The George Mason Patriots women's basketball team represents

George Mason University George Mason University (GMU) is a Public university, public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., the university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father ...

and competes in the

Atlantic 10 Conference The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I. The A-10's member schools are located most ...

NCAA Division I NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...

History

George Mason's women basketball program began play in 1973, joining Division I in 1982. They were members of the

Colonial Athletic Association The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), formerly the ECAC South Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association, is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA' ...

from 1985 to 2013. They finished as runner-up in the CAA Tournament in 1988, 1994, and 2004. In 2013, they joined the Atlantic-10 Conference. The Patriots (as of the end of the 2018–19 season) have an all-time record of 581–607. In the program's history, they have five postseason appearances, 3 in the

Women's National Invitation Tournament The Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament. It used to feature both a preseason and postseason version played every year, but the preseason tournament was last held in 2023. It is operate ...

in 2001, 2004, and 2018, 1 in the WBIT, and 1 in the NCAA Tournament. They won their first ever postseason game in the

2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament The 2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament was an annual single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2018 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, 2018 Women's NCAA tournament. ...

. In the 2024-2025 season, they advanced all the way to the 2025 Atlantic 10 women's basketball tournament final, their first A10 conference tournament championship appearance in school history, defeating St. Joe's 73-58 to reach their first ever NCAA Tournament. The #11 seed Patriots played #6 seed Florida State in the 2025 Women's NCAA Tournament, falling 59-94. They ended the season with a 27-6 record, the best in program history.

Postseason

NCAA Division I

George Mason appeared in the

NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Div ...

once.

WBIT

George Mason has appeared in the

Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament The Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament (WBIT) is a women's national college basketball tournament inaugurated in 2024. It is operated in a similar fashion to the men's college National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and is run by the Nationa ...

once.

WNIT

George Mason appeared in the

(WNIT) three times. They have a record of 1–3.

References

External links

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