INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams that will compete in the 2025 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship.
Twenty-three conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 41 teams were selected at large by the committee.
Eight, eight-team regionals will be played at on-campus sites March 14, 15 and 17. The eight regional champions advancing to the Women’s Elite Eight will be seeded by the Women’s Basketball Committee after completion of the regionals. The 2025 NCAA Division II Women’s Elite Eight will be held at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh, March 24, 26 and 28. Pennsylvania Western University, Clarion, and SportsPITTSBURGH will serve as hosts.
Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows:
- California Collegiate Athletic Association: Cal State Dominguez Hills
- Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference: Holy Family
- Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Fayetteville State
- Conference Carolinas: Belmont Abbey
- East Coast Conference: Daemen
- Great American Conference: Harding
- Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Grand Valley State
- Great Lakes Valley Conference: Quincy
- Great Midwest Athletic Conference: Ashland
- Great Northwest Athletic Conference: Alaska Anchorage
- Gulf South Conference: Union (Tennessee)
- Lone Star Conference: Texas Woman’s University
- Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association: Pittsburg State
- Mountain East Conference: Fairmont State
- Northeast-10 Conference: Bentley
- Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference: Concordia-St. Paul
- Pacific West Conference: Point Loma
- Peach Belt Conference: North Georgia
- Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference: Kutztown
- Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Colorado-Colorado Springs
- South Atlantic Conference: Anderson (South Carolina)
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Miles
- Sunshine State Conference: Embry-Riddle (Florida)
Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows:
- Adams State
- Alabama Huntsville
- Assumption
- Azusa Pacific
- Cal Poly Pomona
- Carson-Newman
- Central Washington
- Chico State
- Coker
- Colorado Mesa
- Columbus State
- Eastern New Mexico
- Edinboro
- Ferris State
- Fort Hays State
- Francis Marion
- Gannon
- Hillsdale
- Indiana (Pennsylvania)
- Lee
- Lewis
- Lubbock Christian
- Minnesota State Mankato
- Missouri Western
- Montana State Billings
- New Haven
- Northern Michigan
- Nova Southeastern
- Saint Anselm
- Seton Hill
- Southern Connecticut State
- Southern Nazarene
- Southwest Minnesota State
- University of Tampa
- Thomas Jefferson University
- UNC Pembroke
- The University of Texas at Tyler
- Virginia State
- Wayne State (Michigan)
- West Florida
- West Texas A&M
For more information about the championship, log on to ncaa.com. For more information about each region, click on the links below:
