NYU wins the 2025 NCAA DIII women's basketball championship

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 krikyalotto.com. The NCAA 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 
  • Watch the selection show here
• 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
  • NYU 74, SUNY Geneseo 53
  • Gustavus Adolphus 71, McMurry 58
  • Wis.-Stout 62, Wis.-Whitewater 56
  • Baldwin Wallace 68, Ohio Wesleyan 65
  • Gettysburg 56, Randolph-Macon 49
  • Smith 53, Bowdoin 47
  • Scranton 52, Johns Hopkins, 46
  • Wis.-Oshkosh 63, Ill. Wesleyan 43
• Sectionals 
  • NYU 76, Gettysburg 51
  • Smith 61, Gustavus Adolphus 50
  • Wis.-Stout 81, Scrnton 77
  • Wis. Oshkosh 60, Baldwin Wallace 53
• Semifinals 
  • NYU 74, Wis.-Stout 55
  • Smith 49, Wis.-Oshkosh 47
• Championship
  • NYU 77, Smith 49

2025 DIII women's basketball championship history

Here is every DIII women's basketball champion and runner-up from the last decade:

➡️ Tap or click here for the full list of champions since 1982