Stevens Draws Winner of Southern Maine/Skidmore
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The NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Committee has selected the 43 teams that will compete in the 2015 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championship.
Stevens Institute of Technology will represent the Empire 8 and will play the winner of University of Southern Maine/No. 30 Skidmore on May 8 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
The Ducks (19-5) clinched an automatic bid on Sunday with their Empire 8 Conference Championship win over Ithaca College, and the appearance will be their sixth in-a-row.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second and third rounds played at regional sites May 8-10. Ohio Northern University and the Warren County Convention and Visitors Bureau will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 18-20 at Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio.
The championships provide for a 43-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 34 conference champions, which form "Pool A." Four teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining five 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.
Amherst is the defending national champion, having defeated Claremont-M-S, 5-3, to claim the team title.