Teams | 64 | ||||
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Finals site | Mayo Civic Center Rochester, Minnesota | ||||
Champions | Amherst Lord Jeffs (3rd title) | ||||
Runner-up | Bowdoin Polar Bears (2nd title game) | ||||
Semifinalists |
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Winning coach | G.P. Gromacki (1st title) | ||||
MOP | Emma McCarthy (Amherst) | ||||
Attendance | 43,288 | ||||
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The 2018 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the 37th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States. [1]
Defending champions Amherst defeated Bowdoin in the championship game, 65–45, to claim the Lord Jeffs' third Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minnesota.
Final Four | National championship | ||||||||
Amherst | 66 | ||||||||
Thomas More | 48 | ||||||||
Amherst | 65 | ||||||||
Bowdoin | 45 | ||||||||
Bowdoin | 90 | ||||||||
Wartburg | 62 |
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