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NCAA | February 27, 2024

2024 NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Championship field announced

DIII women's basketball: 2024 selection show

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2024 championship.

Forty-two conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the 2024 championship. There was one berth reserved for Pool B and the final 21 berths were reserved for Pool C, which includes institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.

BRACKET: View the 2024 DIII women's basketball bracket

Sixteen first/second-round sites will be conducted March 1-2. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 8-9. Winners of the four sectional sites will advance to the national semifinals/final site on March 14 and 16. All games, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semifinals/final will be conducted at Capital Center Performance Arena in Columbus, Ohio, hosted by Capital University.

Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (42):

Conference Team
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference

Penn State–Behrend (19-7)

American Rivers Conference Wartburg (25-2)
American Southwest Conference

Hardin-Simmons (24-3)

Atlantic East Conference

Marymount (Virginia) (22-5)

Centennial Conference

Gettysburg (24-3)

City University of New York Athletic Conference Brooklyn (18-8)
Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference

Christopher Newport (26-1)

College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

Carroll (Wisconsin) (23-4)

Commonwealth Coast Conference

Western New England (22-5)

Empire 8

St. John Fisher (23-4)

Great Northeast Athletic Conference

St. Joseph’s (Maine) (21-7)

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

Transylvania (27-0)

Landmark Conference Scranton (25-2)
Liberty League Vassar (25-2)
Little East Conference

Rhode Island College (27-0)

Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference

Framingham State (24-2)

Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Trine (21-7)
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Widener (23-4)
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom DeSales (25-2)
Midwest Conference Ripon (19-8)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Gustavus Adolphus (25-2)

New England Small College Athletic Conference Bowdoin (25-2)
New England Women’s & Men’s Athletic Conference Smith (25-3)
New Jersey Athletic Conference

New Jersey City (19-8)

North Atlantic Conference

Maine Maritime (22-4)

North Coast Athletic Conference DePauw (21-7)
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

Wisconsin Lutheran (23-4)

Northwest Conference

Puget Sound (19-8)

Ohio Athletic Conference

Ohio Northern (18-9)

Old Dominion Athletic Conference

Washington and Lee (26-2)

Presidents’ Athletic Conference Chatham (24-3)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Webster (27-0)
Skyline Conference

University of Mount Saint Vincent (22-6)

Southern Athletic Association Millsaps (24-4)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Occidental (20-5)

Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

Trinity (Texas) (22-5)

State University of New York Athletic Conference

SUNY New Paltz (23-4)

United East Conference

Penn State Harrisburg (17-11)

University Athletic Association

New York University (25-0)

Upper Midwest Athletic Conference

Minnesota-Morris (17-10)

USA South Athletic Conference

Southern Virginia (22-6)

Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Wisconsin-Stout (21-7)

Pool B Berths (1)

  • Berea (24-3)

Pool C Berths (21):

  • Baldwin Wallace (20-6)
  • Bates (22-5)
  • Catholic (25-2)
  • Concordia-Moorhead (20-5)
  • Emory (19-6)
  • Hope (24-3)
  • Illinois Wesleyan (22-5)
  • Johns Hopkins (24-3)
  • Marietta (21-6)
  • Mary Hardin-Baylor (21-6)
  • Massachusetts Dartmouth (23-4)
  • Messiah (22-5)
  • Millikin (22-5)
  • Ohio Wesleyan (22-6)
  • Shenandoah (21-7)
  • Springfield (22-5)
  • Trinity (Connecticut) (19-7)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (17-8)
  • Willamette (17-9)
  • Wisconsin-Oshkosh (22-5)
  • Wisconsin-Whitewater (22-4)

The selection announcement and the full bracket are posted at krikya18.com.

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