The Butler duo of Mikheil Khmiadashvili and Mason Dragos has been selected to participate in the doubles competition as part of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships later this month. This is believed to be the first Butler singles or doubles selection to the championships.

The NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Subcommittee selected 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams to compete in the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships May 24-29 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia, hosted by the University of Georgia. The tournament will begin after the conclusion of the team championships which run from May 18-23.

Khmiadashvili and Dragos are currently ranked No. 60 nationally in the most recent ITA rankings. The duo is 12-3 on the season, including 8-2 at the No. 1 position this spring.

All matches will be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) at six-games-all will be used for all matches. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played in lieu of a third set.

The tournament draw will be announced at a later date.

As a team, Butler will open the 2017 NCAA Tournament on Friday, May 12 at No. 3 overall seed Ohio State. The Bulldogs earned an automatic team bid by winning the 2017 BIG EAST Tournament. The team berth is the program's first since 2007.
 
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, eight must be completed, with four of the eight matches completed in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
 
DOUBLES

Automatic qualifications (12), listed alphabetically by conference:
 

PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	SCHOOL	CONFERENCE
Yates Johnson	Hunter Johnson	SMU	American Athletic
Christian Seraphim	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest	Atlantic Coast
Jack Findel-Hawkins	Lasse Muscheites	North Florida	Atlantic Sun
Mikheil Khmiadashvili	Mason Dragos	Butler	Big East
Herkko Pollanen	Mikael Torpegaard	Ohio State	Big Ten
Arjun Kadhe	Julian Cash	Oklahoma State	Big 12
Simon Freund	Morgan Mays	UC Santa Barbara	Big West
Tommy Bennett	David Warren	Rice	Conference USA
Charlie Emhardt	Jeffrey Schorsch	Valparaiso	Horizon League
Alexander Day	Luke Gamble	Princeton	Ivy
Martin Redlicki	Evan Zhu	UCLA	Pacific-12
Jan Zielinski	Robert Loeb	Georgia	SEC

At-large selections (20), listed alphabetically by institution:
 

PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	SCHOOL
Mazen Osama	Spencer Richey	Alabama
Jose Salazar	Mike Redlicki	Arkansas
Maxime Hinnisdaels	Conner Huertas	Auburn
Juan Benitez	Will Little	Baylor
Filip Bergevi	Florian Lakat	California
Spencer Furman	Nick Stachowiak	Duke
Johannes Ingildsen	Alfredo Perez	Florida
Parker Wynn	Sean Donohue	Louisville
Justin Butsch	Jordan Daigle	LSU
Hugo Di Feo	Martin Joyce	Ohio State
Fabian Fallert	Grey Hamilton	Ole Miss
Trevor Foshey	Niclas Braun	Mississippi State
William Blumberg	Robert Kelly	North Carolina
Spencer Papa	Andrew Harris	Oklahoma
Yancy Dennis	Harrison O'Keefe	South Carolina
Brandon Holt	Riley Smith	Southern California
Reese Stalder	Jerry Lopez	TCU
Arthur Rinderknech	AJ Catanzariti	Texas A&M
Bjorn Thomson	Connor Curry	Texas Tech
Jai Corbett	Henrik Korsgaard	Virginia Tech

ALTERNATES*:
 

NUMBER	PLAYER NAME 1	PLAYER NAME 2	SCHOOL
1	Jathan Malik	Connor Johnston	Michigan
2	Gergely Madarasz	Ricky Medinilla	Purdue
3	Christopher Eubanks	Carlos Benito	Georgia Tech
4	Beck Pennington	Enzo Wallart	Kentucky

*If the withdrawing student-athlete was selected by automatic qualification, the next eligible singles player or doubles team from that conference will be considered before substituting from the alternate list.

Seeds 1-4:
 

SEED	PLAYER NAME 1	PLAYER NAME 2	SCHOOL
1	Jan Zielinski	Robert Loeb	Georgia
2	Martin Redlicki	Evan Zhu	UCLA
3	Johannes Ingildsen	Alfredo Perez	Florida
4	Christian Seraphim	Skander Mansouri	Wake Forest

Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution:
 

PLAYER NAME 1	PLAYER NAME 2	SCHOOL
Jose Salazar	Mike Redlicki	Arkansas
Filip Bergevi	Florian Lakat	California
Arjun Kadhe	Julian Cash	Oklahoma State
Arthur Rinderknech	AJ Catanzariti	Texas A&M