2024 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
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St. Joseph, Missouri
| Teams | 64 | ||||
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| Finals site | St. Joseph Civic Arena, St. Joseph, Missouri | ||||
| Champions | Minnesota State Mavericks (2nd title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Texas Woman's Pioneers (1st title game) | ||||
| Semifinalists |
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| Winning coach | Emily Thiesse (1st title) | ||||
| MOP | Natalie Bremer (Minnesota State) | ||||
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The 2024 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament was the single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States, culminating the 2023–24 NCAA Division II women's basketball season. The tournament featured 64 teams.
The national quarterfinals (Elite Eight), semifinals, and finals were played from March 25–29, 2024, at the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Minnesota State defeated Texas Woman's in the final, 89–73, to claim the Mavericks' second national title and first since 2009.[1]
Regionals
First, second, and third-round games (the latter of which serves as a regional championship) will be held at campus sites from March 15–18, 2024. The top-seeded team in each regional will serve as host.
Elite Eight
The national quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals will be held at a predetermined site, the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Qualification
A total of 64 bids were available for the tournament: Twenty-three automatic bids (awarded to the champions of each Division II conference) and 41 at-large bids.[2]
The bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), each of which contains either two or three of the twenty-three Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball. Each region consists of two or three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and either five or six at-large bids, awarded regardless of conference affiliation.