NCAA.org | March 6, 2022 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Committee Announces 2022 Championship Field DII women's basketball: 2022 selection show Share INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams that will compete in the 2022 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship. Twenty-three conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 41 teams were selected at large by the committee. Eight eight-team regionals will be played at on-campus sites March 11, 12 and 14. The eight regional champions advancing to the Women’s Elite Eight will be seeded by the Women's Basketball Committee after completion of the regionals. The 2022 NCAA Division II Women’s Elite Eight will be held at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama, March 21, 23 and 25. Miles College and the City of Birmingham will serve as hosts. Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows: CONFERENCE SCHOOL California Collegiate Athletic Association Cal State East Bay Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference University of the Sciences Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Lincoln (Pennsylvania) Conference Carolinas Barton East Coast Conference Daemen Great American Conference Southwestern Oklahoma State Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Ferris State Great Lakes Valley Conference Drury Great Midwest Athletic Conference Ashland Great Northwest Athletic Conference Central Washington Gulf South Conference Union (Tennessee) Lone Star Conference West Texas A&M Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Fort Hays State Mountain East Conference Charleston (West Virginia) Northeast-10 Conference Bentley Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Minnesota Duluth Pacific West Conference Azusa Pacific Peach Belt Conference North Georgia Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Gannon Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Metropolitan State University of Denver South Atlantic Conference Carson-Newman Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Benedict Sunshine State Conference Tampa Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows: SCHOOL Academy of Art Alaska Anchorage Cal State San Marcos California University of Pennsylvania Catawba Chestnut Hill Colorado Mesa Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University Pueblo Columbus State Eckerd Florida Southern Georgia Southwestern Glenville State Grand Valley State Indiana (Pennsylvania) Kutztown Lander Le Moyne Lee Lubbock Christian Minnesota State Mankato Missouri Southern State Missouri Western Missouri-St. Louis Nebraska-Kearney Northwest Nazarene Pace Savannah State Shepherd Southern Indiana Southern New Hampshire St. Cloud State Texas A&M-Commerce Texas Woman’s University Thomas Jefferson University Valdosta State Walsh Wayne State (Michigan) Western Washington Wingate 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