The 2024 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament was the single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States, culminating the 2023–24 NCAA Division II women's basketball season. The tournament featured 64 teams.
The national quarterfinals (Elite Eight), semifinals, and finals were played from March 25–29, 2024, at the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Minnesota State defeated Texas Woman's in the final, 89–73, to claim the Mavericks' second national title and first since 2009.
Tournament schedule and venues
Regionals First, second, and third-round games (the latter of which serves as a regional championship) were held at campus sites from March 15–18, 2024. The top-seeded team in each regional served as host.
Elite Eight The national quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals were held at a predetermined site, the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Qualification A total of 64 bids were available for the tournament: Twenty-three automatic bids (awarded to the champions of each Division II conference) and 41 at-large bids.
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 twenty-three Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball. Each region consists of two or three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and either five or six at-large bids, awarded regardless of conference affiliation.
Bracket Atlantic regional Site: Erie, Pennsylvania (Gannon) and Fairmont, West Virginia (Fairmont State)
Central regional Site: Bethany, Oklahoma (Southern Nazarene)
* – Denotes overtime period
East regional Site: Waltham, Massachusetts (Bentley)
* – Denotes overtime period
Midwest regional Site: Allendale, Michigan (Grand Valley State)
South regional Site: Valdosta, Georgia (Valdosta State)
* – Denotes overtime period
South Central regional Site: Denton, Texas (Texas Woman's)
Southeast regional Site: Salisbury, North Carolina (Catawba)
West regional Site: Azusa, California (Azusa Pacific)
Elite Eight Site: St. Joseph Civic Arena, St. Joseph, Missouri
See also 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament 2024 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament 2024 NAIA women's basketball tournament 2024 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
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