GORHAM —  The University of Southern Maine baseball team, champion of the Little East Conference, has received the top seed in the NCAA Division III New England regional tournament that begins Wednesday at Whitehouse Field in Harwich, Mass.

USM was one of the 56 teams to make the field announced Monday morning by the NCAA Division III Baseball Committee for the NCAA Division III baseball championship. Winners of the eight regionals will advance to the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wis., May 24-28.

Southern Maine is making its 20th overall appearance in the NCAA regional tournament. The Huskies advanced to their second straight NCAA regional after winning their second straight, and fourth overall, Little East Conference championship. USM has won the regional tournament six times, the last time coming in 2001, and captured the national championship in 1991 and 1997.

The Huskies (37-7) will play in Wednesday’s Game 2 (1 p.m.) against Daniel Webster College, 28-10 overall and champions of the New England Collegiate Conference. Fourth-seeded Western New England University, 31-11 overall, will play fifth-seeded M.I.T., 27-11 overall, in the opening game of the eight-team, double-elimination tournament (9:30 a.m.). Western New England and M.I.T. were among the 14 teams to receive an at-large berth into the tournament.

In the other half of the bracket, third-seeded Endicott College, 32-12 overall and champions of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC), will play sixth-seeded Saint Joseph’s College (Me.), 30-12 overall and champions of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC), in Game 3 (4:30 p.m.), and second-seeded Wheaton College, 30-10 overall and champions of the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) plays seventh-seeded Salem State University, 25-13 overall and champions of the Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference, in Game 4 (8 p.m.).