INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams that will compete in the 2022 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship.
Twenty-three conferences have been awarded automatic qualification. The remaining 41 teams were selected at large by the committee.
Eight eight-team regionals will be played at on-campus sites March 11, 12 and 14. 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 2022 NCAA Division II Women’s Elite Eight will be held at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama, March 21, 23 and 25. Miles College and the City of Birmingham will serve as hosts.
Conferences that received automatic qualification are as follows:
| CONFERENCE | SCHOOL |
|---|---|
| California Collegiate Athletic Association | Cal State East Bay |
| Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference | University of the Sciences |
| Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Lincoln (Pennsylvania) |
| Conference Carolinas | Barton |
| East Coast Conference | Daemen |
| Great American Conference | Southwestern Oklahoma State |
| Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Ferris State |
| Great Lakes Valley Conference | Drury |
| Great Midwest Athletic Conference | Ashland |
| Great Northwest Athletic Conference | Central Washington |
| Gulf South Conference | Union (Tennessee) |
| Lone Star Conference | West Texas A&M |
| Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association | Fort Hays State |
| Mountain East Conference | Charleston (West Virginia) |
| Northeast-10 Conference | Bentley |
| Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference | Minnesota Duluth |
| Pacific West Conference | Azusa Pacific |
| Peach Belt Conference | North Georgia |
| Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference | Gannon |
| Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference | Metropolitan State University of Denver |
| South Atlantic Conference | Carson-Newman |
| Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Benedict |
| Sunshine State Conference | Tampa |
Those institutions receiving at-large berths are, in alphabetical order, as follows:
| SCHOOL |
|---|
| Academy of Art |
| Alaska Anchorage |
| Cal State San Marcos |
| California University of Pennsylvania |
| Catawba |
| Chestnut Hill |
| Colorado Mesa |
| Colorado School of Mines |
| Colorado State University Pueblo |
| Columbus State |
| Eckerd |
| Florida Southern |
| Georgia Southwestern |
| Glenville State |
| Grand Valley State |
| Indiana (Pennsylvania) |
| Kutztown |
| Lander |
| Le Moyne |
| Lee |
| Lubbock Christian |
| Minnesota State Mankato |
| Missouri Southern State |
| Missouri Western |
| Missouri-St. Louis |
| Nebraska-Kearney |
| Northwest Nazarene |
| Pace |
| Savannah State |
| Shepherd |
| Southern Indiana |
| Southern New Hampshire |
| St. Cloud State |
| Texas A&M-Commerce |
| Texas Woman’s University |
| Thomas Jefferson University |
| Valdosta State |
| Walsh |
| Wayne State (Michigan) |
| Western Washington |
| Wingate |
