The 2024 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship was announced at the Feb. 26 selection show. The first round begins on Friday, March 1st and continues through the National Championship Game on March 16th at the Capital Center Performance Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Transylvania defeated Christopher Newport 57-52 to cap a perfect season at 33-0, winning the first national championship in program history and becoming the defending national champion.
2024 DIII Women's Basketball Tournament Qualification
Here are the complete standings for the DIII Girls Basketball Championship.
Click or tap here for a closer look at brackets
2024 DIII Women's Basketball Tournament Schedule
The 2024 DIII Women's Basketball Championship schedule is as follows (subject to change):
- selection show
- First Round Matches — March 1 (all ET):
- Widener 57Springfield 50
- new york university 78Millsaps 51
- Dartmouth, Massachusetts 78New Jersey City 69
- Messiah 58Shenandoah 57
- catholic 71Pennsylvania State University 55
- Baldwin Wallace 59Trinity(CT)54
- ohio wesleyan 64Emory 54
- St. John Fisher 55Gettysburg 46
- ohio northern 62Marymount (Virginia) 38
- Johns Hopkins 75Marietta 66
- hope 65Ripon 54
- Trine 61Gustav Adolphus 58
- Illinois Wesleyan 75Concordia Moorhead 62
- Trinity(TX)75, Mary Hardin Baylor 71
- Bates 66Brooklyn 51
- Wisconsin Stout 71wash 61
- boudin 69Western New England 48
- millikin 91Willamette 83
- de sales 53Southern Virginia 42
- smith 61Maine Maritime 46
- washington & lee 68Vassar 61
- SUNY New Paltz 70Penn State Harrisburg 52
- transylvania 61Chatham 40
- University of Rhode Island 56St. Joseph's (Maine) 37
- scranton 60Framingham State 39
- Christopher Newport 104, Mount Saint Vincent College 52
- depot 74Bellaire 52
- Wisconsin-Oshkosh 57Webster 42
- Wisconsin – Whitewater 86Minnesota-Morris 47
- wartburg 72Wisconsin Lutheran 65
- puget sound 74Carroll (Wisconsin) 65
- Hardin Simmons 65Occidental 53
- 2nd round match
- Divisional round
- At the campus site from March 8th to 9th
- Semi-final
- March 14th at Capital Center Performance Arena in Columbus, Ohio
- championship game
- March 16th at Capital Center Performance Arena in Columbus, Ohio
The tournament will consist of four regions with 16 teams in each region. Regional games will be hosted by the tournament's top 16 national seeds. Forty-two teams will qualify by earning an automatic bid as conference champions, 21 teams will earn an at-large bid, and one team will be selected from the group of conference champions who do not meet the automatic selection requirements.
championship history
The DIII girls basketball tournament, which began in 1982, has been held every year except for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lewis from the University of Washington in St. Paul has won four times, while Hope has won three times.
Here is the complete history of the DIII Girls Basketball Championship Game.
| Year | Champion (record) | coach | Score | runner-up | site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Transylvania (33-0) | juli fawkes | 57-52 | christopher newport | texas, dallas |
| 2022 | Hope (32-1) | brian morehouse | 71-58 | Whitewater, Wisconsin | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 2021 | Canceled due to Covid-19 | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | Canceled due to Covid-19 | — | — | — | — |
| 2019 | Thomas More (32-0) | jeff hans | 81-67 | boudin | Salem, Virginia |
| 2018 | Amherst (33-0) | GP Gromacchi | 65-45 | boudin | Rochester, Minnesota. |
| 2017 | Amherst (33-0) | GP Gromacchi | 52-29 | tufts | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 2016 | Thomas More (33-0) | jeff hans | 63-51 | tufts | Indianapolis |
| 2015 | Thomas More (33-0)* | jeff hans | 83-63 | george fox | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 2014 | FDU-Florum (33-0) | mark mitchell | 80-72 | whitman | Stevens Point, Wisconsin |
| 2013 | Depot (35-0) | chris huffman | 69-51 | Whitewater, Wisconsin | holland, michigan |
| year 2012 | Illinois Wesleyan (28-5) | mia smith | 57-48 | george fox | holland, michigan |
| 2011 | Amherst (32-1) | GP Gromacchi | 64-55 | washington-st louis | bloomington illinois |
| 2010 | Washington-St. Louis (29-2) | Nancy Fahey | 65-59 | hope | bloomington illinois |
| 2009 | George Fox (32-0) | Scott Luc | 60-53 | washington-st louis | holland, michigan |
| 2008 | Howard Payne (33-0) | Chris Kielsmeyer | 68-54 | savior | holland, michigan |
| 2007 | Depot (31-3) | chris huffman | 55-52 | washington-st louis | Springfield, Massachusetts |
| 2006 | Hope (33-1) | brian morehouse | 69-56 | southern maine | Springfield, Massachusetts |
| Year 2005 | Millikin (29-2) | Lori Kerans | 70-50 | Randolph Macon | norfolk, virginia |
| 2004 | Wilmington (Ohio) (27-6) | jerry sieve | 59-53 | boudin | norfolk, virginia |
| 2003 | Trinity (Texas) (28-5) | Becky Guyer | 60-58 | eastern connecticut | Terre Haute, Indiana |
| 2002 | wisconsin stevens point | Shirley Egner | 67-65 | st lawrence | Terre Haute, Indiana |
| 2001 | Washington-St. Louis (28-2) | Nancy Fahey | 67-45 | savior | danbury, connecticut |
| the year of 2000 | Washington-St. Louis (30-0) | Nancy Fahey | 79-33 | southern maine | danbury, connecticut |
| 1999 | Washington-St. Louis (30-0) | Nancy Fahey | 74-65 | saint benedict | danbury, connecticut |
| 1998 | Washington-St. Louis (28-2) | Nancy Fahey | 77-69 | southern maine | Gorham, Maine |
| 1997 | New York University (29-1) | Janice Quinn | 72-70 | Eau Claire, Wisconsin | new york city |
| 1996 | Wisconsin vs. Oshkosh (31-0) | Kathy Bennett | 66-50 | mount union | Oshkosh, Wisconsin |
| 1995 | Capital (33-0) | Dixie Jeffers | 59-55 | Oshkosh, Wisconsin | columbus ohio |
| 1994 | Capital (30-1) | Dixie Jeffers | 82-63 | washington-st louis | Eau Claire, Wisconsin |
| 1993 | Central (Iowa) (24-5) | Gary Boink | 71-63 | capital | Pella, Iowa |
| 1992 | Alma (24-3) | Charlie Goffnett | 79-75 | Moravian | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. |
| 1991 | St. Thomas (Minnesota) (29-2) | Ted Riverso | 73-55 | masking gum | St. Paul, Minnesota. |
| 1990 | Hope (24-2) | Sue Wise | 65-63 | saint john fisher | holland, michigan |
| 1989 | Elizabethtown (29-2) | Yvonne Kaufman | 66-65 | California State University Stanislaus | Danville, Kentucky |
| 1988 | Concordia-Moorhead (29-2) | duane syverson | 65-57 | saint john fisher | Moorhead, Minnesota. |
| 1987 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point (27-2) | linda wonder | 81-74 | concordia moorhead | Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| 1986 | Salem State (29-1) | Tim Shea | 89-85 | bishop | Salem, Massachusetts |
| 1985 | Scranton (31-1) | mike strong | 68-59 | new rochelle | depere, wisconsin |
| 1984 | Rust (26-5) | AJ Stovall | 51-49 | elizabethtown | Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| 1983 | North Central (Illinois) (26-6) | Wayne Morgan | 83-71 | elizabethtown | Worcester, Massachusetts |
| 1982 | Elizabethtown (26-1) | Yvonne Kaufman | 67-66 (Otto) | UNC Greensboro | Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania |
*Thomas More's 2015 national title was stripped
