For Immediate Release
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Tournament Website
BURNSVILLE, Minn. – The 2024 NSIC Softball Tournament bracket has been set as regular season play concluded Sunday. The top ten teams in the final regular season standings will participate in the single-elimination tournament, which will be held May 1-4 at Bowden Field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; hosted by Augustana University.
Augustana earned the number one seed after winning its fourth straight
NSIC Regular Season Championship with its 27-1 record. The league championship marks the seventh title for the Vikings since joining the NSIC in 2008-09.
Tiebreaker: MSU Moorhead swept Minnesota State during the regular season to earn the fourth seed.
The winner of the NSIC Softball Tournament will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Central Region Tournament, played May 9-11. The 41-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 NCAA softball selections will be announced on www.NCAA.com on Monday, May 6. The NCAA Championships are set for May 19-25 at Boombah-Soldiers Creek Park in Orlando, Florida.
About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 15-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with institutions located in 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 27 team national championships and crowned 113 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.
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