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WU, ESU, UCM Earn Women's Postseason Bids
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - MIAA regular season and tournament
champion Washburn along with Central Missouri and Emporia State
have earned spots in the field of 64 teams for the 2010 NCAA
Division II Women's Basketball Championship, the NCAA Division II
Women's Basketball Committee announced Sunday night.
Twenty-two conferences have been awarded automatic
qualification. The committee selected the remaining 42 teams
at-large.
All eight teams within the region will travel to one site for
first-round, semifinal and final competition at the regional level,
except in the Atlantic region. The Atlantic region will utilize a
two-host site format in which the No. 1 seed and the No. 2 seed
each host a four-team tournament.
The winner of each site will compete for the regional championship at the site of the highest remaining seed. First-round games will be played March 12 and regional semifinal games March 13. Regional championship games will be contested March 15.
The regional champions will advance to the NCAA Women's Elite
Eight March 23, 24 and 26 at St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph,
Missouri. Missouri Western State University will host the Elite
Eight.
Conferences that received automatic qualification, and the
institutions representing them, are as follows:
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California Collegiate Athletic Association |
Humboldt State |
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Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference |
Nyack |
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Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Fayetteville State |
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Conference Carolinas |
Anderson (South Carolina) |
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East Coast Conference |
Molloy |
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Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Michigan Tech |
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Great Lakes Valley Conference |
Drury |
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Great Northwest Athletic Conference |
Seattle Pacific |
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Gulf South Conference |
Arkansas Tech |
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Heartland Conference |
St. Mary's (Texas) |
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Lone Star Conference |
West Texas A&M |
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Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association |
Washburn |
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Northeast-10 Conference |
Franklin Pierce |
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Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference |
Wayne State (Nebraska) |
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Pacific West Conference |
Hawaii Pacific |
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Peach Belt Conference |
Clayton State |
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Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference |
Gannon |
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Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference |
Colorado State-Pueblo |
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South Atlantic Conference |
Tusculum |
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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Benedict |
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Sunshine State Conference |
Lynn |
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West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Fairmont State |
Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order:
Adams State
Alaska Anchorage
Augustana (South Dakota)
Barry
Bentley
Bridgeport
UC San Diego
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal State Chico
California (Pennsylvania)
Carson-Newman
Central Missouri
Central Oklahoma
Colorado School of Mines
Concordia-St. Paul
Delta State
Emporia State
Findlay
Fort Lewis
Fort Valley State
Francis Marion
Holy Family
Indianapolis
Lander
Lenoir-Rhyne
Millersville
Minnesota Duluth
Newberry
Northeastern State
Northern Kentucky
Northern Michigan
Pace
Seton Hill
Southern Indiana
Stonehill
Tampa
Tarleton State
Valdosta State
Virginia State
West Liberty
Western Washington
Wisconsin-Parkside
For more information about the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Championship log on to www.ncaa.com.
