NCAA | February 28, 2022 NCAA Division III women's basketball bracket announced for 2022 championship DIII women's basketball: 2022 selection show Share 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) Rutgers' C. Vivian Stringer announces retirement after Hall of Fame coaching career Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer announces her retirement after a Hall of Fame career, leaving the game with 1,055 wins and countless lives improved through leadership, mentorship and guidance. READ MORE The colleges (and conferences) with the most players taken in the 2022 WNBA draft Thirty-six new players were drafted into the WNBA in 2022, including 34 from NCAA Division I programs. The most came from the ACC and SEC. READ MORE College basketball teams with the most WNBA 1st-round draft picks Connecticut leads all women's college basketball programs with 25 players taken in the first round of the WNBA draft. READ MORE