange |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Bethany Lutheran College |
| POOL B |
|---|
| Wisconsin-Oshkosh |
| Wisconsin-Whitewater |
| POOL C |
|---|
| Alvernia |
| Christopher Newport |
| Concordia Chicago |
| Concordia University Texas |
| Denison |
| Marietta |
| Otterbein |
| Ramapo |
| Randolph-Mason |
| Redlands |
| Southern Maine |
| SUNY Cortland |
| Texas-Tyler |
| The College of New Jersey |
| Virginia Wesleyan |
| Wooster |
In the 2017 Division III championship series, Cal Lutheran rallied for two wins over Washington and Jefferson, winning game three 7-2 to capture the first NCAA Division III baseball title in school history.
