Women's NCAA Tournament bracket is out!

First-weekend host, No. 42 seed, Hardin-Simmons.
Hardin-Simmons athletics photo by Scott Burkhalter

Here’s who’s going where when the NCAA Tournament starts on Friday. How did we get all those Texas teams sent out? Spoiler alert: We did not.

Nobody in Texas had a high enough seed to host, and nobody was even seeded highly enough to get a No. 2 seed under normal circumstances: Hardin-Simmons is seeded 42nd and shouldn’t be hosting a pod with the 46th, 50th and 61st seeds. But that’s what happened here, as this bracket is definitely a victim of the geographical and financial restrictions in Division III. The winner of that bracket goes to No. 1 NYU, perhaps, for the round of 16.

Transylvania’s failure to file paperwork to host ensured that they could not help fix some of the geographic challenges in this bracket. Anyone in Indiana, Ohio or Kentucky who might qualify for the NCAA Tournament should always file to host.

Seeding for all 64 teams:

Rank	Team	Conf	NPI	How?	At-large rank	Overall seed
1	New York University	UAA	69.897	AQ	–	1
2	UW-Oshkosh	WIAC	69.042	At-Lg	1	2
3	Washington and Lee	ODAC	68.198	AQ	–	3
4	Scranton	LAND	67.260	AQ	–	4
5	Johns Hopkins	CC	66.651	At-Lg	2	5
6	Denison	NCAC	65.559	At-Lg	3	6
7	Hope	MIAA	65.143	AQ	–	7
8	Bowdoin	NESCAC	63.763	At-Lg	4	8
9	John Carroll	NCAC	63.713	At-Lg	5	9
10	UW-Whitewater	WIAC	63.624	At-Lg	6	10
11	UW-La Crosse	WIAC	63.476	AQ	–	11
12	Concordia-Moorhead	MIAC	63.338	At-Lg	7	12
13	Bethel	MIAC	63.184	AQ	–	13
14	Bates	NESCAC	62.683	AQ	–	14
15	Washington U.	UAA	62.678	At-Lg	8	15
16	Ohio Wesleyan	NCAC	62.664	At-Lg	9	16
17	Illinois Wesleyan	CCIW	62.660	AQ	–	17
18	Smith	NEWMAC	62.418	AQ	–	18
19	UW-Platteville	WIAC	62.267	At-Lg	10	19
20	Carroll	CCIW	61.973	At-Lg	11	20
21	Chicago	UAA	61.958	At-Lg	12	21
22	SUNY New Paltz	SUNYAC	61.599	AQ	–	22
23	Ripon	MWC	61.489	AQ	–	23
24	Baldwin Wallace	OAC	61.457	At-Lg	13	24
25	Trine	MIAA	61.104	At-Lg	14	25
26	UW-River Falls	WIAC	60.829	At-Lg	15	26
27	Gettysburg	CC	60.804	AQ	–	27
28	Wisconsin Lutheran	NACC	60.506	AQ	–	28
29	DePauw	NCAC	60.355	AQ	–	29
30	Southern Maine	LEC	60.291	AQ	–	30
31	Otterbein	OAC	60.277	AQ	–	31
32	Messiah	MACC	60.097	AQ	–	32
33	Cortland	SUNYAC	60.069	At-Lg	16	33
34	Randolph-Macon	ODAC	60.062	At-Lg	17	34
35	Christopher Newport	C2C	59.988	AQ	–	35
36	Gustavus Adolphus	MIAC	59.981	At-Lg	18	36
37	Shenandoah	ODAC	59.819	At-Lg	19	37
38	William Paterson	NJAC	59.538	At-Lg	20	38
39	St. Mary’s (Minn.)	MIAC	59.148	At-Lg	21	39
42	Hardin-Simmons	ASC	58.770	AQ	–	40
44	Transylvania	HCAC	58.337	AQ	–	41
46	Union	LL	58.231	AQ	–	42
50	Washington & Jefferson	PAC	58.046	AQ	–	43
52	JWU Providence	CNE	57.893	AQ	–	44
60	DeSales	MACF	57.206	AQ	–	45
63	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	SCIAC	57.122	AQ	–	46
64	Coe	ARC	57.094	AQ	–	47
65	Immaculata	AEC	57.037	AQ	–	48
70	Merchant Marine	SKY	56.627	AQ	–	49
72	Whitman	NWC	56.480	AQ	–	50
86	Millsaps	SAA	55.519	AQ	–	51
88	SUNY Geneseo	E8	55.464	AQ	–	52
94	LaGrange	CCS	55.230	AQ	–	53
97	Southern Virginia	USAC	55.018	AQ	–	54
100	Penn State-Behrend	AMCC	54.915	AQ	–	55
101	Emmanuel	GNAC	54.907	AQ	–	56
106	St. Mary’s (Md.)	UEC	54.614	AQ	–	57
117	TCNJ	NJAC	54.001	AQ	–	58
131	Hunter	CUNYAC	53.402	AQ	–	59
147	Maine-Farmington	NAC	52.702	AQ	–	60
172	Austin	SCAC	51.367	AQ	–	61
175	Webster	SLIAC	51.256	AQ	–	62
213	Framingham State	MASCAC	49.803	AQ	–	63
217	UW-Superior	UMAC	49.664	AQ	–	64

Women’s NCAA Tournament bracket is out!

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