INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2025 championship.
Forty-three conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the 2025 championship. The other 21 berths were reserved for at-large selections designated by the NCAA Power Index (NPI).
Sixteen first/second-round sites will be conducted March 7-8. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 14-15. Winners of the four sectional sites will advance to the national semifinals/final site on March 20 and 22. All games, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semifinals/final will be conducted at Cregger Center in Salem, Virginia, hosted by City of Salem and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (43):
| Conference | automatic qualifier team |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | La Roche (22-5) |
| American Rivers Conference | Wartburg (25-2) |
| American Southwest Conference | East Texas Baptist (23-4) |
| Atlantic East Conference | Immaculata (22-3) |
| Centennial Conference | Gettysburg (25-2) |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Brooklyn (17-11) |
| Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference | Christopher Newport (26-1) |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Illinois Wesleyan (26-1) |
| Collegiate Conference of the South | Piedmont (20-7) |
| Conference of New England | Endicott (22-5) |
| Empire 8 | SUNY Geneseo (22-6) |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Saint Joseph (Connecticut) (19-9) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Transylvania (22-5) |
| Landmark Conference | Scranton (26-1) |
| Liberty League | Vassar (21-6) |
| Little East Conference | Massachusetts Dartmouth (23-4) |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Bridgewater State (19-6) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Calvin (18-10) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Messiah (25-2) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Stevens (19-8) |
| Midwest Conference | Ripon (23-4) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Gustavus Adolphus (26-1) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Bowdoin (27-0) |
| New England Women’s & Men’s Athletic Conference | Smith (26-2) |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Montclair State (23-4) |
| North Atlantic Conference | SUNY Cobleskill (24-4) |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | DePauw (20-6) |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Wisconsin Lutheran (21-7) |
| Northwest Conference | Whitman (26-1) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Baldwin Wallace (26-1) |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Randolph-Macon (27-1) |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference | Washington & Jefferson (23-4) |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Principia (17-11) |
| Skyline Conference | Mount Saint Mary (New York) (17-10) |
| Southern Athletic Association | Centre (21-7) |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Cal Lutheran (22-6) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran (23-4) |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | Cortland (24-3) |
| United East Conference | Gallaudet (18-10) |
| University Athletic Association | New York University (25-0) |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Superior (17-10) |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Southern Virginia (26-2) |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Whitewater (22-6) |
At-Large berths (21)
Amherst (19-7) Bates (16-9)
Bethel (Minnesota) (22-5) Carnegie Mellon (20-5)
Catholic (24-4) Colorado College (23-3)
Elizabethtown (22-4) Johns Hopkins (22-4)
McMurry (21-5) Merchant Marine (24-2)
Ohio Wesleyan (23-3) SUNY Brockport (24-4)
Trine (24-3) Trinity (Connecticut) (18-8)
Tufts (15-10) Washington and Lee (24-4)
Western New England (24-3) Wisconsin-La Crosse (16-11)
Wisconsin-Oshkosh (23-4) Wisconsin-Stevens Point (18-8)
Wisconsin-Stout (19-7)
