NCAA's Top 16 starts with NYU

 

If the season ended today -- or really, if the season had ended this past Sunday, here's what the Top 16 seeds would have looked like entering the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA's Top 16 for Division III women's basketball was revealed exclusively on Hoopsville on Thursday night, Feb. 15.

This listing takes into account the NCAA Division III selection criteria. NCAA selections do not take into account the D3hoops.com Top 25. Teams generally will play at least three games between this ranking and when the NCAA Tournament selections are announced on Feb. 26.

"This very much is an exercise, this is not anything definitive," said Bethany Dannelly, associate athletic director at Washington & Lee and the chair of the NCAA Division III women's basketball committee. "We had some conversations interally within our committee ... if we had new regional rankings, would some of our Top 16 shift? We don't know. We're not there right now."

Watch the full reveal, along with more in-depth interviews and our panel's analysis on the Feb. 15 Hoopsville below: