The NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament (officially styled as "Championship" instead of "Tournament") is an annual tournament to determine the
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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 (AIAW) 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
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outbreak.
The next year saw the field reduced to 48, but will return to 64 in 2022 & hereafter.
Glenville State
Glenville State University (GSU) is a public college in Glenville, West Virginia.
History
Glenville State University was founded in 1872 as a branch of West Virginia Normal School. It became known as Glenville State Normal School. It served th ...
are the defending national champions.
Qualification
A total of 64 bids are normally available for each tournament: 23 automatic bids (awarded to the champion of each Division II all-sports conference) and 41 at-large bids. Due to
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issues, the 2020 tournament was canceled, and the 2021 tournament was reduced to 48 teams when nine all-sports conferences chose not to compete in women's basketball in 2020–21.
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 23 Division II conferences that sponsor women's basketball. Each region normally consists of two or three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and five or six at-large bids (awarded regardless of conference affiliation).
Conference tournaments
Results
Statistics
Championships by school
See also
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NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
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NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
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NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament
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NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Championship
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Women's Basketball national championship has been held annually since 1981. The NAIA Women's Tournament was established one year before the NCAA Women's Basketball tournament. It was created t ...
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NAIA Division II Women's Basketball Championship
The NAIA Division II women's basketball championship is the former tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of women's college basketball among its Division II members in the United States and Canada.
The tournament was h ...
Notes
References
External links
Attendance historyArchived
Division II Women's Basketball Championships Records Books (Through 2019)Archived
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