INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams that will compete in the 2018 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship.
Twenty-four conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 40 teams were selected at large by the committee.
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Eight eight-team regionals will be played at on-campus sites March 9, 10 and 12. 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 2018 NCAA Division II Women’s Elite Eight will be held at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, March 19, 21 and 23, in conjunction with the 2018 NCAA Division II Men’s Elite Eight. The men’s games will be played March 20, 22 and 24. The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference and the Sioux Falls Sports Authority will serve as hosts.
Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows:
| Conference | School |
|---|---|
| California Collegiate Athletic Association | Humboldt State |
| Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference | University of the Sciences |
| Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Virginia Union |
| Conference Carolinas | Barton |
| East Coast Conference | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Great American Conference | Arkansas Tech |
| Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Ashland |
| Great Lakes Valley Conference | Drury |
| Great Midwest Athletic Conference | Hillsdale |
| Great Northwest Athletic Conference | Montana State Billings |
| Gulf South Conference | Union (Tennessee) |
| Heartland Conference | Lubbock Christian |
| Lone Star Conference | West Texas A&M |
| Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association | Lindenwood (Missouri) |
| Mountain East Conference | Glenville State |
| Northeast-10 Conference | Bentley |
| Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference | Augustana (South Dakota) |
| Pacific West Conference | Hawaii Pacific |
| Peach Belt Conference | North Georgia |
| Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference | Edinboro |
| Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference | Colorado State-Pueblo |
| South Atlantic Conference | Carson-Newman |
| Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Clark Atlanta |
| Sunshine State Conference | Florida Southern |
Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows:
| Alaska Anchorage | Limestone |
| Anderson (South Carolina) | LIU Post |
| Angelo State | Michigan Tech |
| Arkansas-Fort Smith | Minnesota State University Moorhead |
| Azusa Pacific | MSU Denver |
| Black Hills State | North Alabama |
| Bowie State | Northern State |
| Caldwell | Northwester Nazarene |
| California (Pennsylvania) | Seattle Pacific |
| Central Missouri | Southern Connecticut State |
| Columbus State | Southern Indiana |
| Eckerd | Southwestern Oklahoma State |
| Embry-Riddle | Stonehill |
| Findlay | Tarleton State |
| Fort Hays State | Thomas Jefferson University |
| Grand Valley State | UC San Diego |
| Indiana (Pennsylvania) | Valdosta State |
| Lander | Virginia State |
| Lee | West Chester |
| Lewis | Wingate |
Atlantic Region | Central Region | East Region | Midwest Region | South Central Region | South Region | Southeast Region | West Region
For more information about the championship, log on to ncaa.com.
