Division III NCAA Tournament Baseball Bracket

BABSON PARK, Mass.—After capturing its second New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) championship in the last three seasons on Sunday, the Babson College baseball team learned it will travel to Gorham, Maine, for the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament on Monday afternoon. 

Led by 24th-year head coach Matt Noone, the Beavers went 4-0 in the NEWMAC Tournament and defeated No. 4/4 Salve Regina for the second time in as many days in the Sunday's final, 21-2. Babson (26-15) has won five in a row and 10 of its last 11 games, and will be making its fifth NCAA Tournament appearance since 2017 and the seventh overall in program history. 

The Green and White will play regional host University of Southern Maine (30-10) in Friday's tournament opener at 2:30 p.m. The Huskies captured their first Little East Conference championship since 2021 with an 11-5 victory over Keene State College on Sunday, and will be making their 27th NCAA Tournament appearance. 

The other two teams in the Gorham Regional are No. 5/5 Rowan University (32-5), which claimed its first New Jersey Athletic Conference title since 2021, and RIT (24-13), which won its first Liberty League crown since 2017, will meet at 11 a.m. on Friday. The Profs are back in the NCAA Tournament for the ninth consecutive season and 32nd time in program history, while the Tigers are making just their second Division III Championship appearance in first in a decade. 

The double-elimination regional will continue with three games on Saturday (12, 2:30 and 7 p.m.) and the regional final and if necessary games set for Sunday beginning at 12 p.m.