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The NCAA News -- October 25, 1999

Division II Football

Field: Sixteen teams will compete for the championship. There will be four teams selected in each of four regions (Northeast, Midwest, South and West).

Dates and sites: First round (November 20), quarterfinal (November 27) and semifinal (December 4) games will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The championship will be December 11 at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama.

Information/results: The fax-on-demand telephone number is 770/563-1133 (pin code 1915); request numbers are 1351 for dates/sites and 5090 for championship-game results. First-round and quarterfinal results will appear in the December 6 issue of The NCAA News, semifinal results will appear in the December 20 issue, and championship-game results will be published in the January 3 issue.

Championship notes: Northwest Missouri State capped the first 15-0 season by a Division II team with a 24-6 triumph over Carson-Newman in the 1998 championship. Quarterback Chris Greisen tossed a tournament-record 13 touchdown passes in the Bearcats' four playoff games. Carson-Newman, which has lost to the eventual national champion in the playoffs for six straight years, is once again among the top teams in the division. The Eagles, who rallied from a 17-point deficit in a win over Catawba, are 5-0 and ranked first in the NCAA poll through games of October 3. The Midwest region has three of the poll's top seven teams -- No. 2 Northern Colorado, No. 5 Nebraska-Omaha and the defending champion in the seventh position.