NCAA RELEASE
INTERACTIVE BRACKET

INDIANAPOLIS – 2024 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Men’s Basketball Champion No. 24 University of Saint Joseph (Conn.) was one of 64 teams selected into the 2024 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship tournament on Monday afternoon during the NCAA.com Selection Show.

The Blue Jays will take on travel to No. 4 Randolph-Macon to play Geneva in the first round of the tournament on Friday, March 1 at 5 p.m.

USJ was one of 42 teams to gain entry into this year’s bracket as the beneficiary of its league’s automatic qualifier. The Blue Jays went undefeated in GNAC play with a 14-0 conference record (24-4 overall) to earn the No. 1 seed in the conference championship tournament. They defeated No. 8 seed Rivier, No. 5 seed Norwich, and No. 3 seed Saint Joseph’s (Maine) en route to the title. Saint Joseph is now nationally-ranked, sliding into the D3hoops.com Top-25 in the No. 24 spot in the most recent poll.

Geneva also earned its championship berth as an automatic qualifier as it captured the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) title. The Golden Tornadoes went 18-2 in PAC play (24-3 overall) to earn the No. 1 seed in the PAC Tournament, defeating No. 2 seed Saint Vincent in the league final.

Randolph-Macon, which is currently ranked No. 4 in the D3hoops.com Top-25, is one of 16 hosts for the first and second rounds of the tournament. The Yellow Jackets’ fate was left up to the NCAA DIII Men’s Basketball Committee as they fell in the semifinals of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championship Tournament. They were the No. 1 seed after going 15-1 in ODAC play (23-4 overall), but had their championship hopes halted by Washington and Lee. However, their season was extended as they earned one of the 22 at-large bids into this year’s bracket.

The hosts will take on Baruch, another automatic qualifier out of City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC), in their first round game at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Baruch comes into the national tournament with a 19-8 overall (13-1 CUNYAC) record, earning the league AQ with a 73-71 win over Lehman on Friday (Feb. 23).

Following this weekend’s first- and second-round games, the winners will advance to one of four campus sites, which will host third-round and quarterfinal games on Friday-Saturday, March 8-9.

Those winners will then move onto the finals site at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind. for the semifinals and championship game. The semifinals will take place on Thursday, March 14 with the title game scheduled for Saturday, March 16.

2024 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship Schedule

First Round – Friday, March 1
(Hosted by Randolph-Macon – Ashland, Va.)

Geneva vs. No. 24 University of Saint Joseph (Conn.), 5 p.m.
Baruch at No. 4 Randolph-Macon, 7:30 p.m.

Second Round – Saturday, March 2
(Hosted by Randolph-Macon – Ashland, Va.)

First Round Winners, 7:30 p.m.

ABOUT THE GREAT NORTHEAST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) is an NCAA Division III association made up of 16 member institutions and over 4000 student-athletes across the New England region. Founded in 1995, the GNAC annually sponsors and administers 22 championships, while balancing academic integrity, athletic opportunity and community involvement in an effort to enhance the student-athlete experience.

Stay up to date with all the latest news from the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC)!
'Follow' us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram, and 'Like' us on Facebook!

-#TheGNAC-