Take it easy on us on our first go here at what a NAIA Hoops Women’s Bracketology Report would look like. The main purpose of this is to have some fun with and bring some attention to the NAIA Women’s National Championships. The good news is we have had a lot of people volunteer to help shape this as we continue on with our future bracketology reports. We will go a little more in-depth with our updated report after the new rankings come out this week. For now, we wanted to focus on what a potential NAIA Women’s National Championship Bracket could look like. We tried to use the criteria that the committee uses as well as trying to adjust seeds to try and keep league teams from having to be in the same POD together. There are still teams playing themselves both in and out of the bracket and as we come down the final couple weeks of the season, there will be plenty of bid stealers who pull upsets in the Conference Tournaments as well!
The Bracket
Auto-Bids
Tournament Champion: Columbia
Tourney/Champ/2 Seed: UHSP
Regular Season Champion: Lewis-Clark State
Tourney Champ/2nd Seed: Eastern Oregon
Regular Season Champion: Marian
Tourney Champ/2nd Seed: Indiana Wesleyan
Regular Season Champion: Westmont
Tourney Champ/Runner-Up: Vanguard
Regular Season Champion: Sterling
Tourney Champ/2nd Seed: Bethany
Regular Season Champion: Tx A&M Texarkana
Tourney Champ/Highest ARC: LSU Shreveport
Regular Season Champion: Loyola
Regular Season Champions: Bryan
Tourney Champ/2nd Seed: Milligan
Regular Season Champion: IU South Bend
Tourney Champ/2nd Seed: IU Northwest
Regular-Season 3rd Place: St Francis (IL)
Tournament Champion: Carroll
Regular Season Champion: Dordt
Tourney Champ/Runner-Up: Briar Cliff
Regular Season Champion: Thomas More
Tourney Champ/Runner-Up Campbellsville
Tourney Champion: Rio Grande
Tourney Runer-Up: Oakland City
Tourney Champ: Florida Memorial
Regular Season Champion: Antelope Valley
Tourney Champ/2nd Seed: Simpson
Tournament Champion: Iowa Wesleyan
Tourney Runner-Up: Washington Adventist
Tournament Champion: Rust
Regular Season Champion: Central Methodist
Tourney Champ/2nd Seed: Clarke
Tourney Champ: Dakota State
Regular Season Champion: Texas Wesleyan
Tourney Champ/Runner-Up: Science & Arts
Regular Season Champion: Indiana Tech
Tourney Champ/Runner-Up: Rochester
At-Large Bids
Firmly In
CCC: Southern Oregon
Crossroads: Grace
Frontier: Montana Western, Rocky Mountain
GPAC: CUNE, Dakota Wesleyan, Northwestern (IA), Jamestown
GSAC: Menlo
Heart: Grand View, MidAmerica Nazarene
Mid-South: Pikeville, Cumberlands, Freed-Hardeman
RSC: Midway
SAC: MACU, John Brown
SSAC: Brewton-Parker, Faulkner
The Bubble
In…At least for Now
Mid-South: Georgetown
SUN: St Thomas
WHAC: Siena Heights
Last Four In
Morningside
Wayland Baptist
Saint Xavier
Missouri Baptist
First Four Out
Cumberland
Southwestern Christian
Hope International
Oregon Tech
Next Four Out
Culver-Stockton
Philander Smith
Our Lady of the Lake
Tabor
