2011 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament


The 2011 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament involves 64 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 2010–11 basketball season.

Qualification and tournament format

The champions of the 22 basketball conferences qualify automatically. An additional 42 teams are selected as at-large participants by the selection committee. The first three rounds of the tournament are organized in regions comprising eight participants in groups of two or three conferences. The eight regional winners then meet at the Elite Eight for the final three rounds held at the St. Joseph Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Automatic qualifiers

The following teams automatically qualified for the tournament as the winner of their conference championships:
TeamConferenceRegion
Cal Poly PomonaCCAAWest
Goldey–BeacomCACCEast
ShawCIAAAtlantic
BartonConference CarolinasSoutheast
C.W. PostECCEast
Michigan TechGLIACMidwest
LewisGLVCMidwest
Alaska AnchorageGNACWest
Arkansas TechGulf SouthSouth
Texas–Permian BasinHeartlandSouth Central
Texas Women'sLone StarSouth Central
Northwest Missouri StateMIAASouth Central
BentleyNortheast-10East
Winona StateNSICCentral
Grand CanyonPacific WestWest
Georgia CollegePeach BeltSoutheast
EdinboroPSACAtlantic
Fort LewisRMACCentral
TusculumSACSoutheast
Fort Valley StateSIACSouth
Florida StateSunshine StateSouth
Glenville StateWVIACAtlantic

Qualified teams

Regional play

South – [Russellville, Arkansas]

Midwest – [Houghton, Michigan]

South Central – [Tahlequah, Oklahoma]

West – [Pomona, California]

Central – [Durango, Colorado]

Atlantic – [Edinboro, Pennsylvania]

East – [Waltham, Massachusetts]

Southeast – [Morrow, Georgia]

Elite Eight – [St. Joseph, Missouri]