INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. --- A pair of member schools will carry the ODAC banner on the national stage following the announcement of the Division III Men's Soccer Championship field on Monday morning via selection show on NCAA.com. ODAC champion University of Lynchburg is joined by Washington and Lee University as an at-large selection to mark the seventh straight season with multiple league teams earning berths.

The Division III men's soccer bracket includes 64 teams with 42 qualifying automatically as conference champions like Lynchburg. The remaining 22 entrants were determined by ranking in NCAA Power Index (NPI). Washington and Lee slotted 24th in the final listing, which translated to the 17th team selected to the tournament via NPI positioning. Lynchburg, for reference, owns the No. 12 NPI rating.

All teams in a given sport -- 401 in D-III men's soccer -- earn a NPI rating. Those NPI ratings are ranked sequentially and form a transparent method of selecting teams at-large to Division III brackets, replacing the former process of the sport championship committees selecting teams at-large based on predetermined selection criteria. Once the 42 automatic qualifiers are known, the next 22 best NPI-rated teams formed the list of at-large selected programs to fill out the bracket.

Lynchburg (15-1-4), positioned in the lower-right quadrant of the bracket, was selected to host a pod of four teams that will compete in first and second round action on Shellenberger Field. The Hornets will open with Covenant College (Ga.) on Saturday, November 14. The Scots (7-8-2) won the Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS) championship. The other first round game in the Hill City features Kenyon College and Ohio Northern University. The Owls (15-4-0) are an at-large pick after finishing as the runner-up in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC). The Polar Bears (13-4-5) won the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) title.

Washington and Lee (12-3-3) is positioned in the upper-right portion of the bracket. The Generals will be traveling to Glassboro, N.J., for early round competition at Rowan University. WLU opens with Colorado College. The Tigers (15-2-2) won their first Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) championship. The other first round game will feature host Rowan and Marymount University (Va.). The Profs (13-1-4) hoisted the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) trophy, while the Saints (13-7-1) donned the Atlantic East Conference (AEC) crown.

The 16 winners from the opening-round pods will compete in four more four-team units in the sectional rounds on Saturday and Sunday, November 21-22. The four teams that advance from that weekend take a week off before traveling to Columbus, Ohio, for the national semifinal games on Thursday, December 3, and ultimately the national championship game on Saturday, December 5. All games -- including the women's semifinals and championship -- will be played at Historic Crew Stadium.