INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2022 championship.
Forty-four conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the 2022 championship. There are no berths reserved for Pool B and the final 20 berths are reserved for Pool C, which includes institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.
Sixteen first/second-round sites will be conducted March 4-5. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 11-12. Winners of the four sectional sites will advance to the national semifinals and final March 17 and 19. All games, except the semifinals/final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semifinals/final will be conducted at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hosted by SportsPITTSBURGH and Presidents' Athletic Conference.
| Conference | Automatic Qualifier team |
|---|---|
|
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference |
La Roche (20-5) |
|
American Rivers Conference |
Simpson (25-1) |
|
American Southwest Conference |
Hardin-Simmons (21-4) |
|
Atlantic East Conference |
Immaculata (18-8) |
|
Centennial Conference |
Gettysburg (24-3) |
|
City University of New York Athletic Conference |
Brooklyn (21-3) |
|
Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference |
Christopher Newport (24-0) |
|
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin |
Illinois Wesleyan (19-8) |
|
Colonial States Athletic Conference |
Clarks Summit (23-4) |
|
Commonwealth Coast Conference |
Roger Williams (25-2) |
|
Empire 8 |
St. John Fisher (25-2) |
|
Great Northeast Athletic Conference |
Emmanuel (Massachusetts) (25-1) |
|
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Transylvania (24-0) |
|
Landmark Conference |
Scranton (25-2) |
|
Liberty League |
Ithaca (24-3) |
|
Little East Conference |
Rhode Island College (23-5) |
|
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Framingham State (22-3) |
|
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Hope (26-1) |
|
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth |
Messiah (23-3) |
|
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom |
DeSales (21-3) |
|
Midwest Conference |
Ripon (18-9) |
|
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Gustavus Adolphus (22-4) |
|
New England Collegiate Conference |
Mitchell (12-13) |
|
New England Small College Athletic Conference |
Bates (17-7) |
|
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference |
Smith (23-2) |
|
New Jersey Athletic Conference |
New Jersey City (13-9) |
|
North Atlantic Conference |
SUNY Polytechnic Institute (20-6) |
|
North Coast Athletic Conference |
Wittenberg (18-7) |
|
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference |
Wisconsin Lutheran (23-1) |
|
Northwest Conference |
Whitman (26-1) |
|
Ohio Athletic Conference |
Baldwin Wallace (21-4) |
|
Old Dominion Athletic Conference |
Shenandoah (22-5) |
|
Presidents’ Athletic Conference |
Washington & Jefferson (23-4) |
|
Skyline Conference |
Mt. St. Mary (NY) (23-3) |
|
Southern Athletic Association |
Rhodes (23-2) |
|
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Whittier (16-8) |
|
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Trinity (Texas) (25-2) |
|
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Webster (25-0) |
|
State University of New York Athletic Conference |
SUNY New Paltz (20-6) |
|
United East Conference |
SUNY Morrisville (19-7) |
|
University Athletic Association |
New York University (22-1) |
|
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference |
North Central (Minnesota) (24-4) |
|
USA South Athletic Conference |
Southern Virginia (24-4) |
|
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Wisconsin-Eau Claire (21-7) |
| Pool C |
|---|
|
Amherst (21-3) |
|
Babson (19-7) |
|
Catholic (20-5) |
|
DePauw (23-3) |
|
East Texas Baptist (20-5) |
|
Elizabethtown (20-5) |
|
John Carroll (22-4) |
|
Johns Hopkins (22-4) |
|
Marietta (21-5) |
|
Mary Hardin-Baylor (22-4) |
|
Millikin (21-6) |
|
Salisbury (20-6) |
|
Springfield (22-4) |
|
SUNY Cortland (21-5) |
|
Trine (24-3) |
|
Tufts (20-4) |
|
Wartburg (21-5) |
|
Washington and Lee (20-6) |
|
Wisconsin-Oshkosh (19-6) |
|
Wisconsin-Whitewater (23-4) |
