07-03-2025
DSU to host NAIA Tournament first and second round
MADISON, S.D. (DAKOTA STATE) — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has officially announced the teams and bracket for the 2025 NAIA Women's Basketball Championship First and Second Rounds.
The 64-team bracket will begin with the First and Second Rounds at host sites nationwide on March 14-15.
The 2025 NAIA Second Round winners will meet in Sioux City, Iowa, at the NAIA Championship final site. The 44th annual championship occurs at the Tyson Events Center from March year's First Round field includes 35 automatic qualifiers and 29 at-large selections. Automatic berths were given to teams that either won their respective conference tournament title or regular season championships, finished runner-up at the conference tournament or were otherwise selected by the conference. The NAIA Women's Basketball national Selection Committee determined the at-large bids. The selection committee consists of one representative from each geographical area and six at-large members comprised of coaches and administrators from around the State (S.D.) was selected one of the hosts sites for the NAIA National Tournament for the second straight year. DSU received the North Star Athletic Association's automatic bid to the national tournament after winning the regular season and postseason tournament titles with an overall record of 24-4. Dakota State will be making their fifth straight trip to the NAIA National tournament, their 10th overall trip in program Trojans were placed in the Duer Quadrant as a No. 4 seed and will face future Frontier Conference's No. 13 seed Montana Tech (18-11 overall record), who received an at-large invitation. It was the second straight year that DSU was seeded No. 4 in the other pairings that will come to DSU Fieldhouse is No. 5 seed Governors State (Ill.) (26-5 overall record), who won the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC), and No. 12 seed Arizona Christian (25-5 overall record), who received an at-large game times will be announced Friday, stay tuned to the DSU Athletics website on or download the Trojan Nation fan app to stay up to date with athletics events and other Duer Quadrants pairings included:
No. 1 Campbellsville (Ky.) vs. No. 16 Lourdes (Ohio)
No. 8 Mobile (Ala.) vs. No. 9 Williams Baptist (Ark.)
No. 3 Briar Cliff (Iowa) vs. No. 14 Spring Arbor (Mich.)
No. 6 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) vs. No. 11 Columbia (Mo.)
No. 2 MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) vs. No. 15 Kansas Wesleyan
No. 7 Mid-America Christian (Okla.) vs. No. 10 Northwestern (Iowa)
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