Indianapolis, IN - The NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Committee has selected the 42 teams that will compete in the 2011 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Championships.

The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second and third rounds played at regional sites, May 13-15 or May 12-14.  Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 24-26 at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont, Calif. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 11. 

The championship provides for a 42-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 29 conference champions, which form "Pool A."  Seven teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B).  The remaining six teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C).  The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.

The 2010 squad notched the first NCAA Regional Tournament appearance in school history and fell to Skidmore, 5-1 in the first round. This year, the Hawks earned an automatic bid by winning the CUNYAC Championship 5-2 over Baruch College and will take on the Engineers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first round on Friday, May 13 at 10:00 am in Middlebury, Vermont.