INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Trinity University, the 2014 SCAC men's tennis champions, will represent the league in the 2014 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championship. Printable Bracket | Interactive Bracket
Trinity earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA championship field via the program's 19th SCAC title. The conference championship was the Tigers' fifthstraight SCAC crown.
The 2014 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championship begin May 9th, but Trinity (22-6) will not play until May 10th as the Tigers received a first round bye. Trinity will square off against the winner of the Grinnell (31-5) and Wisconsin Lutheran (10-2) first round matchup.
Also competing in Trinity's bracket is host institution Gustavus Adolphus (28-5) who will battle Wisconsin-Whitewater in second round play. The winner of that matchup will take on the winner of the Trinity matchup for a spot in the NCAA Quarterfinals set for May 19th in Claremont, Calif.
The championships provide for a 44-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 32 conference champions, which form Pool A. Five teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining seven teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second and third rounds played at regional sites, May 9-11. Claremont-M-S will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 19-21 at Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont, California. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 7.
