2023 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament
The 2023 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's college basketball in the United States for the 2022–23 season. It featured 64 teams.
| Teams | 64 | ||||
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| Finals site | Oosting Gymnasium (semifinals) American Airlines Center (final) Hartford, Connecticut (semifinals) Dallas, Texas (final) | ||||
| Champions | Transylvania (1st title) | ||||
| Runner-up | Christopher Newport (1st title game) | ||||
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| Winning coach | Juli Fulks (1st title) | ||||
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During the 2022–23 academic year, the NCAA organized many events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX, federal legislation outlawing sex discrimination in higher education. As part of this celebration, the NCAA scheduled the women's basketball championship games of all three of its divisions at the site of the 2023 Division I Final Four. Accordingly, the championship game was held on April 1, 2023 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. The national semifinals were played at Oosting Gymnasium at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut on March 18.
This scheduling also created an unusually long break in the tournament. Normally, the national championship game is played one or two days after the semifinals, but this year's final took place 14 days after the semifinals.