Women's NCAA Tournament bracket is out!

Mar 03, 2025
NYU: No. 1 in our poll, No. 2 in NPI, but still the top seed on the right hand side of the bracket.
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Here's who's going where when the NCAA Tournament starts on Friday. How did we get all those WIAC teams split up? Spoiler alert: We did not. 

Five WIAC teams, five NESCAC teams, three SCAC teams, all made this a challenge to bracket, but the women's committee did what they could with it and turned in a quality bracket. What does this bracket not have? It doesn't have Whitman, No. 5 in NPI, hosting in the first weekend, and that's presumably because they didn't get budget approval for the one extra flight it would have required to bring three teams to Washington. Having that extra flight could have saved having two WIAC teams in the same pod of four, where UW-La Crosse and UW-Whitewater could potentially meet in the second round.

But otherwise, this bracket is really well balanced. The seeding provided by NPI is standing up nicely here. The bracket is balanced well geographically, as much as possible.

Seeding for all 64 teams:

 

Rank Team Conf NPI   At-large Seed
1 Bowdoin NESCAC 68.464 A - 1
2 NYU UAA 68.32 A - 2
3 Scranton LAND 66.241 A - 3
4 Baldwin Wallace OAC 65.719 A - 4
5 Whitman NWC 65.687 A - 5
6 Illinois Wesleyan CCIW 65.577 A - 6
7 Gustavus Adolphus MIAC 65.48 A - 7
8 Gettysburg CC 64.754 A - 8
9 Randolph-Macon ODAC 64.559 A - 9
10 UW-Oshkosh WIAC 63.564 C 1 10
11 Smith NEWMAC 62.906 A - 11
12 East Texas Baptist ASC 61.899 A - 12
13 UW-Whitewater WIAC 61.897 A - 13
14 Johns Hopkins CC 61.731 C 2 14
15 Catholic LAND 61.406 C 3 15
16 Ohio Wesleyan NCAC 61.382 C 4 16
17 Wartburg ARC 61.331 A - 17
18 Carnegie Mellon UAA 61.309 C 5 18
19 Bethel MIAC 61.285 C 6 19
20 Christopher Newport C2C 61.258 A - 20
21 Trine MIAA 61.254 C 7 21
22 Messiah MACC 60.873 A - 22
23 UW-Stout WIAC 60.768 C 8 23
24 Elizabethtown LAND 60.736 C 9 24
25 Western New England CNE 60.274 C 10 25
26 Colorado College SCAC 60.065 C 11 26
27 Washington and Lee ODAC 59.99 C 12 27
28 Mass-Dartmouth LEC 59.986 A - 28
29 Southern Virginia USAC 59.927 A - 29
30 Cortland SUNYAC 59.668 A - 30
31 Texas Lutheran SCAC 59.404 A - 31
32 Amherst NESCAC 59.226 C 13 32
33 Merchant Marine SKY 59.116 C 14 33
34 Trinity (Conn.) NESCAC 59.095 C 15 34
35 McMurry SCAC 58.93 C 16 35
36 Endicott CNE 58.86 A - 36
37 Tufts NESCAC 58.826 C 17 37
38 Bates NESCAC 58.622 C 18 38
39 Bridgewater State MASCAC 58.368 A - 39
40 Washington & Jefferson PAC 58.290 A - 40
41 Transylvania HCAC 58.242 A - 41
42 Brockport E8 58.233 C 19 42
43 UW-Stevens Point WIAC 58.023 C 20 43
44 Ripon MWC 57.923 A - 44
45 UW-La Crosse WIAC 57.82 C 21 45
52 Montclair State NJAC 57.39 A - 46
54 DePauw NCAC 57.309 A - 47
55 Vassar LL 57.161 A - 48
58 SUNY Geneseo E8 57.096 A - 49
61 Immaculata AEC 56.895 A - 50
67 Cal Lutheran SCIAC 56.567 A - 51
69 Wisconsin Lutheran NACC 56.418 A - 52
81 SUNY-Cobleskill NAC 55.854 A - 53
100 Calvin MIAA 54.723 A - 54
104 St. Joseph (Conn.) GNAC 54.433 A - 55
107 La Roche AMCC 54.198 A - 56
110 Centre SAA 54.065 A - 57
115 Stevens MACF 53.885 A - 58
118 Piedmont CCS 53.831 A - 59
155 Mount St. Mary SKY 51.851 A - 60
181 Gallaudet UEC 51.048 A - 61
190 UW-Superior UMAC 50.797 A - 62
212 Principia SLIAC 49.968 A - 63
224 Brooklyn CUNYAC 49.667 A - 64