NCAA_Division_II_Women's_Basketball_Championship

NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament

NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament

Annual tournament

The NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament (officially styled as "Championship" instead of "Tournament") is an annual tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II women's college basketball national champion. Basketball was one of 12 women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981–82 school year, as the NCAA and Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) sought for sole governance of women's collegiate athletics. The AIAW continued to conduct its established championships; however, after a year of dual women's championships at the national level, the AIAW disbanded.

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The 2020 Elite Eight was due to be held at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, AL before the NCAA called off the tournament due to the COVID-19 outbreak.[1]

The field was reduced to 48 in 2021 and returned to the normal 64 in 2022.

Minnesota State are the defending national champions.

Qualification

A total of 64 bids are normally available for each tournament: 23 automatic bids (awarded to the champion of each Division II all-sports conference) and 41 at-large bids. Due to COVID-19 issues, the 2020 tournament was canceled, and the 2021 tournament was reduced to 48 teams when nine all-sports conferences chose not to compete in women's basketball in 2020–21.

The bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), each of which contains either two or three of the 23 Division II conferences that sponsor women's basketball. Each region normally consists of two or three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and five or six at-large bids (awarded regardless of conference affiliation).

Conference tournaments

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  1. Also includes D-II independent Salem
  2. Also includes D-II independents UPR Bayamón, UPR Mayagüez, and UPR Río Piedras

Results

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  1. Only the final game was held in Dallas. The remainder of the Elite Eight was held at St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Champions

Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly Pomona
NDSU
NDSU
Delta State
Delta State
Lubbock Christian
Lubbock Christian
UND
UND
Ashland
Ashland
Central Missouri
Central Missouri
California
California
NKU
NKU
Minnesota State
Minnesota State
Bentley
Bentley
Clayton State
Clayton State
Emporia State
Emporia State
Glenville State
Glenville State
Grand Valley State
Grand Valley State
HU
HU
New Haven
New Haven
Shaw
Shaw
SDSU
SDSU
SCSU
SCSU
VUU
VUU
Washburn
Washburn
Schools that have won the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Championship
5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Active programs

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Former programs

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See also

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    As of 2023–24, this school is a current member of NCAA Division I.

References

  1. [1]
    "Championship Central". National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
  2. [2]
    "Central Missouri stuns Ashland to win NCAA Div. II Championship". Argus Leader. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
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