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2023 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament

The 2023 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States. The tournament featured 64 teams.


Teams
,;Elite 8/Final 4
St. Joseph Civic Arena,St. Joseph, Missouri
Championship
American Airlines Center,Dallas, Texas
Ashland (3rd title)
Minnesota-Duluth (1st title game)
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Kari Pickens (1st title)
Annie Roshak (Ashland)
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The 2023 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States. The tournament featured 64 teams.

During the 2022–23 academic year, the NCAA organized many events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX, federal legislation outlawing sex discrimination in higher education. As part of this celebration, the NCAA scheduled the women's basketball championship games of all three of its divisions at the site of the 2023 Division I Final Four. Accordingly, the championship game was held on April 1, 2023, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. The national quarterfinals and semifinals were played at the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri.

This scheduling also created an unusually long break in the tournament. Normally, the national championship game is played one or two days after the semifinals, but this year's final took place 10 days after the semifinals.

First, second, and third-round games (the latter of which doubles as a regional championship) were held at campus sites from March 10–13, 2023. The top-seeded team in each regional served as host.

The national quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals were held at predetermined sites: the former two rounds were played at the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri and the latter at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

The national championship was played on April 1, 2023, in Dallas, concurrently with the 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament Final Four.

A total of 64 bids were available for the tournament: Twenty-three automatic bids (awarded to the champions of each Division II conference) and 41 at-large bids.

The bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), each of which contains either two or three of the twenty-three Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball. Each region consists of two or three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and either five or six at-large bids, awarded regardless of conference affiliation.

Automatic bids
Atlantic (3)CIAAElizabeth City State20–102nd2007
MECGlenville State29-216th2022
PSACCalifornia (PA)21-1019th2022
Central (3)GACSouthern Nazarene27-42nd2021
MIAAMissouri Southern27-65th2022
NSICMinnesota Duluth27-315th2022
East (3)CACCDominican (NY)21-103rd2021
ECCDaemen20-44th2022
NE-10Bentley21-937th2022
Midwest (3)GLIACGrand Valley State29-217th2022
GLVCDrury30-120th2022
G-MACAshland31-013th2022
South (3)GSCUnion (TN)26-38th2022
SIACTuskegee26-37th2021
SSCTampa30-115th2022
South Central (2)LSCAngelo State25-614th2020
RMACRegis25-67th2017
Southeast (3)CCUNC Pembroke22-91stNever
PBCGeorgia Southwestern State24-62nd2022
SACLenoir–Rhyne24-75th2014
West (3)CCAACal State San Marcos23-53rd2022
GNACWestern Washington24-319th2022
PacWestAzusa Pacific25-47th2022
At-large bids
Atlantic (5)Charleston (WV)MEC23-811th2022
GannonPSAC29-414th2022
ShippensburgPSAC24-610th2017
West ChesterPSAC22-88th2018
West Virginia StateMEC22-62nd2004
Central (5)Augustana (SD)NSIC25-515th2018
Central MissouriMIAA25-425th2021
Minnesota State-MankatoNSIC25-48th2022
Nebraska–KearneyMIAA28-415th2022
Pittsburg StateMIAA22-712th2019
East (5)AssumptionNE-1024-58th2017
JeffersonCACC26-414th2022
Le MoyneNE-1021-65th2022
Southern New HampshireNE-1021-74th2022
St. Thomas AquinasECC21-83rd2019
Midwest (5)Kentucky WesleyanG-MAC23-65th2021
LewisGLVC21-1016th2020
MaloneG-MAC21-92nd2017
Michigan TechGLIAC25-621st2021
Trevecca NazareneG-MAC21-91stNever
South (5)EckerdSSC24-57th2022
LeeGSC25-67th2022
LynnSSC23-83rd2013
Nova SoutheasternSSC21-87th2019
Valdosta StateGSC22-615th2022
South Central (6)Black Hills StateRMAC22-74th2021
Colorado MinesRMAC24-65th2022
Lubbock ChristianLSC22-107th2022
Texas Woman'sLSC26-54th2022
UT TylerLSC24-71stNever
West Texas A&MLSC21-1028th2022
Southeast (5)CatawbaSAC25-58th2022
Clayton StatePBC18-1115th2020
North GeorgiaPBC19-107th2022
South Carolina-AikenPBC18-117th2013
WingateSAC22-720th2022
West (5)Cal State Dominguez HillsCCAA28-28th2015
Cal State LACCAA20-93rd2012
Cal Poly PomonaCCAA18-1028th2020
Central WashingtonGNAC21-85th2022
Montana State BillingsGNAC24-715th2018
  • Site: Glenville, West Virginia (Glenville State)
  • – Denotes overtime period
  • Site: Duluth, Minnesota (Minnesota-Duluth)
  • – Denotes overtime period
  • Site: Worcester, Massachusetts (Assumption)
  • – Denotes overtime period
  • Site: Ashland, Ohio (Ashland)
  • – Denotes overtime period
  • Site: Tampa, Florida (Tampa)
  • – Denotes overtime period
  • Site: San Angelo, Texas (Angelo State)
  • – Denotes overtime period
  • Site: Salisbury, North Carolina (Catawba)
  • – Denotes overtime period
  • Site: Carson, California (Cal State Dominguez Hills)
  • – Denotes overtime period
  • Site: Elite 8 and Final 4-St. Joseph Civic Arena, St. Joseph, Missouri/National Championship Game-American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas

  • Annie Roshak, Ashland

  • Zoe Miller, Ashland

  • Hayley Smith, Ashland

  • Hallie Heidemann, Ashland

  • Brooke Olson, Minnesota-Duluth

  • 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament

  • 2023 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament

  • 2023 NAIA women's basketball tournament

  • 2023 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament

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