| Gender: | Women's |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Division: | III |
| Teams: | 64 |
| Finalfourarena: | UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse |
| Finalfourcity: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Champions: | Hope Flying Dutch |
| Titlecount: | 3rd |
| Runnerup: | Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks |
| Gamecount: | 2nd |
| Semifinal1: | Trine Thunder |
| Finalfourcount: | 1st |
| Semifinal2: | Amherst Mammoths |
| Finalfourcount2: | 9th |
| Coach: | Brian Morehouse |
| Coachcount: | 2nd |
| Mop: | Sydney Muller |
| Mopteam: | Hope |
The 2022 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States for the 2021–22 NCAA Division III women's basketball season.
The championship rounds were played at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh, March 17–19, 2022. The final game had Hope beating Whitewater 71–58.
This was the first tournament since 2019, as the two previous editions in 2020 and 2021 were both canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Automatic bids | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference | Qualifying school | Record | |||||
| AMCC | La Roche | 20–5 | |||||
| American Rivers | Simpson | 25–1 | |||||
| American Southwest | Hardin-Simmons | 21–4 | |||||
| Atlantic East | Immaculata | 18–8 | |||||
| Centennial | Gettysburg | 24–3 | |||||
| CUNYAC | Brooklyn | 21–3 | |||||
| Coast to Coast | Christopher Newport | 24–0 | |||||
| CCIW | Illinois Wesleyan | 19–8 | |||||
| CSAC | Clarks Summit | 23–4 | |||||
| Commonwealth Coast | Roger Williams | 25–2 | |||||
| Empire 8 | St. John Fisher | 25–2 | |||||
| Great Northeast | Emmanuel (MA) | 25–1 | |||||
| HCAC | Transylvania | 24–0 | |||||
| Landmark | Scranton | 25–2 | |||||
| Liberty | Ithaca | 24–3 | |||||
| Little East | Rhode Island College | 23–5 | |||||
| MASCAC | Framingham State | 22–3 | |||||
| Michigan | Hope | 26–1 | |||||
| MAC Commonwealth | Messiah | 23–3 | |||||
| MAC Freedom | DeSales | 23–3 | |||||
| Midwest | Ripon | 18–9 | |||||
| Minnesota | Gustavus Adolphus | 22–4 | |||||
| NECC | Mitchell | 12–13 | |||||
| NESCAC | Bates | 17–7 | |||||
| NEWMAC | Smith | 23–2 | |||||
| New Jersey | New Jersey City | 13–9 | |||||
| North Atlantic | SUNY Poly | 20–6 | |||||
| North Coast | Wittenberg | 18–7 | |||||
| NACC | Wisconsin Lutheran | 23–1 | |||||
| Northwest | Whitman | 26–1 | |||||
| Ohio | Baldwin Wallace | 21–4 | |||||
| Old Dominion | Shenandoah | 22–5 | |||||
| Presidents' | Washington & Jefferson | 23–4 | |||||
| St. Louis | Webster | 25–0 | |||||
| Skyline | Mount Saint Mary | 23–3 | |||||
| SAA | Rhodes | 23–2 | |||||
| SCIAC | Whittier | 16–8 | |||||
| SCAC | Trinity (TX) | 25–2 | |||||
| SUNYAC | SUNY New Paltz | 20–6 | |||||
| United East | SUNY Morrisville | 19–7 | |||||
| University Athletic | NYU | 22–1 | |||||
| Upper Midwest | North Central (MN) | 24–4 | |||||
| USA South | Southern Virginia | 24–4 | |||||
| Wisconsin | Wisconsin–Eau Claire | 21–7 | |||||
| At-large bids | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying school | Conference | Record | |||||
| Amherst | NESCAC | 21–3 | |||||
| Babson | NEWMAC | 19–7 | |||||
| CUA | Landmark | 20–5 | |||||
| DePauw | North Coast | 23–3 | |||||
| East Texas Baptist | American Southwest | 20–5 | |||||
| Elizabethtown | Landmark | 20–5 | |||||
| John Carroll | Ohio | 22–4 | |||||
| Johns Hopkins | Centennial | 22–4 | |||||
| Marietta | Ohio | 21–5 | |||||
| Mary Hardin-Baylor | American Southwest | 22–4 | |||||
| Millikin | CCIW | 21–6 | |||||
| Salisbury | Coast-to-Coast | 20–6 | |||||
| Springfield | NEWMAC | 22–4 | |||||
| SUNY Cortland | SUNYAC | 21–5 | |||||
| Trine | Michigan | 24–3 | |||||
| Tufts | NESCAC | 20–4 | |||||
| Wartburg | American Rivers | 21–5 | |||||
| Washington and Lee | Old Dominion | 20–6 | |||||
| Wisconsin–Oshkosh | Wisconsin | 19–6 | |||||
| Wisconsin–Whitewater | Wisconsin | 23–4 | |||||