For Immediate Release
Sunday, May 12, 2024
NCAA Bracket 

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division II Baseball Committee has selected the 56 teams that will participate in the 2024 Division II Baseball Championship. Augustana and Minnesota State will represent the NSIC in the NCAA Central Region Tournament May 16-19.  Augustana earned the fourth seed, while Minnesota State will be the eighth seed in the double elimination tournament. 

Central Missouri will serve as the host for the NCAA Central Region Pod No. 1 and is the No. 1 seed. They will play eighth-seeded Minnesota State to round out the pod. Fourth seeded Augustana will take on fifth seeded Central Oklahoma. 
 
In the region's first pod, No. 2 seed Missouri Southern State plays host to No. 3 Arkansas Tech, No. 6 Arkansas-Monticello and No. 7 Harding.

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 consists of two teams competing in a best-of-three series.

The 38-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.

Thursday, May 16
Game 1: (1) Central Missouri vs. (8) Minnesota State 
Game 2: (4) Augustana vs. (5) Central Oklahoma

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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