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).

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.

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

See also

• 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
• 2024 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
• 2024 NAIA women's basketball tournament
• 2024 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament