NYU defeated Smith 77-49 on Saturday, March 22 for its second-straight DIII women's basketball title. The Violets finished the season 31-0, completing the perfect season.
The 2025 DIII women's basketball championship kicked off with the selection show on Monday, March 3 at 3 p.m. ET live on sifoeeprocess.com. The 红杏视频 released the full list of qualifiers here.
The 64-team, single-elimination tournament consisted of 43 automatic qualifiers and 21 at-large bids.
2025 DIII women's basketball championship bracket
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2025 DIII women's basketball championship results
- Selection show
- First round
- Second round
- Baldwin Wallace 75, Wash. & Lee 71
- Ohio Wesleyan 78, Wash. & Jeff. 65
- Smith 52, Amherst 50
- Scranton 70, Bates 49
- SUNY Geneseo 71, Montclair St. 49
- Gettysburg 55, Western New Eng. 52
- Randolph-Macon 62, Elizabethtown 56
- Johns Hopkins 68, Carnegie Mellon 58
- Bowdoin 67, Cortland 54
- NYU 83, Trinity (CT) 45
- Wis.-Whitewater 50, Wis.-La Crosse 49
- McMurry 66, Texas Lutheran 63
- Wis.-Stout 75, Whitman 69
- Ill. Wesleyan 82, Trine 50
- Gustavus Adolphus 56, Wartburg 50
- Sectionals
- Sectionals
- Semifinals
- Championship
2025 DIII women's basketball championship history
Here is every DIII women's basketball champion and runner-up from the last decade:
Year | Champion (Record) | Coach | Score | Runner-Up | Site |
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2025 | NYU (31-0) | Meg Barber | 77-49 | Smith | Salem, Virginia |
2024 | NYU (31-0) | Meg Barber | 51-41 | Smith | Columbus, Ohio |
2023 | Transylvania (33-0) | Juli Fulks | 57-52 | Christopher Newport | Dallas, Texas |
2022 | Hope (32-1) | Brian Morehouse | 71-58 | Wisconsin-Whitewater | Pittsburgh, Pa. |
2021 | Canceled due to Covid-19 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
2020 | Canceled due to Covid-19 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
2019 | Thomas More (32-0) | Jeff Hans | 81-67 | Bowdoin | Salem, Va. |
2018 | Amherst (33-0) | GP Gromacki | 65-45 | Bowdoin | Rochester, Minn. |
2017 | GP Gromacki | 52-29 | Tufts | Grand Rapids, Mich. | |
2016 | Jeff Hans | 63-51 | Tufts | Indianapolis | |
2015 | * | Jeff Hans | 83-63 | George Fox | Grand Rapids, Mich. |
鉃★笍&苍产蝉辫;Tap or click here for the full list of champions since 1982