The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) has three of its teams make the NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament which starts this Friday.
UW-River Falls won the WIAC’s automatic bid by winning the conference tournament on Sunday. UW-Stevens Point and UW-Whitewater also received bids into the field on Monday. First round games are played on Friday night.
UW-River Falls (20-7) will host Edgewood (22-6). UW-Whitewater (23-4 will host Northwestern (Minn.) (17-10) and UW-Stevens Point (20-7) will meet Illinois Wesleyan (19-7) in Holland, Michigan.
Midwest Conference champion Carroll (16-9) will also face Transylvania (23-4) in Lexington, Kentucky.
Four WIAC women’s teams, Stevens Point (23-4), Eau Claire (20-6), River Falls (21-6) and Whitewater (22-6) are all in the field.