NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Committee released the names of the field of 63 teams for the 2008 championship.

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 63 teams for the 2008 championship.

Thirty-nine conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the 2008 championship. Three teams were 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. The final 21 berths were reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.

One first-round game will be conducted March 5, one second-round game will be conducted March 8 and 15 first/second-round games will be conducted March 7-8. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 14-15. Winners of the four sectional games will advance to the national semi-finals March 21-22. All games, except the finals, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The finals will be conducted at DeVos Fieldhouse, Hope College, Holland, Michigan.

Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (39):

Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference – Medaille
American Southwest Conference – Howard Payne
Capital Athletic Conference – Mary Washington
Centennial Conference – Muhlenberg
City University of New York Athletic Conference – Baruch
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Ill. Wesleyan
Commonwealth Conference – Messiah
Commonwealth Coast Conference – Colby-Sawyer
Empire 8 – Utica
Freedom Conference – DeSales
Great Northeast Athletic Conference – Emmanuel (Mass.)
Great South Athletic Conference – Piedmont
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Manchester
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Simpson
Liberty League – St. Lawrence
Little East Conference – Eastern Conn. St.
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference – Bridgewater St.
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Hope
Midwest Conference – St. Norbert
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Carleton
New England Small College Athletic Conference – Amherst
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletics Conference – Wheaton (Mass.)
New Jersey Athletic Conference – Kean
North Atlantic Conference – Becker
North Coast Athletic Conference – Denison
North Eastern Athletic Conference – D’Youville
Northwest Conference – Puget Sound
Ohio Athletic Conference – Baldwin-Wallace
Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Bridgewater (Va.)
Pennsylvania Athletic Conference – Cabrini
Presidents’ Athletic Conference – Thomas More
Skyline Conference – Mount St. Mary (N.Y.)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Maryville (Mo.)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – La Verne
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – DePauw
State University of New York Athletic Conference – Brockport St.
University Athletic Association – Chicago
USA South Athletic Conference – Greensboro
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wis.-Stevens Point

Pool B Berths (3):
Chapman
Juniata
Scranton

Pool C Berths (21):
Albright
Bowdoin
Brandeis
George Fox
Gust. Adolphus
Marymount (Va.)
McMurry
Oglethorpe
Rochester
Salem St.
Southern Me.
St. Thomas (Minn.)
TCNJ
Trinity (Tex.)
Tufts
Washington-St. Louis
Wilmington (Ohio)
Wm. Paterson
William Smith
Wis.-Eau Claire
Wis.-Whitewater

The complete bracket and pairings will be announced via webcast (audio only) on www.ncaa.com at 9 a.m. Eastern time Monday, March 3. The selection announcement will be made through Hoopsville, the weekly Internet radio show, run through D3hoops.com. The announcement and the full bracket will be posted at www.ncaa.com.