Division II Selection Show Sunday: Kutztown and Shippensburg Lead the Race for Kansas City
Division I and Division III have their brackets. Division II gets theirs on Sunday.
The selection show is Sunday 15 November at 8:00pm ET, 6:00am PKT on Monday, streamed on NCAA.com. Eight teams will be picked: five from the Atlantic region and three from the East, with conference champions getting automatic berths and the rest decided by the NCAA Power Index. Once the eight are in, they’re re-seeded one to eight, no matter which region they came from.
The two names at the top of the rankings are no surprise. Kutztown are No. 1 in the NPI, Shippensburg No. 2, and they’ve been first and second for weeks. They’re the two best teams in the division, and they’ve spent the whole season taking turns beating each other. Shippensburg ended Kutztown’s 35-game regular-season winning streak on 24 October, winning 1-0 on a penalty corner from Elaina Fragassi with ten seconds left in the first quarter. Kutztown had beaten Shippensburg 1-0 back in September. Eight of their last eleven meetings have been decided by a single goal.
Shippensburg are the defending champions. They won the 2025 title, beating Kutztown 3-1 in the semifinals on the way. Kutztown, for their part, hadn’t lost a regular-season game since October 2024 before that October defeat, and they still held the No. 1 ranking in the coaches’ poll afterwards.
Behind those two, the Atlantic region sends its PSAC and South Atlantic Conference champions plus three at-large teams, and the East sends its East Coast Conference and Northeast-10 champions plus one at-large. East Stroudsburg, West Chester, Bloomsburg and Assumption have all been in the NPI mix this season.
The first round is Saturday 21 November, four quarterfinals at campus sites. The semifinals are Thursday 3 December and the final is Saturday 5 December, both in Kansas City as part of the Division II Fall Championships Festival.
For our money, the show itself is a formality for the top two. Kutztown and Shippensburg are in, and the only question is who gets the No. 1 seed and who has to travel. The real drama is in the last two or three spots, where one loss in a conference final can end a season. That’s what Sunday night is for.
