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NCAA | March 18, 2024

Division II women's basketball committee announces 2024 championship field

DII women's basketball: 2024 selection show
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams that will compete in the 2024 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.

BRACKET: See the full championship field 

Seven eight-team regionals will be played at on-campus sites March 15, 16 and 18. The Atlantic region will have two four-team sites as a result of a split regional with men's basketball. Games will be played March 15, 16 and 19, with the championship game played at the site of highest remaining seed. 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 2024 NCAA Division II Women's Elite Eight will be held at the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri, March 25, 27 and 29. Missouri Western State University and the St. Joseph Sports Commission will serve as hosts.

NCAA Digital has partnered with Hudl to utilize the Hudl platform to stream all eligible games from the 2024 Division II Women's Basketball Championship, including the regionals. All games will be webcast on www.krikya18.com, the Hudl platform and an OTT app – "NCAA Championships Pass."

Fans will have three viewing options: $9.95 per contest, $29.95 for all Division II Women's Basketball Championship games excluding the semifinals and championship game, and $49.95 for all Division II Women's and Men's Basketball Championship games, excluding the semifinals and championship games. The semifinals and finals of the Division II Women's Basketball Championship will be carried on CBS Sports Network.

Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows:

Conference Automatic Qualifier
California Collegiate Athletic Association Cal State San Marcos
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Thomas Jefferson University
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Fayetteville State
Conference Carolinas UNC Pembroke
East Coast Conference Daemen
Great American Conference Henderson State
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Grand Valley State
Great Lakes Valley Conference Lewis
Great Midwest Athletic Conference Ashland
Great Northwest Athletic Conference Western Washington
Gulf South Conference Valdosta State
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 Minnesota State Mankato
Pacific West Conference Azusa Pacific
Peach Belt Conference Georgia Southwestern
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Gannon
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Regis (Colorado)
South Atlantic Conference Wingate
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Miles
Sunshine State Conference Eckerd

Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows:

Adams State
Anderson (South Carolina)
Assumption
Augusta University
Cal Poly Pomona
California (Pennsylvania)
Cal State LA
Carson-Newman
Catawba
Chico State
Colorado Mesa
Colorado School of Mines
Drury
Embry-Riddle (Florida)
Ferris State
Fort Hays State
Franklin Pierce
Harding
Indiana (Pennsylvania)
Kentucky Wesleyan
Lee
Lenoir-Rhyne
Lock Haven
Lubbock Christian
Mercy
Missouri Western
Montana State Billings
Northern Michigan
Northwest Missouri State
Nova Southeastern University
Point Loma
Saint Rose
Southern Nazarene
Southern New Hampshire
Tampa
Texas Permian Basin
The University of Texas at Tyler
Trevecca Nazarene
Union University
West Chester
West Virginia State

For more information about the championship, log on to krikya18.com.

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