2026 Playoffs

[cubs]

With Conference Tournaments kicking off and automatic bids being earned, seems like a good time to get this thread started.

For teams needing an at-large berth, an NPI number inside the Top 40 will likely be needed if it's like last year.

[Patrick Coleman]

Jim Dixon and I sat down with the Division III baseball national committee chair to talk about a wide range of topics related to the playoffs and World Series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEyptctISRw

We discuss the use of the NCAA Power Index (NPI) and what tweaks might be coming for the formula in the future, attempts being made to bring more fans out to the World Series in the final year it is being hosted in Eastlake, Ohio, the work being done to keep conferences teams from having to play each other early in the bracket, the importance of filing to host the early rounds of the NCAA postseason, the challenges of the World Series format, where the World Series is going next, could it ever be played on turf, and why the event hasn't found a long-term home since leaving Appleton, Wisconsin, coming up on a decade ago.

[Ralph Turner]

Concordia TX earns the Pool A for the SCAC. I do not anticipate a "Pool C" (at-large) bid for the conference.

[Patrick Coleman]

Concordia TX earns the Pool A for the SCAC. I do not anticipate a "Pool C" (at-large) bid for the conference.

The term "Pool C" is no longer used.

[cubs]

Concordia TX earns the Pool A for the SCAC. I do not anticipate a "Pool C" (at-large) bid for the conference.

I would agree with the the SCAC not being in line for any "at-large' bids with Texas Lutheran having the best NPI number and that still being #102 after the completion of yesterday's games.