| Gender: | Women's |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Division: | II |
| Teams: | 64 |
| Finalfourcity: | Birmingham, Alabama |
| Finalfourarena: | Birmingham CrossPlex |
| Champions: | Glenville State |
| Titlecount: | 1st |
| Runnerup: | Western Washington |
| Gamecount: | 1st |
| Semifinal1: | North Georgia |
| Finalfourcount: | 1st |
| Semifinal2: | Grand Valley State |
| Finalfourcount2: | 3rd |
| Coach: | Kim Stephens |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mvp: | Re'Shawna Stone |
| Mvpteam: | Glenville State |
The 2022 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament was the single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States.
The championship rounds were held March 21–25, 2022, at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama. Glenville State won its first title by defeating Western Washington, 85–72.[1]
The tournament returned to its pre-COVID-19 pandemic field of sixty-four teams.[2]
First, second, and third-round games, which comprise each regional championship, will take place on campus sites on March 11, 12, and 14. The top-seeded team in each regional serves as host.
These eight locations were chosen to host regional games for the 2022 tournament:
The national quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals will be held on March 21, 23, and 25 at a pre-determined site, the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama.
A total of sixty-four bids are available for the tournament: 23 automatic bids (awarded to the champions of the twenty-one Division II conferences) and 41 at-large bids.
The bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast, and West), each of which contains either two or three of the twenty-three Division II conferences that sponsor men's basketball (after the Heartland Conference disbanded in 2019, the South Region now features only two conferences). Each region consists of two or three automatic qualifiers (the teams who won their respective conference tournaments) and either five or six at-large bids, awarded regardless of conference affiliation.
| Automatic bids | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region (Bids) | Conference | School | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid | |
| Atlantic (3) | CIAA | Lincoln (PA) | 22–7 | 1st | Never | |
| Mountain East | Charleston | 21–8 | 10th | 2014 | ||
| PSAC | Gannon | 24–6 | 13th | 2020 | ||
| Central (3) | Great American | SW Oklahoma State | 29–4 | 7th | 2021 | |
| MIAA | Fort Hays State | 28–3 | 8th | 2021 | ||
| Northern Sun | Minnesota–Duluth | 24–4 | 14th | 2021 | ||
| East (3) | CACC | U Sciences | 23–4 | 7th | 2020 | |
| East Coast | Daemen | 20–4 | 3rd | 2021 | ||
| Northeast-10 | Bentley | 19–8 | 36th | 2019 | ||
| Midwest (3) | GLIAC | Ferris State | 22–9 | 6th | 2020 | |
| GLVC | Drury | 31–4 | 19th | 2021 | ||
| G-MAC | Ashland | 28–2 | 12th | 2021 | ||
| South (3) | Gulf South | Union (TN) | 26–2 | 7th | 2021 | |
| SIAC | Benedict | 23–7 | 9th | 2020 | ||
| Sunshine State | Tampa | 29–5 | 14th | 2020 | ||
| South Central (2) | Lone Star | West Texas A&M | 23–10 | 27th | 2020 | |
| RMAC | Metro State | 22–8 | 9th | 2018 | ||
| Southeast (3) | Carolinas | Barton | 28–1 | 10th | 2021 | |
| Peach Belt | North Georgia | 25–3 | 6th | 2021 | ||
| South Atlantic | Carson–Newman | 26–5 | 12th | 2021 | ||
| West (3) | CCAA | Cal State East Bay | 22–2 | 4th | 2017 | |
| GNAC | Central Washington | 23–7 | 4th | 2003 | ||
| PacWest | Azusa Pacific | 24–3 | 6th | 2021 | ||
| At-large bids | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region (Bids) | School | Conference | Record (Conf.) | Appearance | Last bid |
| Atlantic (5) | California (PA) | PSAC | 24–5 | 18th | 2020 |
| Glenville State | Mountain East | 29–1 | 15th | 2021 | |
| Indiana (PA) | PSAC | 21–8 | 15th | 2020 | |
| Kutztown | PSAC | 26–6 | 2nd | 1996 | |
| Shepherd | PSAC | 24–7 | 3rd | 2015 | |
| Central (5) | Minnesota State | NSIC | 21–6 | 7th | 2015 |
| Missouri Southern | MIAA | 24–6 | 4th | 1996 | |
| Missouri Western | MIAA | 21–9 | 13th | 2016 | |
| Nebraska–Kearney | MIAA | 23–7 | 14th | 2021 | |
| St. Cloud State | NSIC | 23–4 | 14th | 2021 | |
| East (5) | Chestnut Hill | CACC | 24–6 | 1st | Never |
| Jefferson | CACC | 23–8 | 13th | 2020 | |
| Le Moyne | NE-10 | 17–7 | 4th | 2020 | |
| Pace | NE-10 | 21–7 | 17th | 2012 | |
| Southern New Hampshire | NE-10 | 21–6 | 3rd | 1990 | |
| Midwest (5) | Grand Valley State | GLIAC | 27–2 | 17th | 2021 |
| UMSL | GLVC | 23–5 | 3rd | 2014 | |
| Southern Indiana | GLVC | 23–5 | 12th | 2020 | |
| Walsh | G-MAC | 26–4 | 4th | 2021 | |
| Wayne State | GLIAC | 18–9 | 5th | 2015 | |
| South (5) | Eckerd | Sunshine State | 20–4 | 6th | 2020 |
| Florida Southern | Sunshine State | 20–9 | 16th | 2020 | |
| Lee (TN) | Gulf South | 24–7 | 5th | 2021 | |
| Savannah State | SIAC | 27–2 | 2nd | 1995 | |
| Valdosta State | Gulf South | 23–5 | 14th | 2021 | |
| South Central (6) | Colorado Mesa | RMAC | 23–6 | 7th | 2020 |
| Colorado Mines | RMAC | 25–5 | 4th | 2021 | |
| CSU Pueblo | RMAC | 23–8 | 11th | 2018 | |
| Lubbock Christian | Lone Star | 26–6 | 6th | 2021 | |
| Texas A&M–Commerce | Lone Star | 26–4 | 5th | 2021 | |
| Texas Woman's | Lone Star | 19–8 | 3rd | 2016 | |
| Southeast (5) | Catawba | SAC | 23–6 | 7th | 2021 |
| Columbus State | Peach Belt | 17–11 | 12th | 2018 | |
| Georgia Southwestern | Peach Belt | 22–6 | 1st | Never | |
| Lander | Peach Belt | 22–4 | 16th | 2021 | |
| Wingate | SAC | 24–5 | 19th | 2019 | |
| West (5) | Academy of Art | PacWest | 18–10 | 4th | 2016 |
| Alaska Anchorage | GNAC | 20–6 | 19th | 2020 | |
| Cal State San Marcos | CCAA | 22–3 | 2nd | 2020 | |
| Northwest Nazarene | GNAC | 18–9 | 9th | 2020 | |
| Western Washington | GNAC | 20–5 | 18th | 2020 | |
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Location: Birmingham CrossPlex