For Immediate Release
Saturday, May 7, 2022
NSIC Media Relations
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BURNSVILLE, Minn. - The 2022 NSIC Baseball Tournament bracket is set as regular season play concluded on Saturday.  The top eight teams in the final regular season standings will participate in the double-elimination tournament, which will be held May 11-14 at Ronken Field in Sioux Falls and First National Bank Field at Aspen Park in Brandon, South Dakota; co-hosted by Augustana and Sioux Falls.  

Augustana earned the number one seed after winning its second NSIC Regular Season Championship with a league record of 31-5.

Day 1 match-ups:
 

Wednesday, May 11
Ronken Field	(8) University of Mary vs. (1) Augustana	12 p.m.
FNBF	(5) Winona State vs (4) Minot State	12:30 p.m.
Ronken Field	(7) Sioux Falls vs. (2) St. Cloud State	6 p.m.
FNBF	(6) Minnesota Duluth at (3) Minnesota State	6:30 p.m.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Full Schedule at: www.NorthernSun.org/NSICBase

The winner of the NSIC Baseball Tournament will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Central Region Tournament. The 39-team NCAA Central Region is made up of teams from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and the Great American Conference (GAC). Automatic bids are awarded to the tournament champions from each conference with the final five spots awarded on an at-large basis.

The championship preliminary round competition provides for 16 regional sites that consist of 4-teams, double-elimination tournaments. The winners of these regional-round competitions advance to a super-regional round that consist of two teams competing in a best-of-three series.

The NCAA DII Baseball Selection Show will stream on NCAA.com on Sunday, May 15 at 9 p.m. central time.  

About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 16-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with institutions located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders. Formed in 1992 by the merger of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (men’s league) and the Northern Sun Conference (women’s league), the NSIC has flourished over the past quarter century, maturing into a 16-team union of Upper Midwest colleges and universities. The NSIC has won 25 team national championships and crowned 90 individual national champions. For additional information, visit NorthernSun.org.

About NCAA Division II
The NCAA, the national governing body for college athletics, is a volunteer association of more than 1,000 colleges and universities that classify their athletics programs in one of three membership divisions. The 300+ institutions in NCAA Division II support a balanced approach in which student-athletes have the opportunity to earn scholarships based on their athletic ability, pursue their desired academic degree, and participate in all the campus and surrounding community have to offer. Division II student-athletes annually graduate at rates higher than their student body peers, and they have access to the best championships-participant ratio among the NCAA’s three divisions. Division II gives student-athletes the unique opportunity to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms. For additional information, visit NCAA.org.