2025 NCAA DII women’s basketball: Bracket, schedule, how to watch
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The 2025 DII women’s basketball championship tipped off with a selection show on Sunday, March 9 at 10:30 p.m. ET live streamed on NCAA.com. The NCAA released the field here.
The tournament consists of a 64-team field, including 23 automatic bids, with regionals determining the eight quarterfinalists that advance to the Women’s Elite Eight at the UMPC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 24-28.
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Below is the 2025 DII women’s basketball tournament bracket.
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Minnesota State is the reigning champion since beating Texas Woman’s in the 2024 championship. Below is every DII men’s basketball champion and runner-up from the last decade:
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NCAA.COM | MARCH 9, 2025
| Year | Champion (Record) | Coach | Score | Runner-Up | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Minnesota State (32-5) | Emilee Thiesse | 89-73 | Texas Woman’s | St. Joseph, MO |
| 2023 | Ashland (37-0) | Kari Pickens | 78-67 | Minnesota Duluth | Dallas, TX |
| 2022 | Glenville State (35-1) | Kim Stephens | 85-72 | Western Washington | Birmingham, AL |
| 2021 | Lubbock Christian (23-0) | Steve Gomez | 69-59 | Drury | Columbus, Ohio |
| 2020 | Canceled due to Covid-19 | — | — | — | — |
| 2019 | Lubbock Christian (32-5) | Steve Gomez | 95-85 (2OT) |
Southwestern Oklahoma | Columbus, Ohio |
| 2018 | Central Missouri (30-3) | Dave Slifer | 66-52 | Ashland | Sioux Falls, S.D. |
| 2017 | Ashland (37-0) | Robyn Fralick | 93-77 | Virginia Union | Columbus, Ohio |
| 2016 | Lubbock Christian (35-0) | Steve Gomez | 78-73 | Alaska-Anch. | Indianapolis |
| 2015 | California (Pa.) (32-4) | Jess Strom | 86-69 | Cal Baptist | Sioux Falls, S.D. |
ASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Khalis Cain scored a career-high 20 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked five shots to lift UNC Greensboro to a 64-57 win in overtime over Chattanooga in the Southern Conference championship game on Sunday, giving the Spartans their second NCAA Tournament berth, the first since 1998.
It was also the first championship game loss in 21 appearances for the Mocs, who beat UNCG 69-60 in the title game last year for their 17th NCAA trip.
The top-seeded Spartans (25-6), who have won 14 straight, blocked 10 shots, five in overtime when Chattanooga went 1 for 9 with two turnovers. UNCG was 2 of 5 but went 8 of 11 from the foul line.
Jayde Gamble added 12 points and Nya Smith had 10 for the Spartans. Cain had her 25th career double-double. UNCG coach Trina Patterson, a coach of the year in three different Division I leagues over 26 seasons dating back to 1991-92, is headed to her first NCAA Tournament.
Freshman Gianna Corbitt scored 18 points for the second-seeded Mocs (16-14). Brooke Anya had 13 points and 10 rebounds and Karsen Murphy added 11 points.
Murphy’s 3-pointer with 48.4 seconds left in regulation gave Chattanooga a 52-51 lead but Cain came right back with a free throw to tie it. Both teams missed a final attempt.
UNCG scored the first eight points and led 26-21 after a first half that saw both teams shoot below 36% but there were only six turnovers and five fouls.
Chattanooga turned its run spanning halftime to 11-0, tying the game at 26 when Murphy hit a 3-pointer and taking the first lead on two free throws by Anya at the 5:23 mark.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Marisa Moseley has stepped down after posting a 47-75 record in four seasons at a program that has been struggling to compete in the Big Ten for over a decade.
The Badgers went 13-16 this season and lost 81-54 to Iowa in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday. Moseley didn’t win more than one-third of her Big Ten games in any of her four seasons.
“I notified (athletic director) Chris McIntosh of my decision to resign for personal reasons,” Moseley said Sunday in a statement released by the university. “It has been a privilege to lead the program at Wisconsin. I am grateful for the student-athletes, coaches and staff in our program who have put in so much time and effort. I am appreciative, also, of the Badger fans who supported us at the Kohl Center and around the country.”
Associate head coach Margaret McKeon will serve as interim head coach while Wisconsin begins a national search for Moseley’s successor.
“Marisa informed me this past Friday that she would be stepping down,” McIntosh said in a statement. “I want to thank Marisa for the commitment she demonstrated as head coach of our women’s basketball program. She had a clear passion for coaching our student-athletes and she worked hard to bring success to our program. I wish her well as she transitions to the next chapter of her life.”
Wisconsin had announced in late January that it was looking into a former player’s allegations that she was mistreated by Moseley and her staff.
Ball State center Tessa Towers, who played for Wisconsin from 2022-24, never mentioned Moseley by name while saying in a TikTok post that “my freshman year of college, I felt like a lab rat for my coaches and staff because they would put me on new medications every other week.”
Towers also said her former coach “made me sign a release form for her to access my therapy sessions, or I’d be kicked off the team.” Towers alleged that the coach and staff forced her to get tested for autism and added that “my coach gave me a choice between admitting myself to a mental hospital or getting kicked off the team.”
After Wisconsin’s first game following those allegations, Moseley said she couldn’t comment on any student-athlete’s health-related claims but added that “any of my players’ mental and physical well-being will always come before basketball.”
“My staff and I work hard and pride ourselves on trying to create an environment that welcomes everyone, and we try to build both positive and lasting relationships with these players,” Moseley said at the time. “I have fully participated in the university’s procedures in regard to this matter, and I feel like, at this time, that’s all that really needs to be said.”
Wisconsin’s release announcing Moseley’s departure made no reference to Towers’ allegations.
Moseley had come to Wisconsin after posting a 45-29 record in three seasons at Boston University. She previously was an assistant coach on five of coach Geno Auriemma’s national championship teams at UConn.
But she was unable to turn around a Wisconsin program that has struggled for well over a decade.
The Badgers last avoided a losing season in 2010-11, when they went 16-15. Wisconsin posted its best winning percentage since that 2010-11 season when it went 15-17 and reached a WNIT quarterfinal under Moseley last year.
Wisconsin’s last NCAA Tournament appearance was in 2010.
