2021 NAIA women's basketball tournament

Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats
(1st Fab Four)
Morningside Mustangs
(1st Fab Four)

Coach of the yearKirsten Moore (Westmont)Player of the yearStefanie Berberabe (Westmont)

Charles Stevenson
Hustle Award

Lauren Tsuneishi (Westmont)Chuck Taylor MVPStefanie Berberabe (Westmont)Top scorerStefanie Berberabe (Westmont)
(14 points)

NAIA women's tournaments
«2019	2022»

The 2021 NAIA women's basketball tournament was the tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of women's college basketball among its member programs in the United States and Canada, culminating the 2020–21 basketball season.

This was the first tournament after the NAIA consolidated its basketball membership back into a single division, eliminating the separate championships that existed for its Divisions I and II from 1992 to 2020.

Westmont defeated Thomas More in the championship game, 72–61, the Warriors' second NAIA national title.

The tournament was played at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa.^[1]

Qualification

After the merger of the two NAIA divisional tournaments back into a single event, the field of the combined event was set to forty-eight teams.

The tournament continued to utilize a simple single-elimination format. The first two preliminary rounds were played on regional campus sites while all subsequent rounds were played at the final tournament site in Sioux City.

References

^ "NAIA Women's Basketball Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. Retrieved March 4, 2024.

NAIA Women's Basketball Championships

Non-divisional
(1981–1991,
2021–present)

Divisional era

Division I	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Division II	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020