2019 NCAA Winter Championships

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Division 1

Men's Basketball - Virginia (1st: 2019)
Women's Basketball - Baylor (3rd: 2005; 2012; 2019)
Bowling - Stephen F Austin (2nd: 2016; 2019)
Fencing - Columbia (5th: 1992-93; 2015-16; 2019)
Men's Gymnastics - Stanford (6th: 1992-93; 1995; 2009; 2011; 2019)
Women's Gymnastics - Oklahoma (4th: 2014; 2016-17; 2019)
Men's Ice Hockey - Minnesota Duluth (3rd: 2011; 2018-19)
Women's Ice Hockey - Wisconsin (5th: 2006-07; 2009; 2011; 2019)
Rifle - TCU (3rd: 2010; 2012; 2019)
Skiing - Utah (12th: 1981; 1983-84; 1986-88; 1993; 1996-97; 2003; 2017; 2019)
Men's Swimming & Diving - California (6th: 1979-80; 2011-12; 2014; 2019)
Women's Swimming & Diving - Stanford (11th: 1983; 1989; 1992-96; 1998; 2017-19)
Men's Indoor Track & Field - Florida (5th: 2010-12; 2018-19)
Women's Indoor Track & Field - Arkansas (2nd: 2015; 2019)
Wrestling - Penn State (9th: 1953; 2011-14; 2016-19)

Division 2

Men's Basketball - Northwest Missouri State (2nd: 2017; 2019)
Women's Basketball - Lubbock Christian (2nd: 2016; 2019)
Men's Swimming & Diving - Queens (5th: 2015-19)
Women's Swimming & Diving - Queens (5th: 2015-19)
Men's Indoor Track & Field - Ashland (1st: 2019)
Women's Indoor Track & Field - Adams State (4th: 2008; 2014; 2017; 2019)
Wrestling - St. Cloud State (4th: 2015-16; 2018-19)

Division 3

Men's Basketball - Wisconsin-Oshkosh (1st: 2019)
Women's Basketball - Thomas Moore (3rd: 2015-16; 2019)
Men's Ice Hockey - Wisconsin-Stevens Point (6th: 1989-91; 1993; 2016; 2019)
Women's Ice Hockey - Plattsburgh State (8th: 2007-08; 2014-17; 2019)
Men's Swimming & Diving - Denison (5th: 2011-12; 2016; 2018-19)
Women's Swimming & Diving - Emory (12th: 2005-06; 2010-19)
Men's Indoor Track & Field - North Central (6th: 1989; 2010-12; 2017; 2019)
Women's Indoor Track & Field - Williams (2nd: 2007; 2019)
Wrestling - Augsburg (13th: 1991; 1993; 1995; 1997-98; 2000-02; 2005; 2007; 2010; 2015; 2019)

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Once again this championship season, I'll be posting national champions in each sport for the winter for all 3 divisions. As well as dates of the championships and qualifying teams (and highlighting teams from Ohio that qualify).

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Selection show schedule:

February 19 - Rifle (team and individual)
February 25 - D3 Men's & Women's Basketball, D3 Wrestling (qualifiers), D2 Wrestling (qualifiers)
February 26 - Skiing, D2 Indoor Track & Field, D1 Indoor Track & Field
February 27 - D2 Men's & Women's Swimming & Diving
March 3 - D3 Indoor Track & Field
March 4 - D3 Men's Ice Hockey, D3 Women's Ice Hockey, D3 Wrestling (Brackets), D3 Swimming & Diving (Official)
March 6 - D1 Women's Swimming & Diving
March 10 - D1 Women's Ice Hockey, D2 Men's Basketball, D2 Women's Basketball
March 12 - Fencing
March 13 - D1 Men's Swimming & Diving, D1 Wrestling
March 17 - D1 Men's Basketball
March 18 - D1 Women's Basketball
March 24 - D1 Men's Ice Hockey
March 25 - Women's Gymnastics
March 27 - Bowling
April 9 - Men's Gymnastics

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The first selection show for the 2019 NCAA winter championships aired earlier today. The team and individual qualifiers in rifle were announced today at 5pm. The rifle championships will be March 8-9 at WVU Coliseum on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.

The top eight teams in both the smallbore three-position and air rifle events were selected based on the average of the three highest regular-season aggregate scores with no more than one match at any given site. The average of the three highest scores was added to the aggregate scores from the designated qualifiers to determine the top eight teams.

The team qualifiers were as follows: Air Force, Alaska-Fairbanks, Army, Kentucky, Murray State, Navy, TCU and West Virginia.

A total of 48 competitors will compete in the championships, with 40 competitors coming from the top eight teams selected. The remaining eight competitors were selected based on the scores submitted from the designated qualifier.

Individual competitors in the smallbore competition are as follows: Brandon Bryer (Morehead State), Levi Clark (Memphis), Andre Gross (Akron) and Mitchell Van Patten (Nevada).

Individual competitors in the air rifle competition are as follows: Rosemary Kramer (Georgia Southern), Alec Patajo (Nevada), Alexa Potts (Morehead State) and Hanna Virga (Nebraska).

Individual and team competitions in smallbore three-position (60 shots) will be held Friday, March 8, and individual and team competitions in air rifle (60 shots) will be held Saturday, March 9. The overall team champion will be determined by combining the smallbore and air rifle team total scores into one aggregate score for each institution.

Press release: https://www.ncaa.com/news/rifle/article ... ealed-2019

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The bracket for the D3 men's basketball tournament was announced earlier today. The field is comprised of 64 teams. Sixteen sites will host four teams for first and second-round competition Friday-Saturday, March 1-2. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional-round sites March 8-9. Winners of the four sectional games will advance to the semi-finals and finals March 15 and 16. All games, except the semi- finals and finals, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semi-finals and finals will be conducted at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, IN.

The championship bracket is filled with colleges in Ohio. Schools that earned automatic qualifications as conference tournament champions from Ohio were Wittenberg (North Coast Athletic Conference) and Baldwin Wallace (Ohio Athletic Conference). Several others from Ohio earned at-large bids, including: Capital, Marietta and Wooster.

Defending national champions Nebraska Wesleyan earned an auto bid by winning the American Rivers Conference.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-men/d3/2019

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The bracket for the D3 women's basketball tournament was also announced today. Just like the men's side, there are 64 teams that qualified for the field. Sixteen first/second-round sites will be conducted March 1-2. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 8-9. Winners of the four sectional sites will advance to the national semifinals and final March 15-16. All games, except the semifinals/final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semifinals/final will be conducted at Cregger Center on the campus of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, hosted by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the City of Salem.

There was only one team from Ohio that earned an automatic bid to the tournament by winning their conference tournament. John Carroll did so by winning the Ohio Athletic Conference. But, Baldwin Wallace earned an at-large bid to the field as well.

2-time defending national champions Amherst made the field as an at-large team.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-women/d3/2019

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In D2 wrestling, the individual qualifiers were announced and listed earlier today. The brackets will be released by the NCAA on Friday. The championships will be March 8-9 at the The Wolstein Center on the campus of Cleveland State.

Qualifiers: https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/201 ... ampionship

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Jumping to D3 wrestling, the individual qualifiers were also announced today. The brackets will be released next Monday. The championship will be March 8-9 at the Berglund Center in Roanoke, Virginia.

Qualifiers: https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/201 ... ampionship

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The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Skiing Committee announced Tuesday the 74 men and 74 women selected to participate in the 2019 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Skiing Championships, to be held March 6-9 at the Trapp Family Lodge and Stowe Mountain Resort in Stowe, Vermont. The championships will be hosted by the University of Vermont.

Participants are selected on a regional basis from two designated regions for Alpine skiing (East and West Regions) and three designated regions for Nordic skiing (Central, East and West Regions). Bids are awarded to regions using a formula determined by the skiing committee. A maximum of 12 student-athletes (three per gender per discipline) may participate from an institution. Nordic events will be Wednesday and Friday, while alpine events will be Thursday and Saturday.

Defending national champions, Denver, will be represented in the event will look to claim another title.

Qualifiers: https://www.ncaa.com/news/skiing/2019-0 ... ected-2019

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In D2 indoor track and field, the qualifiers were announced today for both the men and women. The heat sheets for the event will be announced next Monday, but the qualifiers in the events were named today. A total of 540 participants were selected for the championships, 270 men and 270 women. The championships will be March 8-9 in Pittsburg, Kansas at the Robert W. Plaster Center. Pittsbug State University and the Crawford County Convention & Visitors Bureau will serve as co-hosts.

There are several teams from Ohio that have a large number of qualifiers in the event, and there are a couple Ohio schools that have a good chance of claiming the team title.

Qualifiers/Live Results: https://results.leonetiming.com/?mid=1581

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The qualifiers in D1 indoor track and field were also announced on Monday. The championships will be March 8-9 at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama, which will be hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the City of Birmingham.

To highlight some athletes from Ohio State in this one:

Women:
Anavia Battle is seeded 1st in the 200 meter
Julia Rizk is seeded 2nd in the mile
Sade Olatoye is seeded 1st in BOTH the shot put and weight throw

Men:
Nick Gray is seeded 12th in the 60 meter and 3rd in the 200 meter
Frank Hayes is seeded 14th in the 800 meter
Cole Gorski is seeded 15th in the pole vault

Numerous other athletes from colleges in Ohio will be competing in this as well.

Women's qualifiers: http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor19/selected_women.htm

Men's qualifiers: http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor19/selected_men.htm

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The D2 men's and women's qualifiers in swimming and diving were announced today. The championship will be March 13-16 in Indianapolis, Indiana at the IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI. Multi-time defending national champions Queens (NC) are looking to repeat yet again, and are the favorites to win the title, on both sides.

Qualifiers: https://www.ncaa.com/news/swimming-men/ ... qualifiers

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The qualifiers in D3 men's and women's indoor track & field were announced earlier this evening. The championships will be March 8-9 at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. The field is filled with talent as always, and should be another exciting championship. Mount Union will look to defend their men's national title, while UMass-Boston will look to do the same on the women's side.

Men's Qualifiers: http://tfresultsdata.deltatiming.com/20 ... ntries.htm

Women's Qualifiers: http://tfresultsdata.deltatiming.com/20 ... ntries.htm

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The bracket for the D3 men's ice hockey national championship field has been announced. The field consists of 12 teams, 8 received auto bids as conference champions, where the remaining 4 were at-large bids. The championship playoff format involves four first-round games and four quarterfinal games that are played on the campuses of the participating institutions. All games in the championship are single elimination. The four quarterfinal winners will advance to a non-predetermined site for the semifinal and championship games, which will be conducted March 22-23.

Defending national champions, St. Norbert earned a bid into the championship field by winning the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/icehockey-men/d3/2019

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The championship bracket was also announced today for D3 women's ice hockey. Of the 10 teams in the championship field, six of the teams received automatic qualification berths as winners of their conference championship. One institution was selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and institutions from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. Three institutions were selected from Pool C, which consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that were not the conference champion and independent institutions that were not selected for the Pool B berth.

First round games will be played on March 6th, followed by quarterfinal games to be played on March 9th. The highest-seeded team advancing from quarterfinals will host the semifinals March 15 and the third-place game and championship game March 16.

Norwich, the defending national champion, received a bid into the bracket as the New England Hockey Conference champion.

Bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/icehockey-women/d3/2019

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Although the individual qualifiers in D3 wrestling were announced last week, the brackets were just released today:

Brackets: https://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/default ... t_2019.pdf

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The official qualifiers in D3 men's and women's swimming and diving were also announced today. The championships will be March 20-23 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, NC. The Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the Greensboro Aquatic Center will serve as co-hosts of the event. In total, 526 swimmers and 53 divers will partake in the championships.

Qualifiers/Psych Sheet: https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/defaul ... -sheet.pdf

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The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Committee announced today the swimmers who qualified for the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. The championships will be held March 20-23 at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin, Texas. The University of Texas at Austin will serve as host. A total of 322 participants (281 swimmers and 41 divers) will compete in the championships. Swimmers qualified for the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events in which they entered. Divers will be determined by performances at the Zone Diving Meets March 11-16. The diving qualifiers will be announced on March 17.

Swimming Qualifiers: https://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/default ... _sheet.pdf

Relay Qualifiers: https://i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/default ... 3-5-19.pdf

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Nice showing so far for Marietta in the D3 men's basketball tournament. They play in the third round today against Oswego State after winning their first two tournament games!

Baldwin Wallace, Capital and Wittenberg also won their first round games but fell in the second round.

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After 2 days at the skiing national championships, Dartmouth (259 points) holds a slight team edge over second place Utah (252.5 points), followed by Vermont (245 points). These results are after the first two days of competition, which included the Men's 10K Freestyle, Women's 5K Freestyle, Men's Giant Slalom and Women's Giant Slalom.

Friday's competition will be in the Women's 15K Classic and the Men's 20K Classic.