Wednesday, March 4, 2015

GNAC Championships (March 5-7 at Billings, MT): Thursday - #6 Northwest Nazarene (13-15) vs. #3 Central Washington (17-8), 5:15 p.m.; #5 Western Washington (18-10) vs. #4 Alaska Anchorage(16-12), 7:30 p.m.  Friday - #2 Seattle Pacific (21-7) vs. 3/6 winner, 5:15 p.m.; #1 Western Oregon (23-5) vs. 4/5 winner, 7:30 p.m.  Saturday – Championship game at 7:30 p.m.  (Note: All times are Mountain Standard Time).

PORTLAND, Ore. – Western Oregon and Seattle Paciific are among the 10 teams in the third and final NCAA Division II West Region ranking of the 2015 season.

The Wolves, who will take a 23-5 record and the No. 1 seed into the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Championships which begin  Thursday in Billings, Mont., are ranked seventh and Seattle Pacific, which is looking for its 11th consecutive NCAA regional appearance, is ranked 10th.

PacWest teams hold the top four slots - Azusa Pacific (1st), California Baptist (2nd), Dixie State (3rd) and BYU-Hawaii (4th) - and are followed by two CCAA teams - Chico State (5th) and Cal Poly Pomona (6th).

Following this week's GNAC, PacWest and CCAA tournaments, the NCAA Regional selection committee (RAC) will pick the five teams that will join the three conference champions in next week's regional, which will begin Friday, March 13.

The NCAA will announce the eight qualifiers and the host for the regional Sunday with a web cast on ncaa.com beginning at 7:30 p.m. Pacific time.  The women's field and site will start the hour-long webcast with its announcement at 7 p.m.

MEN– 1. Azusa Pacific (22-4); 2. California Baptist (22-5); 3. Dixie State (20-6); 4. BYU-Hawaii (21-5); 5. Chico State (19-6); 6. Cal Poly Pomona (18-6); 7. Western Oregon (20-5); 8. Point Loma (19-7); 9. Humboldt State (17-7); 10. Seattle Pacific (18-7).  (Note: Record listed is versus Division II opponents only).