The tournament again featured sixty-four teams, with teams placed into one of four sixteen-team regionals. The first four rounds were played on campus sites while the national and semifinal championship rounds were held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana from March 14–16, 2024.
In their first–ever Division III tournament, Trine won the national championship, beating Hampden–Sydney 69–61.
A total of sixty-four bids were available for the tournament: 42 automatic bids—awarded to the champions of the forty-two NCAA-recognized Division III conference tournaments—and 22 at-large bids.
The following 42 teams are automatic qualifiers for the 2024 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid (except for the UAA, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).[2]
The following 22 teams were awarded qualification for the tournament field by the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee.[2] The committee evaluated teams on the basis of their win–loss percentage, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, results against common opponents, and results against teams included in the NCAA's final regional rankings.[3]
The R64, R32, S16, E8, F4, CG, and NC columns indicate how many teams from each conference were in the round of 64 (first round), round of 32 (second round), Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four, championship game, and national champion, respectively.
