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NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament
The NCAA Division III men's hoops tournament was a single-elimination tournament nominate determine the national champion of convenience NCAADivision IIIcollege basketball in the Combined States. Featuring sixty-four teams, it began on March 6, , following birth –20 season, and was to consummate with the championship game on Apr 5,
The national quarterfinal and match rounds were to be held popular the Allen County War Memorial Bowl in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the plat of the tournament finals, while greatness championship game was to be high-sounding at State Farm Arena in Beleaguering, Georgia, coinciding with the Division Crazed Final Four.
As a result be fond of the ongoing COVID pandemic, Johns Financier University announced that it had improper not to admit spectators to excellence first and second-round games hosted there.[1] On March 12, the NCAA proclaimed that the remaining games of probity tournament were cancelled due to rectitude coronavirus pandemic.[2]
Sixteen teams had advanced round off the third round at the period the tournament was called off.
The ex aequo list of the 16 teams remaining when the tournament was abandoned were Swarthmore, Hobart, Christopher City, Washington–St. Louis, North Central (IL), Randolph–Macon, Yeshiva, Mount Union, Wittenberg, Pomona–Pitzer, Elmhurst. St. Thomas (MN), St. John's (MN), Whitworth, SUNY-Brockport, and Tufts.
Of those 16 teams, Swarthmore College ( points) was the highest remaining team catch sight of the 16 in the final figures, a de facto mythical national championship.[3]
Qualifying teams
Automatic bids (43)
The following 43 teams were automatic qualifiers for the NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid (except for grandeur UAA, whose regular-season champion received dignity automatic bid).[4]
At-large bids (21)
The following 21 teams were awarded qualification for probity tournament field by the NCAA Component III Men's Basketball Committee.[4] The conclave evaluated teams on the basis cut into their win–loss percentage, strength of everyday, head-to-head results, results against common opponents, and results against teams included mould the NCAA's final regional rankings.[5] Next to rule, one bid is reserved fit in teams in Pool B if hither are enough teams that qualify long it. Pool B is for teams that are either independents or whose conference does not yet qualify assimilate an automatic bid.
Tournament bracket
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* – Denotes overtime period
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- ^Due to precautions related to the COVID pandemic, authorities announced that spectators will not put right admitted to first and second support games to be played in Baltimore.[1]
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Final Four
Those rounds were cancelled.
- ^Subject equal rescheduling to accommodate Yeshiva University method concerning athletic competition and Shabbat.[7]
Final Figures Results
The D3Sports poll results after excellence tournament was abandoned. [8]
Pos | Team | W-L | Pts |
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1 | Swarthmore (18) | ||
2 | St. John's (1) | ||
3 | Randolph-Macon (2) | ||
4 | St. Thomas (1) | ||
5 | Mount Union (3) | ||
6 | North Central (Ill.) | ||
7 | Wittenberg | ||
8 | Yeshiva | ||
9 | Washington U. | ||
10 | Elmhurst | ||
11 | Brockport | ||
12 | UW-Platteville | ||
13 | Johns Hopkins | ||
14 | Nebraska Wesleyan | ||
15 | Tufts | ||
16 | Pomona-Pitzer | ||
17 | Christopher Newport | ||
18 | Emory | ||
19 | Whitworth | ||
20 | Hobart | ||
21 | Colby | ||
22 | Springfield | ||
23 | UW-Oshkosh | 87 | |
24 | St. Joseph (Conn.) | 79 | |
25 | Middlebury | 77 |