2019 NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament

2019 (2019) NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament

Teams	32
Finals site	Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark Billings, Montana
Champions	Montana Western Bulldogs (1st title, 1st title game, 2nd Fab Four)
Runner-up	Oklahoma City Stars (13th title game, 15th Fab Four)
Semifinalists	Freed–Hardeman Lions (8th Fab Four) Our Lady of the Lake Saints (1st Fab Four)
Coach of the year	Lindsay Wooley (Montana Western)
Player of the year	Bri King (Montana Western)
Charles Stevenson Hustle Award	Britt Cooper (Montana Western)
Chuck Taylor MVP	Bri King (Montana Western)
Top scorer	Brianna King (Montana Western) (126 points)
NAIA Division I women's tournaments «2018 2021»

The 2019 NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament was the tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of women's college basketball among its Division I members in the United States and Canada for the 2018–19 basketball season.

With the cancellation of the 2020 tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the NAIA's coincident consolidation of its two divisions, this was the final completed edition of a separate Division I NAIA women's basketball tournament.

Montana Western defeated Oklahoma City in the championship game, 75–59, to claim the Bulldogs' first NAIA national title.

The tournament was played at the Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark in Billings, Montana.[1]

Qualification

The tournament field remained fixed at thirty-two teams. No teams were seeded.

The tournament continued to utilize a simple single-elimination format.

Bracket

	First round				Second round				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				National championship
	Bethel (TN)	49
	Lindsey Wilson	60
					Lindsey Wilson	43
					Freed–Hardeman	61
	Dillard	53
	Freed–Hardeman	63
									Freed–Hardeman	82
									Lewis–Clark State	60
	LSU Alexandria	70
	Westmont	63
					LSU Alexandria	66
					Lewis–Clark State	69
	Lewis–Clark State	64
	William Penn	58
													Freed–Hardeman	71
													Montana Western	78
	The Master's	54
	USAO	40
					The Master's	65
					MidAmerica Nazarene	45
	MidAmerica Nazarene	72
	Xavier Louisiana	65
									The Master's	55
									Montana Western	60
	Georgetown (KY)	69
	Montana Western	89
					Montana Western	70
					Lyon (AR)	58
	Lyon (AR)	77
	Vanguard	73
																	Montana Western	75
																	Oklahoma City	59
	Loyola New Orleans	84
	Our Lady of the Lake	89
					Our Lady of the Lake	96
					Wayland Baptist	93
	Wayland Baptist	83
	William Jessup	38
									Our Lady of the Lake	94
									Campbellsville	88
	Talladega	65
	Menlo	49
					Talladega	56
					Campbellsville	74
	Providence (MT)	84
	Campbellsville	89
													Our Lady of the Lake	70
													Oklahoma City	85
	Clarke (IA)	62
	Columbia (MO)	59
					Clarke (IA)	71
					Shawnee State	68
	Shawnee State	65
	Rocky Mountain	57
									Clarke (IA)	72
									Oklahoma City	76
	Carroll (MT)	58
	Pikeville	45
					Carroll (MT)	59
					Oklahoma City	60
	Arizona Christian	71
	Oklahoma City	75

See also

• 2019 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament
• 2019 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
• 2019 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
• 2019 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament
• 2019 NAIA Division II women's basketball tournament

References

1. "NAIA Women's Basketball Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. Retrieved March 31, 2022.