2024 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament

2024 NCAA Division III
women's basketball tournament
Teams	64
Finals site	Capital University Performance Arena; Columbus, Ohio
Champions	NYU Violets (2nd title)
Runner-up	Smith Pioneers (1st title game)
Semifinalists	Transylvania Pioneers (2nd Final Four); Wartburg Knights (3rd Final Four);
Winning coach	Meg Barber (1st title)
MOP	Natalie Bruns (NYU)
NCAA Division III women's tournaments
«2023	2025»

The 2024 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's college basketball among its member programs in the United States, culminating the 2023–24 season. It again featured a field of 64 teams.

The first four rounds were played on campus sites, and the national semifinals and finals were held at the Capital University Performance Arena at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio from March 14–16, 2024.

NYU defeated Smith in the final, 51–41, to win the Violets' second national title.

Tournament schedule and venues

Whitewater

Lewiston

Providence

New York

Columbus

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2023 NCAA Division III Women's Tournament sites

Regionals

The first and second rounds took place on campus sites from March 1–2, 2024. Teams were sent to one of sixteen host campus sites, which all corresponded to the home arena of one of the four teams in each grouping of four teams.

The third and fourth rounds (the sectional semifinals and finals), also took place on campus sites from March 8–19, 2024. Teams were sent to the home arena of one of the four remaining teams in their sectional bracket.

Final Four

The national semifinals and finals were held at a predetermined site, the Capital University Performance Arena at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. The national semifinals were played on March 14, and the final was played on March 16.

Qualifying

A total of sixty-four bids were available for the tournament: Forty-two (42) automatic bids—awarded to the champions of the forty-two NCAA Division III conferences guaranteed a spot in the tournament and twenty (20) at-large bids to the highest rated programs that failed to win their respective leagues. The number of automatic bids decreased by two this year following the dissolution of the New England Collegiate Conference as an all-sports conference and the merger of the United East Conference and the Colonial States Athletic Conference (the UEC retained the auto bid).^[1]

While this is the second season for the Collegiate Conference of the South, its conference tournament champion will not be eligible for an automatic bid until 2025.^[2]

Tournament bracket

Top left sectional

First round March 1, 2024		Second round March 2, 2024		Sectional semifinals March 8, 2024 New York, NY		Sectional finals March 9, 2024 New York, NY

NYU	78

Millsaps	51
		NYU	93
Allentown, PA
		DeSales	59
DeSales	53

Southern Virginia	42
				NYU	73

				Hardin–Simmons	55
Mary Hardin-Baylor	71

Trinity (TX)	75
		Trinity (TX)	62
Abilene, TX
		Hardin–Simmons	84
Hardin–Simmons	65

Occidental	53
						NYU	68

						Scranton	46
Scranton	60

Framingham State	39
		Scranton	60
Scranton, PA
		Ohio Northern	54
Marymount (VA)	38

Ohio Northern	62
				Scranton	65

				Johns Hopkins	53
Johns Hopkins	75

Marietta	66
		Johns Hopkins	77
Newport News, VA
		Christopher Newport	75
Christopher Newport	104

Mount Saint Vincent	52

Bottom left sectional

First round March 1, 2024		Second round March 2, 2024		Sectional semifinals March 8, 2024 Whitewater, WI		Sectional finals March 9, 2024 Whitewater, WI

Wisconsin–Whitewater	86

Minnesota–Morris	47
		Wisconsin–Whitewater	89
Whitewater, WI
		Millikin	65
Millikin	91

Willamette	83
				Wisconsin–Whitewater	72

				Hope	61
Hope	65

Ripon	54
		Hope	70
Greencastle, IN
		DePauw	55
DePauw	74

Berea	52
						Wisconsin–Whitewater	48

						Transylvania	62
Carroll (WI)	65

Puget Sound	74
		Puget Sound	40
Waukesha, WI
		Wisconsin–Stout	61
Washington St. Louis	61

Wisconsin–Stout	71
				Wisconsin–Stout	58

				Transylvania	63
Emory	54

Ohio Wesleyan	64
		Ohio Wesleyan	55
Lexington, KY
		Transylvania	70
Transylvania	61

Chatham	40

Top right sectional

First round March 1, 2024		Second round March 2, 2024		Sectional semifinals March 8, 2024 Brunswick, ME		Sectional finals March 9, 2024 Brunswick, ME

Bowdoin	69

Western New England	48
		Bowdoin	67
Brunswick, ME
		UMass Dartmouth	59
UMass Dartmouth	78

New Jersey City	69
				Bowdoin	78

				Baldwin Wallace	48
Trinity (CT)	54

Baldwin Wallace	59
		Baldwin Wallace	65
New Paltz, NY
		New Paltz	42
New Paltz	70

Penn State Harrisburg	52
						Bowdoin	47

						Smith	52
Wisconsin–Oshkosh	57

Webster	42
		Wisconsin–Oshkosh	74
Oshkosh, WI
		Trine	48
Gustavus Adolphus	58

Trine	61
				Wisconsin–Oshkosh	59

				Smith	61
Shenandoah	57

Messiah	58
		Messiah	61
Northampton, MA
		Smith	69
Smith	61

Maine Maritime	46

Bottom right sectional

First round March 1, 2024		Second round March 2, 2024		Sectional semifinals March 8, 2024 Providence, RI		Sectional finals March 9, 2024 Providence, RI

Bates	66

Brooklyn	51
		Bates	79
Lewiston, ME
		Widener	66
Springfield	50

Widener	57
				Bates	53

				Wartburg	54
Illinois Wesleyan	75

Concordia Moorhead	62
		Illinois Wesleyan	59
Waverly, IA
		Wartburg	62
Wartburg	72

Wisconsin Lutheran	65
						Wartburg	68

						Washington and Lee	58
Washington and Lee	68

Vassar	61
		Washington and Lee	80
Lexington, VA
		Catholic	70
Catholic	71

Penn State Behrend	55
				Washington and Lee	61

				Rhode Island College	55
Gettysburg	46

St. John Fisher	55
		St. John Fisher	43
Providence, RI
		Rhode Island College	66
Rhode Island College	56

St. Joseph's (ME)	37

Final Four

National semifinals March 14 Columbus, OH		National championship March 16 Columbus, OH

NYU	57

Transylvania	42
		NYU	51

		Smith	41
Smith	61

Wartburg	54

References

^ "CSAC AND UNITED EAST CONFERENCE - INTENT TO MERGE". csacsports.com. Colonial States Athletic Conference. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
^ Coleman, Pat; McHugh, Dave (16 February 2022). "USA South Athletic Conference to split in two". D3Sports. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[1] "CSAC AND UNITED EAST CONFERENCE - INTENT TO MERGE". csacsports.com. Colonial States Athletic Conference. Retrieved 18 February 2023.

[2] Coleman, Pat; McHugh, Dave (16 February 2022). "USA South Athletic Conference to split in two". D3Sports. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

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2024 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament

Tournament schedule and venues

Regionals

Final Four

Qualifying

Tournament bracket

Top left sectional

Bottom left sectional

Top right sectional

Bottom right sectional

Final Four

See also

References