USA Rugby has confirmed the brackets for the 2019 Collegiate Sevens Championships, which will be held May 24-26 in Tucson, AZ.

The entire Collegiate Sevens Championships will be shown LIVE on FloRugby

Women D2

Three at-large teams were added to five conference champions, with San Jose State and Grand Valley State being two of them. There is one more team to be added.

Women D2 lineup: Babson, Bloomsburg, Bryant, Claremont Colleges, Fresno State, Grand Valley State, San Jose State

Women D1

Five teams have won qualifier tournaments, and three more have been added. Of those, two (Princeton and Northeastern) won major tournaments that were not qualifiers, and a third, Colorado, came a close 2nd in the Rocky Mountain.

Women D1 lineup: Air Force, Iowa State, Sam Houston State, Virginia Tech, Washington State, Colorado, Northeastern, Princeton

Women D1 Elite

Separated out from Women D1, this is a bracket for varsity or almost-varsity programs. This entire bracket was at-large, based on performances in NIRA 7s, other high-profile tournaments, or last year's championships.  

Women D1 Elite lineup: Central Washington, Dartmouth, Davenport, Harvard, Life, Lindenwood, Penn State

Men D2

One tournament was not officially a qualifier, but should have been, and that was the Rocky Mountain championships. Montana State won that event and will join eight other conference champions. 

At-large teams are: UNC-Charlotte (2nd in the South and 2018 champion), UW-Whitewater (2nd in Upper Midwest, and 2018 runner-up), and IUPUI.

Men D2 lineup: Bloomsburg, East Carolina, Hartford, Iowa Central CC, NC State, Norwich, Principia, William Paterson, IUPUI, Montana State, UNC-Charlotte, Wisconsin-Whitewater

Men D1AA

As with the women, the D1 brackets have been split to better reflect the reality that there are strong club programs (D1AA) and varsity to almost-varsity programs with greater resources (D1A).

A few complications here. West Chester was named the MARC winner but actually, that was due to a math snafu by the organizers. In the end WCU retains the series trophy, but St. Joseph's is named co-winner, and St. Joe's takes the seed to nationals.

Dartmouth won the Ivy League but will not attend. Kentucky won the SCRC but has ceded its place at nationals to runner-up Kennesaw State. 

That still leaves us with seven more teams that won conference qualifiers.

The at-large teams are of interest, too. Lindenwood-Belleville won a tournament in the Big Ten series, and that was taken as proof of the Lynx's abilities. Nebraska was a close team in the Heart of America. Western Washington actually finished 3rd in the NCRC, but the Vikings lost 26-24 in the semis to the eventual winners, so it seemed to make more sense to award an at-large spot to WWU than a team that lost a final by much more.

Men D1 lineup: Florida International, Iowa State, Kennesaw State, Mary Washington, Oregon State, Sam Houston State, Saint Joseph's, Stanford, Western Michigan, Lindenwood-Belleville, Nebraska, Western Washington

Men D1A

This list has not been released, and probably won't be until next week. What was a 12-team tournament is expected to be a 16-team event now. Arkansas won the Red River, Ohio State won the Big Ten, Air Force won the Rocky Mountain, AIC won Saratoga, Cal won the PAC, and Arizona is hosting. So that's six.

Among the at-larges you might expect: Lindenwood, Grand Canyon (4th in 2018), Utah (won consolation bracket in 2018), Colorado State (Rocky Mountain runner-up), and Central Washington (won 2017 West Coast 7s and Silicon Valley 7s). It's possible we'll see a few California- and Utah-based teams, also, and since