Mar 01, 2026
Here's who's in! The list of 21 at-large teams goes as far down as St. Mary's (Minn.), ranked 40th overall in NPI. The next two teams which just missed the cut: Carnegie Mellon (41st) and Susquehanna (42nd).
The source for these numbers is D3 Datacast, but you can also find them at The D3 Stat Lab. Confirmed against the official NCAA selections on ncaa.org.
- Final NPI numbers from D3 Datacast: Men | Women
- Hoopsville: 6 p.m. ET, Sunday
- Selection Shows on Monday: scheduled for 1 p.m. ET (men) and 2:30 ET (women)
The bracket, released tomorrow, will include these 64 teams.
| Rank | Team | Conf | NPI | How? | At-large rank |
Overall seed |
| 1 | New York University | UAA | 69.897 | AQ | - | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Oshkosh | WIAC | 69.042 | At-Lg | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Washington and Lee | ODAC | 68.198 | AQ | - | 3 |
| 4 | Scranton | LAND | 67.26 | AQ | - | 4 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins | CC | 66.651 | At-Lg | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Denison | NCAC | 65.559 | At-Lg | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | Hope | MIAA | 65.143 | AQ | - | 7 |
| 8 | Bowdoin | NESCAC | 63.763 | At-Lg | 4 | 8 |
| 9 | John Carroll | NCAC | 63.713 | At-Lg | 5 | 9 |
| 10 | UW-Whitewater | WIAC | 63.624 | At-Lg | 6 | 10 |
| 11 | UW-La Crosse | WIAC | 63.476 | AQ | - | 11 |
| 12 | Concordia-Moorhead | MIAC | 63.338 | At-Lg | 7 | 12 |
| 13 | Bethel | MIAC | 63.184 | AQ | - | 13 |
| 14 | Bates | NESCAC | 62.683 | AQ | - | 14 |
| 15 | Washington U. | UAA | 62.678 | At-Lg | 8 | 15 |
| 16 | Ohio Wesleyan | NCAC | 62.664 | At-Lg | 9 | 16 |
| 17 | Illinois Wesleyan | CCIW | 62.66 | AQ | - | 17 |
| 18 | Smith | NEWMAC | 62.418 | AQ | - | 18 |
| 19 | UW-Platteville | WIAC | 62.267 | At-Lg | 10 | 19 |
| 20 | Carroll | CCIW | 61.973 | At-Lg | 11 | 20 |
| 21 | Chicago | UAA | 61.958 | At-Lg | 12 | 21 |
| 22 | SUNY New Paltz | SUNYAC | 61.599 | AQ | - | 22 |
| 23 | Ripon | MWC | 61.489 | AQ | - | 23 |
| 24 | Baldwin Wallace | OAC | 61.457 | At-Lg | 13 | 24 |
| 25 | Trine | MIAA | 61.104 | At-Lg | 14 | 25 |
| 26 | UW-River Falls | WIAC | 60.829 | At-Lg | 15 | 26 |
| 27 | Gettysburg | CC | 60.804 | AQ | - | 27 |
| 28 | Wisconsin Lutheran | NACC | 60.506 | AQ | - | 28 |
| 29 | DePauw | NCAC | 60.355 | AQ | - | 29 |
| 30 | Southern Maine | LEC | 60.291 | AQ | - | 30 |
| 31 | Otterbein | OAC | 60.277 | AQ | - | 31 |
| 32 | Messiah | MACC | 60.097 | AQ | - | 32 |
| 33 | Cortland | SUNYAC | 60.069 | At-Lg | 16 | 33 |
| 34 | Randolph-Macon | ODAC | 60.062 | At-Lg | 17 | 34 |
| 35 | Christopher Newport | C2C | 59.988 | AQ | - | 35 |
| 36 | Gustavus Adolphus | MIAC | 59.981 | At-Lg | 18 | 36 |
| 37 | Shenandoah | ODAC | 59.819 | At-Lg | 19 | 37 |
| 38 | William Paterson | NJAC | 59.538 | At-Lg | 20 | 38 |
| 39 | St. Mary's (Minn.) | MIAC | 59.148 | At-Lg | 21 | 39 |
| 42 | Hardin-Simmons | ASC | 58.77 | AQ | - | 40 |
| 44 | Transylvania | HCAC | 58.337 | AQ | - | 41 |
| 46 | Union | LL | 58.231 | AQ | - | 42 |
| 50 | Washington & Jefferson | PAC | 58.046 | AQ | - | 43 |
| 52 | JWU Providence | CNE | 57.893 | AQ | - | 44 |
| 60 | DeSales | MACF | 57.206 | AQ | - | 45 |
| 63 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | SCIAC | 57.122 | AQ | - | 46 |
| 64 | Coe | ARC | 57.094 | AQ | - | 47 |
| 65 | Immaculata | AEC | 57.037 | AQ | - | 48 |
| 70 | Merchant Marine | SKY | 56.627 | AQ | - | 49 |
| 72 | Whitman | NWC | 56.48 | AQ | - | 50 |
| 86 | Millsaps | SAA | 55.519 | AQ | - | 51 |
| 88 | SUNY Geneseo | E8 | 55.464 | AQ | - | 52 |
| 94 | LaGrange | CCS | 55.23 | AQ | - | 53 |
| 97 | Southern Virginia | USAC | 55.018 | AQ | - | 54 |
| 100 | Penn State-Behrend | AMCC | 54.915 | AQ | - | 55 |
| 101 | Emmanuel | GNAC | 54.907 | AQ | - | 56 |
| 106 | St. Mary's (Md.) | UEC | 54.614 | AQ | - | 57 |
| 117 | TCNJ | NJAC | 54.001 | AQ | - | 58 |
| 131 | Hunter | CUNYAC | 53.402 | AQ | - | 59 |
| 147 | Maine-Farmington | NAC | 52.702 | AQ | - | 60 |
| 172 | Austin | SCAC | 51.367 | AQ | - | 61 |
| 175 | Webster | SLIAC | 51.256 | AQ | - | 62 |
| 213 | Framingham State | MASCAC | 49.803 | AQ | - | 63 |
| 217 | UW-Superior | UMAC | 49.664 | AQ | - | 64 |