INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Field Hockey Committee announced today the field of 26 teams that will compete in the 2023 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship.
Twenty teams will compete in ten first-round games on campus sites Wednesday, Nov. 8. The 10 first-round winners, along with the six teams that received a first-round bye, will compete at four campus sites during second/third-round play, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 11 and 12.
The winners of the four sites will advance to the semifinals and final, Friday and Sunday, Nov. 17 and 19, at Jennings Family Stadium at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Semifinals will be played at 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern time, Friday, Nov. 17, with the championship game being played at 1 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, Nov. 19. Championship information, including information about tickets, is available at http://www.ncaa.com/sports/fieldhockey/d3.
CHAMP UPDATES: See the 2023 interactive bracket | Schedule and scores
Eighteen conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for their champions into the 2023 championship. One team was selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. Finally, seven berths were reserved for Pool C, which consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champions and the remaining teams from Pool B.
The 18 conferences and schools receiving automatic qualification are:
| Atlantic East | St. Mary’s College of Maryland |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott |
| Empire 8 | Hartwick |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Johnson & Wales (Providence) |
| Landmark | Susquehanna |
| Liberty League | William Smith |
| Little East Conference | Southern Maine |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Worcester State |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Messiah |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Stevens |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Middlebury |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletics Conference | Babson |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Rowan |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Denison |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Lynchburg |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Cortland |
| United East | Keystone |
The Pool B team is:
Christopher Newport
The seven Pool C teams are:
Bates, Ithaca, Kean, Salisbury, Tufts, Williams, York
The dates, sites and pairings are listed on the complete championship bracket, which is attached. For more information about the championship, log on to www.ncaa.com. In 2022, Middlebury won its seventh NCAA championship, sixth in last seven seasons, and fifth straight after a 1-0 win in overtime in the title game at Richard Wackar Stadium at Rowan University.
