KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Milligan University's women's bowling squad was announced as an invitee to the NAIA National Championships on March 19-21 in Lansing, Mich. on Monday afternoon via the NAIA Men's and Women's Bowling Selection Show. Six conference champions and six at-large berths were handed out, with the Buffaloes earning the second at-large selection of the field to take the No. 3 seed.

Milligan's squad will be making their fourth straight appearance in the tournament, and earned an at-large bid to the event after their runner-up finish at the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) Championships.

The championship this season is in Lansing, Mich. at Royal Scot Lanes and will feature a brand new tournament structure that begins with two six-team brackets, made up of seeded squads. They will each take part in a double-elimination, mega-match format on March 19-20, and the winners of those matches will move on to a title-deciding mega-match on March 21 at 2:30 p.m.

Click HERE to view the release at NAIA.org.

Listed below is the full field for the event:

Seed		Institution		Conference
?  1		Mount Mercy (Iowa)		Heart of America Athletic Conference
2		Pikeville (Ky.)		Mid-South Conference
3		Milligan (Tenn.)		Southern States Athletic Conference
?  4		SCAD Savannah (Ga.)		Southern States Athletic Conference
?  5		Spirng Arbor (Mich.)		Crossroads League
6		Lawrence Tech (Mich.)		Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
7		Ottawa (Kan.)		Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
8		William Penn (Iowa)		Heart of America Athletic Conference
9		Calumet-St. Joseph (Ind.)
? 10		Morningside (Iowa)		Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
? 11		Cumberland (Tenn.)		Mid-South Conference
? 12		St. Francis (Ill.)		Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference

? Denotes Automatic Qualifier