INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship tournament field was announced Sunday evening and featured three Gulf South Conference teams—Lee, Union and Valdosta State.
The tournament will begin with regional play with first round games on March 15. The region title games are slated for March 18. The remaining teams from each of the eight regions will then travel to St. Joseph, Mo., for the NCAA D2 National Championship, scheduled March 25-29.
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Valdosta State headlined the trio of selections as it was named the No. 1-seed and will host South Region. The Lady Blazers, who captured the GSC regular season and tournament titles, go into the NCAA postseason carrying a 29-2 record overall and hold longest active win streak in D2 women’s basketball at 26 games. This is Valdosta State’s fourth consecutive trip to the tournament and 15th all-time. VSU will open against No. 8-seed and SIAC tournament champion, Miles.
Union will be the No. 2-seed in tournament and will open against Eckerd. The Lady Bulldogs make their seventh-consecutive appearance and ninth all-time with 29-3 record.
Lee, the GSC tournament runner-up, will be the No. 5-seed and will face Nova Southeastern from the Sunshine State Conference in the opening round. The Lady Flames are 21-10 on the season and will make their eighth consecutive NCAA postseason appearance.
The 2024 edition of the tournament will mark the eighth consecutive year that three or more GSC teams are dancing in the national event and the 12th time since 2010. During that time the conference has been represented in the D2 Women’s Basketball national quarterfinals.
NCAA Championships Pass will stream 120 DII men’s and women’s basketball tournament games (all games from first round through quarterfinals) live on NCAA.com. Games will be available on NCAA.com, school sites that stream through Hudl and opt to co-distribute the live streams, and the NCAA Championships Pass app available for Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Google TV. Fans are available to purchase per game ($9.95), per championship ($29.95) or the all games ($49.95).