NCAA Division III Tournament bracket
Galloway, N.J. – Stockton University will begin its NCAA Tournament journey at home as the Ospreys were selected to host first and second round games on March 4-5. On Friday, Stockton will host Wilson College (Pa.) at 4:30 p.m. in the back half of a first-round split session that also features Johns Hopkins versus Yeshiva at 1 p.m.
The winners will meet in an NCAA second-round game at Stockton on Saturday, March 5. If Yeshiva wins on Friday, then Saturday's game will be at 9 p.m. If Johns Hopkins wins on Friday, then Saturday's game will be at 4:30 p.m. Tickets for each individual game at $15 for adults and $10 for students, seniors and children.
Three of the four teams in the Stockton pod are ranked in the latest
D3hoops.com poll. Johns Hopkins is ranked 10th, Yeshiva is ranked 19th and Stockton is ranked 23rd.
Stockton is making its 17th NCAA Tournament appearance overall and both playing in the NCAA Tournament and hosting for the first time since 2016. The Ospreys earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by defeating Rowan University 95-91 in the NJAC championship game on Saturday.
Stockton is 24-4 with an eight-game winning streak. The Ospreys also have a 12-1 record in home games this season. They are led by a trio of NJAC all-conference players, including two major award winners, plus NJAC Coach of the Year
Scott Bittner.
NJAC Player of the Year
DJ Campbell (Vineland/Vineland) leads the conference in scoring at 19.5 points per game and ranks in the top of the NJAC in six other statistical categories. Campbell also was an NJAC First Team selection.
Kyion Flanders (Wildwood/Wildwood) joined Campbell on the NJAC First Team and also was voted NJAC Defensive Player of the Year. Flanders provides outstanding play at both ends of the floor for the Ospreys, filling the stat sheet with averages of 11.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.3 steals per game.
Kadian Dawkins (Eastampton/Rancocas Valley) was an NJAC Honorable Mention selection who leads the conference in assist/turnover ratio (2.0) and ranks fourth in assists (4.4 apg). He has been an efficient scorer, averaging 11.8 points per game on the strength of shooting 51.5 percent from the field including 43.3 percent (26-60) from three-point range.
Wilson College (18-7) earned an automatic bid as the Colonial States Athletic Conference champion. Johns Hopkins (22-3) won the Centennial Conference championship and Yeshiva (25-3) took the Skyline Conference title for their automatic bids. The Maccabees had a 50-game winning streak, the second-longest in Division III history, prior to a loss to Illinois Wesleyan on December 30.