St. Bonifacius, Minn. - The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 60 teams that will compete in the 2024 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship and the Polars are headed to Whitewater, Wisconsin.
Of the 16 regional sites played Friday-Sunday, May 17-19, four teams will compete at fourteen regional sites and two teams will compete at two regional sites. The four-team regionals will use a double-elimination format and the two-team regionals will play a best-of-five series. Thirty-nine conference champions qualified automatically, Crown included.
The Polars will be in a regional bracket with UW-Whitewater, Centre College, and California Lutheran University. Winners of the sixteen regional tournaments will qualify for eight, best-of-three series at the super regionals, Friday-Saturday, May 24-25. The eight super regional winners will then qualify for the pool play double-elimination championship at Classic Auto Group Park in Eastlake, Ohio, Friday-Thursday, May 31-June 6, 2024.
All games for the regional tournament will have a live broadcast and live stats. Tickets are $10 for Adults and $8 for Senior Citizens/Students. Games will be played at Prucha Field at Jim Miller Stadium (910 W. Schwager Dr. Whitewater, WI 53190). Crown will face off with the Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks at 11am on Friday, May 17th in the first contest of the regional tournament. The Warhawks come into the tournament ranked #8 in the nation by the D3baseball.com/NCBWA poll and #1 in the region as decided by the Division III Baseball Committee.
| NCAA Regional Ranking |
(#1) UW-Whitewater |
(#2) Centre College |
(#3) California Lutheran |
(#4) Crown College |
| Overall Record |
35-8 |
34-11 |
28-14 |
21-20 |
| Conference Record |
19-5 WIAC |
15-6 SAA |
15-9 SCIAC |
14-7 UMAC |
| Selection |
Automatic Bid |
Automatic Bid |
At-Large Bid |
Automatic Bid |
For all the tournament information visit the regional tournament page
HERE.