NAIA Women's Basketball Championships
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Women's Basketball National Championship has been held annually since 1981. The NAIA Women's Tournament was established one year before the NCAA Women's Basketball tournament. It was created to crown a women's national title for smaller colleges and universities. From 1992 to 2020, the NAIA sponsored a women's division II championship tournament. Also the entire tournament is played in one city. Contracts for host cities for both divisions initially expired in 2017. Following renewals, the 2018 and 2019 tournaments were held in the same cities, but in 2020, the tournaments were called off due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Division I
The NAIA Division I Women's Basketball National Championship Tournament is held at the Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark in Billings, Montana and has been played there since in 2012. The NAIA was the only international intercollegiate athletic association in North America; the NAIA DI Women's Basketball Championship was the first championship to feature a college from outside the United States in the championship game. Former member Simon Fraser University was the national DI runner-up in 1996 and 1997. Oklahoma City University has the most tournament championships with 9, and most championship game appearances with 11. In 2018, the NAIA announced a new format for the 2021 tournament after the merger of Divisions I and II.Division II
The NAIA Division II Women's Basketball National Championship Tournament was held annually, at the Tyson Events Center and Gateway Arena in Sioux City, Iowa. Northwestern College had the most national titles with five. 2015 champion Morningside College had the second most national titles with three. Northwestern College also had the most tournament championship game appearances with six.The NAIA announced in April 2018 that it would discontinue its Division II basketball championships for both men and women after the 2019–20 season. The DII women's basketball schools will merge into the DI under a new championship tournament format in 2021.
Championships by school - Division I
- Division II titles are not included in this list. Schools in italics are no longer in the NAIA.
| Team | Championships | Winning years |
| Oklahoma City | 9 | 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017 |
| Southern Nazarene | 7 | 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004 |
| Southwestern Oklahoma | 5 | 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990 |
| Union | 5 | 1998, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 |
| Arkansas Tech | 2 | 1992, 1993 |
| Kentucky State | 1 | 1981 |
| UNC Asheville | 1 | 1984 |
| Francis Marion | 1 | 1986 |
| Fort Hays State | 1 | 1991 |
| Lambuth ; defunct | 1 | 2007 |
| Vanguard | 1 | 2008 |
| Azusa Pacific | 1 | 2011 |
| Westmont | 1 | 2013 |
| MidAmerica Nazarene | 1 | 2016 |
| Freed–Hardeman | 1 | 2018 |
| Montana Western | 1 | 2019 |
Championships by school - Division II
- Division I titles are not included in this list. Schools in italics are no longer in the NAIA.
| Team | Championships | Winning years |
| Northwestern | 5 | 2001, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 |
| Morningside | 4 | 2004, 2005, 2009, 2015 |
| Hastings | 3 | 2002, 2003, 2006 |
| Northern State | 2 | 1992, 1994 |
| Western Oregon | 2 | 1995, 1996 |
| Indiana Wesleyan | 2 | 2007, 2013 |
| Marian | 2 | 2016, 2017 |
| Northern Montana | 1 | 1993 |
| Northwest Nazarene | 1 | 1997 |
| Walsh | 1 | 1998 |
| Shawnee State | 1 | 1999 |
| Mary | 1 | 2000 |
| Saint Francis | 1 | 2014 |
| Dakota Wesleyan | 1 | 2018 |
| Concordia | 1 | 2019 |