The 2024 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the

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hosted by the

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to determine the national champion of

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women's

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among its member programs in the

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, 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

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from March 14–16, 2024.

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defeated

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in the final, 51–41, to win the Violets' second national title.

Tournament schedule and venues

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

. 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

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as an all-sports conference and the merger of the

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and the

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(the UEC retained the auto bid). While this is the second season for the

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, its conference tournament champion will not be eligible for an automatic bid until 2025.

Tournament bracket

Top left sectional

Bottom left sectional

Top right sectional

Bottom right sectional

Final Four

References

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Tournament schedule and venues

Regionals

Final Four

Qualifying

Tournament bracket

Top left sectional

Bottom left sectional

Top right sectional

Bottom right sectional

Final Four

See also

References