NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament


The NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament is an annual tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II women's college basketball national champion. Basketball was one of 12 women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981–82 school year, as the NCAA and Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women sought for sole governance of women's collegiate athletics. The AIAW continued to conduct its established championships; however, after a year of dual women's championships at the national level, the AIAW disbanded.
The 2020 Elite Eight was due to be held at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, AL before the NCAA called off the tournament due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Lubbock Christian are the defending national champions.

Qualification

As of 2020, a total of 64 bids are available for each tournament: twenty-three automatic bids and 41 at-large bids.
The sixty-four bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions, each of which contains either two or three of the twenty-three Division II conferences that sponsor women's basketball. Each region consists of two or three automatic qualifiers and five or six at-large bids.

Conference tournaments

Statistics

Championships by school

SchoolTitlesYears
Cal Poly Pomona51982, 1985, 1986, 2001, 2002
North Dakota State51991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
Delta State31989, 1990, 1992
North Dakota31997, 1998, 1999
Central Missouri21984, 2018
California 22004, 2015
Northern Kentucky22000, 2008
Ashland22013, 2017
Lubbock Christian22016, 2019
Bentley12014
Clayton State12011
Emporia State12010
Grand Valley State12006
Hampton11988
Minnesota State12009
New Haven11988
Shaw12012
South Dakota State12003
Southern Connecticut State12007
Virginia Union11983
Washburn12005