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Four UAA Teams Earn Bids to NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship

Four UAA Teams Earn Bids to NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship
Posted: Feb 27, 2023

NYU received the UAA's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship are are joined in the field by at-large recipients Emory University, University of Chicago, and Washington University.

2023 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship Bracket

Forty-four conferences have been awarded automatic qualification for the 2023 championship.  There was one berth reserved for Pool B and the final 19 berths were 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 3-4.  Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites March 10-11.  Winners of the four sectional sites will advance to the national semifinals March 18. All games, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. The semifinals will be conducted at Oosting Gymnasium in Hartford, Connecticut, hosted by Trinity College (Connecticut).

For only the second time in the 41-year history of NCAA women’s basketball, the NCAA Division II and III national championships will be decided at the Women’s Final Four site. Both games will be Saturday, April 1, at the American Airlines Center, with the Division III championship game tipping at 11 a.m. Central time, followed by the Division II title game at 2:30 p.m. Central time. Both games will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.

NYU will head to Messiah University to take on Greensboro College at 4:30 p.m. ET on Friday. Messiah will host Bridgewater State University in the other first round conetest. The winners will face off Saturday at 7 p.m.

Emory will face Millikin University at host Transylvania University at 5:45 p.m. p.m. ET on Friday. The hosts will play Rhodes College in the other first round game. The winners will meet on Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

Chicago will host a regional on Friday and Saturday. After University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Whitman College meet in the first game at 5:30 p.m. CST, the Maroons will play University of Northwestern-St. Paul at 8 p.m. CST. The winners will meet Saturday at 8 p.m. CST.

WashU will play at Loras against Trine University on Friday at 6:15 p.m. ET, while the hosts face Knox College in the second contest. The winners will face off Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET.