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The 2016 NSCAA Silver Cup was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. The annual tournament was played on campus sites for the first three rounds, with the Final Four and championship game being held at MUSC Health Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. The 24-team tournament began on Thursday, November 17 and ended on Thursday, March 31. The proposed tournament is the first iteration.

Automatic qualifiers
The following nine teams earned automatic berths into the 2016 NSCAA field by virtue of having won their respective conference's regular season championship but failed to win their conference tournaments and did not receive an at-large NCAA bid.

Seeds
The first eight teams left out of the NCAA tournament were the top seeds and earned a bye to the second round. The remaining teams played in the first round.

In addition, the following 10 schools earned an at-large berth into the Silver Cup: Connecticut, Omaha, High Point, Seattle, Air Force, Temple, William & Mary, Georgia State, Stony Brook and Penn State.