DII Report™️ — Let the madness begin

Welcome to March.

The DII Report takes a break from its regularly scheduled DII baseball news to remind you that the 2025 DII men’s and women’s basketball championships kick off this week. For those of you who don’t watch, I highly recommend that you do. The brackets are full of the same intensity and buzzer beaters that have made March a month every sports fan looks forward to at the Division I level.

You can stream the regional rounds on the host seeds site before the DII Elite Eight’s move to ESPN+. You can get all the information for the men’s tournament here and the women’s tournament here.

Consider this a crash course on the tournament, a DII college basketball bracket 101 course, if you would.

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The DII women’s basketball championship

Let’s start with three essential articles you need to have (all free):

• How the DII women's basketball championship tournament works

• DII women's basketball programs with the most NCAA DII national championships

• 8 red-hot DII women's basketball teams you don't want to play right now

Wayne’s eight sleepers for the DII women’s Elite Eight

Below is a list of sleepers to watch from each region, along with my prediction for the team to beat in each region in parentheses. I broke down the entire bracket in this article (free) on NCAA.com.

• Atlantic: Fayetteville State (Edinboro)

• Central: Southern Nazarene (Concordia-St. Paul)

• East: Southern Connecticut State (Daemen)

• Midwest: Ashland (Grand Valley State)

• South: Tampa (Embry-Riddle)

• Southeast: Carson-Newman (North Georgia)

• South Central: UT Tyler (Lubbock Christian)

• West: Alaska Anchorage (Cal State Dominguez Hills)

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The DII men’s basketball championship

Three essential articles you need to have (all free):

• How the DII men's basketball championship tournament works

• DII men's basketball programs with the most NCAA DII national championships

• The latest DII men’s basketball Power 10 rankings before the tournament

Wayne’s eight sleepers for the DII men’s Elite Eight

As I did with the women’s bracket, here is list of sleepers to watch from each region, along with my prediction for the team to beat in each region in parentheses. I broke down the entire bracket in this article (free) on NCAA.com.

• Atlantic: Fayetteville State (West Liberty)

• Central: Minot State (MSU Moorhead)

• East: Southern New Hampshire (Daemen)

• Midwest: Lincoln (MO) (Lake Superior State)

• South: Florida Southern (Nova Southeastern)

• Southeast: USC Aiken (Lenoir-Rhyne)

• South Central: West Texas A&M (DBU)

• West: Cal State San Bernardino (Point Loma)