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The NCAA regional release is out with the final regional rankings. These were the rankings used to select and pair up the teams.
Regional rankings primarily take Division III games into account.
Teams are listed with their Division III record only. For more information about the playoff format and how participants are determined, check out our FAQ.
Teams in bold have clinched automatic bids. The numbers listed are a team's Division III record and their D-III strength of schedule. (The committee will dive even further into that and consider a team's results against regionally ranked opponents, or RROs.)
How to use regional rankings: If you are an at-large candidate, you want to be sure you are the top at-large candidate in your region. That will ensure you get discussed by the national committee and have a chance to be put in the field.
There are 28 automatic bids, zero Pool B bids (teams not in the 28 automatic bid conferences) and four Pool C (true national at-large) bids.
| Region | Rank | Team | vs. D3 | Overall | SOS | v. RRO |
| Region 1 | ||||||
| 1 | Springfield | 9-1 | 9-1 | .596 | 2-1 | |
| 2 | Endicott | 9-1 | 9-1 | .570 | 1-1 | |
| 3 | Delaware Valley | 9-1 | 9-1 | .526 | 2-1 | |
| No at-large bids in this region. | ||||||
| 4 | Salve Regina | 8-2 | 8-2 | .531 | 1-1 | |
| 5 | Merchant Marine | 7-2 | 7-2 | .544 | 0-2 | |
| 6 | King's | 8-2 | 8-2 | .486 | 0-2 | |
| 7 | Widener | 7-3 | 7-3 | .487 | 1-1 | |
| Region 2 | ||||||
| 1 | Johns Hopkins | 10-0 | 10-0 | .598 | 2-0 | |
| 2 | Susquehanna | 10-0 | 10-0 | .547 | 1-0 | |
| 3 | Cortland | 9-1 | 9-1 | .626 | 2-1 | |
| 4 | Grove City | 10-0 | 10-0 | .500 | 0-0 | |
| 5 | Ithaca | 8-2 | 8-2 | .673 | 2-2 | |
| 6 | Union | 9-1 | 9-1 | .559 | 1-1 | |
| No at-large bids below here. | ||||||
| 7 | Muhlenberg | 9-1 | 9-1 | .548 | 0-1 | |
| Region 3 | ||||||
| 1 | Randolph-Macon | 10-0 | 10-0 | .503 | 1-0 | |
| 2 | Trinity (Texas) | 9-1 | 9-1 | .515 | 1-1 | |
| 3 | Hardin-Simmons | 9-1 | 9-1 | .513 | 1-1 | |
| No at-large bids in this region. | ||||||
| 4 | Berry | 9-1 | 9-1 | .469 | 1-1 | |
| 5 | Belhaven | 8-1 | 9-1 | .410 | 1-0 | |
| 6 | Washington & Lee | 7-2 | 8-2 | .528 | 0-1 | |
| 7 | Huntingdon | 8-2 | 8-2 | .468 | 0-2 | |
| Region 4 | ||||||
| 1 | Mount Union | 10-0 | 10-0 | .494 | 2-0 | |
| 2 | Alma | 10-0 | 10-0 | .502 | 1-0 | |
| 3 | DePauw | 10-0 | 10-0 | .476 | 0-0 | |
| No at-large bids in this region. | ||||||
| 4 | Hope | 8-2 | 8-2 | .623 | 1-2 | |
| 5 | John Carroll | 8-2 | 8-2 | .535 | 1-2 | |
| 6 | Mount St. Joseph | 9-1 | 9-1 | .479 | 0-1 | |
| 7 | Marietta | 8-2 | 8-2 | .502 | 0-2 | |
| Region 5 | ||||||
| 1 | Wartburg | 10-0 | 10-0 | .561 | 3-0 | |
| 2 | North Central | 9-0 | 10-0 | .517 | 2-0 | |
| 3 | Aurora | 10-0 | 10-0 | .510 | 1-0 | |
| 4 | Wheaton | 9-1 | 9-1 | .525 | 1-1 | |
| 5 | Coe | 9-1 | 9-1 | .503 | 1-1 | |
| No at-large bids below here. | ||||||
| 6 | Central | 8-2 | 8-2 | .500 | 0-2 | |
| 7 | Augustana | 8-2 | 8-2 | .501 | 0-2 | |
| Region 6 | ||||||
| 1 | UW-La Crosse | 7-1 | 9-1 | .602 | 2-1 | |
| 2 | UW-Whitewater | 9-1 | 9-1 | .616 | 3-1 | |
| No at-large bids below here. | ||||||
| 3 | St. John's | 8-2 | 8-2 | .635 | 2-1 | |
| 4 | Whitworth | 8-0 | 9-0 | .508 | 1-0 | |
| 5 | Bethel | 8-2 | 8-2 | .602 | 0-2 | |
| 6 | Linfield | 8-1 | 8-1 | .508 | 0-1 | |
| 7 | UW-River Falls | 7-3 | 7-3 | .569 | 0-2 |