INDIANAPOLIS-- The NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 teams and 16 first- and second-round sites for the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship. Per NCAA policy, the top 16 seeds are guaranteed to host if a bid was submitted and criteria are met, and matchups between conference opponents were avoided in the first two rounds of the championship.
First- and second-round competition takes place May 13-14 or May 14-15 and features four teams playing in a single-elimination format. The winner of each site advances to the Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the 16 teams will compete for the national championship May 20-24. The event will be hosted by the University of Tulsa.
“The 2015-16 men’s tennis season has been extremely competitive. This bracket is a great reflection of that competitiveness and the hard work each student-athlete and team has been putting in throughout the season. I look forward to watching as teams advance to the final site in Tulsa.” said Bobby Bayliss, the chair of the Division I men’s tennis committee and the director of tennis facilities at the University of Notre Dame.
The matches shall be regulation dual matches. Three doubles matches consisting of six-game sets will be played for one team point, followed by six singles matches, each valued at one team point; played the best of three sets. No-ad scoring will be used and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) will be played at six-games-all. The team winning four or more team points advances in the championship bracket.
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During the championships, all matches will be stopped after the doubles point is decided. All remaining individual matches will be stopped once a team winner (four points won) has been determined. The score will only reflect completed matches.
Thirty-one conferences receive automatic qualification into the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship. Each conference and its automatic qualifier are listed below.
American Athletic – South Florida
Atlantic Coast – Wake Forest
Atlantic Sun –North Florida
Atlantic 10 – George Washington
Big East – St. John's (New York)
Big Sky – Weber State
Big South – Coastal Carolina
Big Ten – Ohio State
Big 12 – TCU
Big West – UC Santa Barbara
Colonial – College of Charleston
Conference USA – Rice
Horizon – Valparaiso
Ivy – Columbia
MAAC – Monmouth
Mid-American – Western Michigan
Mid-Eastern – South Carolina State
Missouri Valley – Wichita State
Mountain West – UNLV
Northeast – Bryant
Ohio Valley – Tennessee Tech
Pacific-12- UCLA
Patriot – Army West Point
SEC – Florida
Southern – East Tennessee State
Southland –Lamar
SWAC – Jackson State
Summit – Denver
Sun Belt – UT Arlington
West Coast – San Diego
WAC – New Mexico State
