INDIANAPOLIS –The NCAA announced the 64-team field for its Division II men’s basketball tournament on Sunday night. Among the teams selected was the Southwest Minnesota State University mens basketball team, which earned the No. 7 seed in the central region.

In its first-round matchup, the Mustangs will take on No. 2 Northwest Missouri State. The Mustangs and Bearcats met in St. Joseph, Mo. back on Nov. 11 with the Mustangs pulling out a 63-56 win. Senior Cliff Cofield led the Mustangs with 20 points, five assists, five rebounds and a pair of steals in the win while Bennett Stirtz scored 29 points with six 3-pointers for the Bearcats.

Northwest Missouri State has been on a tear as of late. Not only did the Bearcats win both the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association’s regular-season and tournament titles, they also enter the tournament on a 16-game win streak at 27-4.

SMSU, meanwhile, fell in the semifinals of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament and enters the tournament at 29-12.

NSIC champion Minnesota State earned the top seed in the central region and the right to host the tournament. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played at the Taylor Center on Saturday and Sunday and the regional championship will take place on Tuesday.

SMSU’s first-round matchup against NWMSU will tip off at 2:30 p.m. The winner of that game will take on either No. 3 Minnesota Duluth or No. 6 Fort Hays State in the regional semifinals.

Top-seeded Minnesota State will take on Arkansas Tech at 5 p.m. while No. 4 MSU Moorhead and No. 5 Pittsburg State is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

SMSU has put together a 9-14 record in the NCAA tournament over the course of the program’s existence. They last advanced past the regional in 2009.