Mar 01, 2026
Here's who's in! The list of 21 at-large teams goes as far down as Otterbein, ranked 35th overall in NPI. The next two teams which missed the cut: Elmhurst (39th overall) and Virginia Wesleyan (40th).
The bracket, released tomorrow, will include these 64 teams.
- Final NPI numbers from D3 Datacast: Men | Women
- Hoopsville: 6 p.m. ET, Sunday
- Selection Shows on Monday: Scheduled for 1 p.m. ET (men) and 2:30 ET (women)
| Rank | Team | Conf | NPI | How? | At-large rank |
Overall seed |
| 1 | Trinity (Conn.) | NESCAC | 72.862 | AQ | - | 1 |
| 2 | Emory | UAA | 71.491 | AQ | - | 2 |
| 3 | St. Thomas (Texas) | SCAC | 70.633 | AQ | - | 3 |
| 4 | Mary Washington | C2C | 69.817 | AQ | - | 4 |
| 5 | Chicago | UAA | 69.626 | At-Lg | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Randolph-Macon | ODAC | 69.086 | At-Lg | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Endicott | CNE | 67.586 | AQ | - | 7 |
| 8 | Wesleyan | NESCAC | 67.533 | At-Lg | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Tufts | NESCAC | 67.335 | At-Lg | 4 | 9 |
| 10 | Illinois Wesleyan | CCIW | 66.577 | AQ | - | 10 |
| 11 | Christopher Newport | C2C | 66.498 | At-Lg | 5 | 11 |
| 12 | Gustavus Adolphus | MIAC | 65.826 | AQ | - | 12 |
| 13 | UW-La Crosse | WIAC | 65.652 | AQ | - | 13 |
| 14 | Washington U. | UAA | 65.506 | At-Lg | 6 | 14 |
| 15 | Montclair State | NJAC | 65.372 | At-Lg | 7 | 15 |
| 16 | Redlands | SCIAC | 65.197 | AQ | - | 16 |
| 17 | Hood | MACC | 65.141 | AQ | - | 17 |
| 18 | Mount Union | OAC | 64.365 | At-Lg | 8 | 18 |
| 19 | UW-Whitewater | WIAC | 63.898 | At-Lg | 9 | 19 |
| 20 | UW-Stevens Point | WIAC | 63.668 | At-Lg | 10 | 20 |
| 21 | Babson | NEWMAC | 63.095 | AQ | - | 21 |
| 22 | Roanoke | ODAC | 63.067 | AQ | - | 22 |
| 23 | Catholic | LAND | 63.007 | At-Lg | 11 | 23 |
| 24 | New York University | UAA | 62.939 | At-Lg | 12 | 24 |
| 25 | Franklin and Marshall | CC | 62.905 | At-Lg | 13 | 25 |
| 26 | Trinity (Texas) | SAA | 62.712 | At-Lg | 14 | 26 |
| 27 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | SCIAC | 62.507 | At-Lg | 15 | 27 |
| 28 | Bates | NESCAC | 62.346 | At-Lg | 16 | 28 |
| 29 | TCNJ | NJAC | 62.083 | AQ | - | 29 |
| 30 | WPI | NEWMAC | 62.01 | At-Lg | 17 | 30 |
| 31 | UW-Platteville | WIAC | 61.998 | At-Lg | 18 | 31 |
| 32 | John Carroll | NCAC | 61.708 | AQ | - | 32 |
| 33 | Amherst | NESCAC | 61.512 | At-Lg | 19 | 33 |
| 34 | Johns Hopkins | CC | 61.477 | At-Lg | 20 | 34 |
| 35 | Otterbein | OAC | 61.305 | At-Lg | 21 | 35 |
| 36 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | ASC | 61.264 | AQ | - | 36 |
| 37 | Rhodes | SAA | 61.175 | AQ | - | 37 |
| 38 | Cortland | SUNYAC | 60.973 | AQ | - | 38 |
| 41 | Grinnell | MWC | 60.607 | AQ | - | 39 |
| 44 | Gettysburg | CC | 60.398 | AQ | - | 40 |
| 46 | Whitworth | NWC | 60.339 | AQ | - | 41 |
| 56 | Western Connecticut | LEC | 59.114 | AQ | - | 42 |
| 61 | Loras | ARC | 58.887 | AQ | - | 43 |
| 62 | Washington & Jefferson | PAC | 58.86 | AQ | - | 44 |
| 64 | Yeshiva | SKY | 58.624 | AQ | - | 45 |
| 65 | St. Joseph's (Maine) | GNAC | 58.552 | AQ | - | 46 |
| 71 | Aurora | NACC | 58.217 | AQ | - | 47 |
| 75 | Susquehanna | LAND | 57.841 | AQ | - | 48 |
| 78 | Hope | MIAA | 57.693 | AQ | - | 49 |
| 80 | Vassar | LL | 57.57 | AQ | - | 50 |
| 99 | Maine-Farmington | NAC | 56.309 | AQ | - | 51 |
| 100 | Transylvania | HCAC | 56.309 | AQ | - | 52 |
| 101 | Penn State-Behrend | AMCC | 56.279 | AQ | - | 53 |
| 105 | Heidelberg | OAC | 56.128 | AQ | - | 54 |
| 114 | Stevens | MACF | 55.738 | AQ | - | 55 |
| 122 | N.C. Wesleyan | USAC | 55.576 | AQ | - | 56 |
| 129 | Penn State-Harrisburg | UEC | 55.404 | AQ | - | 57 |
| 144 | Lehman | CUNYAC | 54.365 | AQ | - | 58 |
| 157 | Worcester State | MASCAC | 53.611 | AQ | - | 59 |
| 165 | Neumann | AEC | 53.181 | AQ | - | 60 |
| 187 | MUW | SLIAC | 51.88 | AQ | - | 61 |
| 203 | Belhaven | CCS | 51.257 | AQ | - | 62 |
| 217 | Bethany Lutheran | UMAC | 50.496 | AQ | - | 63 |
| 234 | Keuka | E8 | 49.569 | AQ | - | 64 |