The 2024 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college basketball in the United States, the culmination of the 2023âÂÂ24 NCAA Division III men's basketball season.
The tournament again featured sixty-four teams, with teams placed into one of four sixteen-team regionals. The first four rounds were played on campus sites while the national and semifinal championship rounds were held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana from March 14âÂÂ16, 2024.
In their firstâÂÂever Division III tournament, Trine won the national championship, beating HampdenâÂÂSydney 69âÂÂ61.
Five teams made their first appearances in the NCAA Division III tournament: Geneva, Mary Baldwin, Roger Williams, SUNY New Paltz, and Trine.
First and second round games were played at campus sites on March 1 and March 2.
On the basis of team strength and geography, these locations were chosen to host first and second round games in the 2024 tournament:
Third and fourth round games were played at campus sites on March 8 and March 9.
At the conclusion of the second round, the NCAA announced the following locations would host third and fourth round games.
The National Semifinals and Championship were played on March 14 and March 16.
Fort Wayne hosted the Final Four for the fourth time, having previously hosted in 2019, 2022, and 2023. Fort Wayne was also scheduled to host the Final Four in 2020 and 2021, before those editions of the tournament were canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
A total of sixty-four bids were available for the tournament: 42 automatic bidsâÂÂawarded to the champions of the forty-two NCAA-recognized Division III conference tournamentsâÂÂand 22 at-large bids.
There was a net decrease of two automatic bids this year, due to the automatic bids for the Colonial States Athletic Conference (whose members were folded into the United East Conference) and the New England Collegiate Conference (whose remaining full members all departed after the last season) having been eliminated. Starting next year, the Collegiate Conference of the South will get an automatic bid.
The following 42 teams are automatic qualifiers for the 2024 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).
The following 22 teams were awarded qualification for the tournament field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee. The committee evaluated teams on the basis of their winâÂÂloss percentage, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, results against common opponents, and results against teams included in the NCAA's final regional rankings.