NJCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship

NJCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship
Founded1975
Region24
Number of teams169
Current championsHutchinson Community College 2024
Most successful club(s)Trinity Valley CC (8)
Websitehttps://www.njcaa.org/sports/wbkb/2022-23/div1/index

The NJCAA Division I women's basketball championship is an American intercollegiate basketball tournament conducted by the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and determines the Division I women's national champion. The current champion is Northwest Florida State College who defeated Trinity Valley Community College on March 27, 2023 to capture the 2023 Championship and their second national championship. The tournament has been held since 1975.[1] The most successful program, Trinity Valley Community College, has won the tournament eight times, including three straight championships from 2012-2015. From 1998-2014, the tournament was hosted at Bicentennial Center in Salina, Kansas.[2] Since 2016, the tournament is held at Rip Griffin Center, on the campus of former NJCAA member Lubbock Christian University, in Lubbock, Texas.[2]

  1. ^ "NJCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RECORD BOOK" (PDF). NJCAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-14. Retrieved 10 Oct 2014.
  2. ^ a b "NJCAA moving women's finals to Lubbock". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Retrieved November 2, 2015.