2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season | |
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Preseason AP No. 1 | TBD |
Regular season | November 4, 2024 – March 16, 2025 |
NCAA Tournament | 2025 |
Tournament dates | March 19 – April 6, 2025 |
National Championship | Amalie Arena Tampa, Florida |
The 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season will begin on November 4, 2024. The regular season will end on March 16, 2025, with the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament beginning with the first four on March 19 and ending with championship game at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on April 6.
Rule changes
TBD
Season headlines
- May 29, 2024 – Stephen F. Austin announced it would leave the Western Athletic Conference on July 1 to rejoin the Southland Conference after a three-year absence.[1]
Milestones and records
TBD
Conference membership changes
A total of 23 schools joined new conferences for the 2024–25 season. Of these, 20 moved within Division I, two began reclassification from NCAA Division II, and Chicago State ended its two-year stint as an all-sports independent to join the Northeast Conference.
The 2024–25 will be the last season in their respective conferences for five Division I schools.
School | 2024–25 conference | Future conference |
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Delaware | CAA | CUSA |
UMass | Atlantic 10 | MAC |
Missouri State | Missouri Valley | CUSA |
Grand Canyon | WAC | WCC |
Seattle | WAC | WCC |
Arenas
New arenas
- West Georgia will transition from Division II to Division I and plays at the Coliseum in Carrollton, GA where they played since 2009 but this will be their first season playing in Division I after playing 41 years in Division II. And will be ineligible for any postseason play in 2025.
- Georgia Southern will leave the Hanner Fieldhouse after 55 seasons there for the new Jack and Ruth Ann Hill Convocation Center. The team will play its first game in the Hill Convocation Center in November 2024.[2].
- St. Thomas will play their final season at Schoenecker Arena, where they have played since 1981, before moving to the new Lee and Penny Anderson Arena, which will open in the 2025–26 season.[3].
- Vermont was originally slated to open their new arena, Tarrant Event Center, as a replacement for the current arena, Patrick Gym. Construction was to continue in 2021 but it has been delayed indefinitely.[4].
Seasonal outlook
The Top 25 from the AP and USA Today Coaching Polls.
Pre-season polls
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Final polls
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Top 10 matchups
Rankings reflect the AP poll Top 25.
Regular season
Postseason
Regular season
Early season tournaments
Head-to-head conference challenges
Conference Match Up | Dates | Conference Winner | Conference Loser | Record |
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Upsets
Winner | Score | Loser | Date | Tournamnet/Event | Notes |
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Conference winners and tournaments
Each of the 31 Division I athletic conferences will end its regular season with a single-elimination tournament. The team with the best regular-season record in each conference receives the number one seed in each tournament, with tiebreakers used as needed in the case of ties for the top seeding. Unless otherwise noted, the winners of these tournaments will receive automatic invitations to the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
Conference | Regular season first place | Conference player of the year | Conference Coach of the year | Conference tournament | Tournament venue (city) | Tournament winner |
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America East Conference | 2025 America East women's basketball Tournament | Campus Sites | ||||
American Athletic Conference | 2025 American Athletic Conference women's basketball Tournament | Dickies Arena (Fort Worth, TX) | ||||
Atlantic Sun Conference | 2025 ASUN women's basketball Tournament | Campus Sites | ||||
Atlantic 10 Conference | 2025 Atlantic 10 Conference women's basketball Tournament | Barclays Center (Brooklyn, NY) | ||||
Atlantic Coast Conference | 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball Tournament | Spectrum Center (Charlotte, NC) | ||||
Big 12 Conference | 2025 Big 12 Conference women's basketball Tournament | T-Mobile Center (Kansas City, MO) | ||||
Big East Conference | 2025 Big East Conference women's basketball Tournament | Madison Square Garden (New York, NY) | ||||
Big Sky Conference | 2025 Big Sky Conference women's basketball Tournament | Idaho Central Arena (Boise, ID) | ||||
Big South Conference | 2025 Big South Conference women's basketball Tournament | Quebin Center (High Point, NC) | ||||
Big Ten Conference | 2025 Big Ten Conference women's basketball Tournament | United Center (Chicago, IL) | ||||
Big West Conference | 2025 Big West Conference women's basketball Tournament | Dollar Loan Center (Henderson, NV) | ||||
Coastal Athletic Association | 2025 Coastal Athletic Association women's basketball Tournament | Entertainment and Sports Arena (Washington, DC) | ||||
Conference USA | 2025 Conference USA women's basketball Tournament | Propst Arena (Huntsville, AL) | ||||
Horizon League | 2025 Horizon League women's basketball Tournament | Quarterfinals: Campus sites Semifinals and final: Indiana Farmers Coliseum (Indianapolis, IN) | ||||
Ivy League | 2025 Ivy League women's basketball Tournament | Levien Gymnasium (New York, NY) | ||||
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference | 2025 MAAC women's basketball Tournament | Boardwalk Hall (Atlantic City, NJ) | ||||
Mid-American Conference | 2025 Mid-American Conference women's basketball Tournament | Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (Cleveland, OH) | ||||
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference | 2025 MEAC women's basketball Tournament | Norfolk Scope (Norfolk, VA) | ||||
Missouri Valley Conference | 2025 Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball Tournament | Enterprise Center (St. Louis, MO) | ||||
Mountain West Conference | 2025 Mountain West Conference women's basketball Tournament | Thomas and Mack Center (Paradise, NV) | ||||
Northeast Conference | 2025 Northeast Conference women's basketball Tournament | Campus Sites | ||||
Ohio Valley Conference | 2025 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball Tournament | Ford Center (Evansville, IN) | ||||
Patriot League | 2025 Patriot League women's basketball Tournament | Campus Sites | ||||
Southeastern Conference | 2025 Southeastern Conference women's basketball Tournament | Bridgestone Arena (Nashville, TN) | ||||
Southern Conference | 2025 Southern Conference women's basketball Tournament | Harrah's Cherokee Center (Ashville, NC) | ||||
Southland Conference | 2025 Southland Conference women's basketball Tournament | The Legacy Center (Lake Charles, LA) | ||||
Southwestern Athletic Conference | 2025 SWAC women's basketball Tournament | Bartow Arena (Birmingham, AL) | ||||
Summit League | 2025 Summit League women's basketball Tournament | Denny Sanford Premier Center (Sioux Falls, SD) | ||||
Sun Belt Conference | 2025 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball Tournament | Pensacola Bay Center (Pensacola, FL) | ||||
West Coast Conference | 2025 West Coast Conference women's basketball Tournament | Orleans Arena (Paradise, NV) | ||||
Western Athletic Conference | 2025 WAC women's basketball Tournament |
Tournament upsets
Per the NCAA, an upset occurs "when the losing team in an NCAA Tournament game was seeded at least two seed lines better than the winning team.
Round | TBD (#1) | TBD (#2) | TBD (#3) | TBD (#4) |
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Round of 64 | ||||
Round of 32 | None | None | None | None |
Sweet 16 | None | None | None | |
Elite 8 | None | None | None | |
Final 4 | None | |||
National Championship | None |
Conference standings
{{2024–25 America East Conference women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 American Athletic Conference women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Atlantic 10 women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 ACC women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 ASUN women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Big 12 women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 Big East women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Big Sky women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Big South women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 Big Ten Conference women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Big West women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 CAA women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 Conference USA women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Horizon League women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Ivy League women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 MAAC women's basketball standings}} |
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{{2024–25 Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Mountain West Conference women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Northeast Conference women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Patriot League women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 SEC women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 SWAC women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Southern Conference women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Southland Conference women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 Summit League women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball standings}} | {{2024–25 WAC women's basketball standings}} | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{{2024–25 West Coast Conference women's basketball standings}} |
Award winners
2025 Consensus All-Americans
Coaching changes
Many teams will change coaches during the season and after it ends.
Team | Former | Interim | New | Reason |
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