2025 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament

2025 NCAA Division III
women's basketball tournament

Teams	64
Finals site	Cregger Center, Salem, Virginia
Champions	NYU (3rd title)
Runner-up	Smith (2nd title game)
Winning coach	Meg Barber (2nd title)
NCAA Division III women's tournaments «2024 2026»

The 2025 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 2024–25 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 Cregger Center at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, from March 20–22, 2025.

NYU won their second-straight title, third overall, and finished the season with a perfect 31–0 record.

Qualifying

A total of sixty-four bids were available for the tournament: Forty-three (43) automatic bids—awarded to the champions of the forty-two NCAA Division III conferences guaranteed a spot in the tournament and twenty-one (21) at-large bids to the highest rated programs that failed to win their respective leagues. The number of automatic bids increased by one this year due to the Collegiate Conference of the South getting an automatic bid.

Tournament bracket

* – denotes overtime

Top left sectional

	First round March 7, 2025				Second round March 8, 2025				Sectional semifinals March 14, 2025				Sectional finals March 15, 2025
	Bowdoin	66
	Brooklyn	42
					Bowdoin	67
	Brunswick, ME
					Cortland	54
	Cortland	48
	Endicott	46
									Bowdoin	47
									Smith	53
	Amherst	64
	Vassar	49
					Amherst	50
	Northampton, MA
					Smith	52
	Smith	69
	SUNY Cobleskill	59
													Smith	61
													Gustavus Adolphus	50
	East Texas Baptist	59
	Texas Lutheran	62
					Texas Lutheran	63
	Marshall, TX
					McMurry	66
	McMurry	79
	California Lutheran	63
									McMurry	58
									Gustavus Adolphus	71
	Wartburg	57
	Wisconsin–Stevens Point	56
					Wartburg	50
	St. Peter, MN
					Gustavus Adolphus	56
	Gustavus Adolphus	61
	Wisconsin Lutheran	49

Bottom left sectional

	First round March 7, 2025				Second round March 8, 2025				Sectional semifinals March 14, 2025				Sectional finals March 15, 2025
	Illinois Wesleyan	95
	Centre	57
					Illinois Wesleyan	82
	Bloomington, IL
					Trine	50
	Trine	81*
	Transylvania	74
									Illinois Wesleyan	43
									Wisconsin-Oshkosh	63
	Bethel (MN)	71
	DePauw	65
					Bethel (MN)	49
	Oshkosh, WI
					Wisconsin–Oshkosh	59
	Wisconsin–Oshkosh	61
	Calvin	52
													Wisconsin-Oshkosh	60
													Baldwin Wallace	53
	Ohio Wesleyan	87
	Immaculata	42
					Ohio Wesleyan	78
	Delaware, OH
					Washington & Jefferson	65
	Messiah	72
	Washington & Jefferson	76*
									Ohio Wesleyan	65
									Baldwin Wallace	68
	Washington & Lee	65
	Merchant Marine	53
					Washington & Lee	71
	Berea, OH
					Baldwin Wallace	75
	Baldwin Wallace	63
	La Roche	53

Top right sectional

	First round March 7, 2025				Second round March 8, 2025				Sectional semifinals March 14, 2025				Sectional finals March 15, 2025
	NYU	102
	Gallaudet	62
					NYU	83
	New York, NY
					Trinity (CT)	45
	UMass Dartmouth	56
	Trinity (CT)	59
									NYU	74
									Geneseo	53
	Christopher Newport	64
	Montclair State	67
					Montclair State	49
	Washington, D.C.
					Geneseo	71
	Catholic	63
	Geneseo	74
													NYU	76
													Gettysburg	51
	Randolph–Macon	52
	Piedmont	31
					Randolph–Macon	62
	Ashland, VA
					Elizabethtown	56
	Elizabethtown	99
	Brockport	67
									Randolph-Macon	49
									Gettysburg	56
	Western New England	61
	Tufts	52
					Western New England	52
	Gettysburg, PA
					Gettysburg	55
	Gettysburg	64
	Stevens	46

Bottom right sectional

	First round March 7, 2025				Second round March 8, 2025				Sectional semifinals March 14, 2025				Sectional finals March 15, 2025
	Whitman	77
	Wisconsin–Superior	54
					Whitman	69
	Menomonie, WI
					Wisconsin–Stout	75
	Wisconsin–Stout	87
	Ripon	57
									Wisconsin–Stout	62
									Wisconsin–Whitewater	56
	Colorado College	52
	Wisconsin–La Crosse	79
					Wisconsin–La Crosse	49
	Whitewater, WI
					Wisconsin–Whitewater	50
	Wisconsin–Whitewater	75
	Principia	53
													Wisconsin–Stout	81
													Scranton	77
	Johns Hopkins	75
	Saint Joseph (CT)	50
					Johns Hopkins	68
	Baltimore, MA
					Carnegie Mellon	58
	Carnegie Mellon	69
	Bridgewater State	58
									Johns Hopkins	46
									Scranton	52
	Southern Virginia	53
	Bates	55
					Bates	49
	Scranton, PA
					Scranton	70
	Scranton	93
	Mount Saint Mary	35

Final Four

	National semifinals March 20 Salem, VA				National championship March 22 Salem, VA
	Smith	49
	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	47
					Smith	49
					NYU	77
	NYU	74
	Wisconsin-Stout	55

See also

• 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
• 2025 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
• 2025 NAIA women's basketball tournament
• 2025 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament