Play in the 2007 NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament begins Wednesday with seven first-round games.
The field of 57 teams includes the champions of 37 conferences and four teams that are independents or members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final 16 slots consisted of at-large berths.
The seven first-round winners will meet seven teams that received first-round byes on Saturday. Nine sites will host four teams for first- and second-round competition Friday-Saturday or Saturday-Sunday.
Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 16-17 or 17-18, and those sectional winners will advance to the finals Nov. 23-24 at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Fla.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (37):
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference: Penn State-Behrend (13-4-3)
American Southwest Conference: Texas-Dallas (14-3-3)
Capital Athletic Conference: Salisbury (15-4-1)
Centennial Conference: Johns Hopkins (17-3-0)
City University of New York Athletic Conference: York (New York) (14-5-1)
College Conference: of Illinois and Wisconsin Wheaton (Illinois) (13-6-1)
Commonwealth Conference: Messiah (18-2-0)
Commonwealth Coast Conference: Western New England (14-5-2)
Empire 8 Athletic Conference: Stevens Institute of Technology(17-1-2)
Freedom Conference: DeSales (10-9-2)
Great Northeast Athletic Conference: Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) (14-4-3)
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference: Transylvania (15-2-1)
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference : Loras (20-0-1)
Liberty League: Hamilton (9-4-3)
Little East Conference : Eastern Connecticut State (11-6-3)
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference: Bridgewater State (8-10-2)
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Calvin (13-4-2)
Midwest Conference: Carroll (Wisconsin) (14-5-1)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Gustavus Adolphus (17-3-1)
New England Small College Athletic Conference: Middlebury (14-2-1)
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference : Wheaton (Massachusetts) (12-6-3)
New Jersey Athletic Conference: Montclair State (17-2-1)
North Atlantic Conference: Castleton (13-7-1)
North Coast Athletic Conference: Ohio Wesleyan (15-5-1)
North Eastern Athletic Conference: Keuka (10-6-1)
Northwest Conference: Whitworth (14-3-1)
Ohio Athletic Conference: John Carroll (12-8-0)
Old Dominion Athletic Conference: Roanoke (12-7-1)
Pennsylvania Athletic Conference: Eastern (13-5-1)
President’s Athletic Conference: Washington and Jefferson (12-5-3)
Skyline Conference: Old Westbury (12-3-1)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Principia (17-1-1)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Redlands (17-3-0)
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference: Trinity (Texas) (18-0-0)
State University of New York Athletic Conference: Fredonia State (12-6-2)
University Athletic Association: Rochester (13-2-2)
USA South Athletic Conference: Greensboro (13-4-3)
Pool B Berths (4):
Dominican (Illinois) (16-3-1)
UC Santa Cruz (15-4-0)
Wisconsin-Oshkosh (15-2-1)
Wisconsin-Whitewater (15-2-2)
Pool C Berths (16):
Amherst (14-2-0)
Carthage (13-6-2)
Dickinson (13-2-3)
Emory (16-2-0)
Franklin & Marshall (15-3-0)
Hobart (11-3-3)
Keene State (11-4-5)
Muhlenberg (12-4-0)
New Jersey City (16-4-1)
New York University (13-4-1)
North Carolina Wesleyan (16-1-0)
Virginia Wesleyan (16-3-0)
Wartburg (15-3-2)
Washington Univ.(13-4-2)
Williams (10-4-2)
York (Pa.) (19-2-0)