Division II Men's Basketball Committee Announces Championship Field
Seven HBCUs Picked
Mrch 7, 2004
INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Committee
has announced the field of 64 teams for the 2004 NCAA
Division II Men's Basketball Championship.
Twenty-two conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining
42 teams were selected at large by the committee.
Eight regional tournaments, consisting of eight teams each, will be conducted
March 13, 14 and 16 at regional sites. The eight quarterfinalists will advance
to the finals at Centennial Garden in Bakersfield, California, March 24, 25
and 27.
Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows:
California
Collegiate Athletic Association: Cal State San Bernardino
Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference: Pfeiffer
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Virginia Union
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Findlay
Great Lakes Valley Conference: Kentucky Wesleyan
Great Northwest Conference: Humboldt State
Gulf South Conference: Montevallo
Heartland Conference: Drury
Lone Star Conference: Tarleton State
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association: Northwest Missouri State
New York Collegiate Athletic Conference: C.W. Post
North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Nebraska-Omaha
Northeast-10 Conference: Massachusetts-Lowell
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference: Northern State
Pacific West Conference: Brigham Young-Hawaii
Peach Belt Conference: Kennesaw State
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference: Indiana (Pa.)
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Metro State
South Atlantic Conference: Catawba Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Benedict
Sunshine State Conference: Eckerd
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Alderson-Broaddus
Those HBCU's receiving at-large berths are Bowie State,
Cheyney,
District of Columbia,
Morehouse and
West Virginia State.
The 48th annual championship game will be broadcast live on CBS at 10 a.m.
Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern).
