# 2025 Northeast Conference women's basketball tournament

The 2025 Northeast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament is the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Northeast Conference for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament will take place on three dates between March 10 and 16, 2025, and all tournament games will be played in the home arenas of the higher-seeded school. The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament, provided such team is eligible. If a reclassifying institution wins the NEC tournament championship, the tournament runner-up will be awarded the NEC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. If two reclassifying teams, i.e. Le Moyne and Stonehill, reach the final of the NEC tournament, the conference will stage an automatic qualifier game between the two non-advancing semifinalists. Since Le Moyne and Stonehill were matched up against each other in the tournament semifinals, an ineligible team was guaranteed to reach the NEC final. Consequently, the winner of the semifinal between Fairleigh Dickinson and Chicago State receives the NEC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; the winning team will be making its NCAA Division I tournament debut.

## Seeds

For the third straight year, the NEC changed its rules regarding eligibility for the conference tournament. Teams transitioning from Division II may participate in the NEC tournament starting with the third year of their transition. Therefore, Mercyhurst will not be eligible for the NEC tournament until 2027. The change is prospective rather than retroactive. Consequently, Le Moyne, in their second transition year, remain eligible for the 2025 tournament. This means the eight conference members other than Mercyhurst will participate in the tournament. In 2024, the top eight teams in the conference regular-season standings qualified, and all transitioning NEC teams were eligible for the conference tournament.
Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Although Mercyhurst is ineligible for the tournament, they may still be involved in a tiebreaker and affect the outcome of a multi-team tie.
| Seed | School | Conf. | Tiebreaker |
| 1 | Fairleigh Dickinson | 16–0 | |
| 2 | Stonehill | 11–5 | |
| 3 | Central Connecticut | 10–6 | |
| 4 | Saint Francis | 9–7 | |
| 5 | Le Moyne | 6–10 | 1–1 vs. Stonehill |
| 6 | Chicago State | 6–10 | 0–2 vs. Stonehill |
| 7 | Wagner | 5–11 | |
| 8 | LIU | 3–13 | |
| DNQ | Mercyhurst | 6–10 | |

## Schedule

| Game | Time* | Matchup | Score | Television |
| Quarterfinals – Monday, March 10 |||||
| 1 | 7 p.m. | No. 8 LIU at No. 1 Fairleigh Dickinson | 44–73 | NEC Front Row |
| 2 | 7 p.m. | No. 7 Wagner at No. 2 Stonehill | 50–72 | NEC Front Row |
| 3 | 7 p.m. | No. 6 Chicago State at No. 3 Central Connecticut | 70–60 | NEC Front Row |
| 4 | 7 p.m. | No. 5 Le Moyne at No. 4 Saint Francis | 62–51 | NEC Front Row |
| Semifinals – Thursday, March 13 |||||
| 5 | 7 p.m. | No. 6 Chicago State at No. 1 Fairleigh Dickinson | 61–90 | ESPN+ |
| 6 | 7 p.m. | No. 5 Le Moyne at No. 2 Stonehill | 41–60 | ESPN+ |
| Championship – Sunday, March 16 |||||
| 7 | 12 p.m. | No. 2 Stonehill at No. 1 Fairleigh Dickinson | 49–66 | ESPNU |
| *Game times in EDT (UTC−4). Rankings denote tournament seed. |||||

## Bracket

Teams will be reseeded after each round with the highest remaining seeds receiving home-court advantage.
| Quarterfinals Monday, March 10 NEC Front Row | Quarterfinals Monday, March 10 NEC Front Row | Quarterfinals Monday, March 10 NEC Front Row | | | Semifinals Thursday, March 13 ESPN+ | Semifinals Thursday, March 13 ESPN+ | Semifinals Thursday, March 13 ESPN+ | Championship Sunday, March 16 ESPNU | Championship Sunday, March 16 ESPNU | Championship Sunday, March 16 ESPNU |
| 1 | Fairleigh Dickinson | 73 | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | LIU | 44 | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | LIU | 44 | | | 1 | Fairleigh Dickinson | 90 | | | |
| | | | | | 6 | Chicago State | 61 | | | |
| 4 | Saint Francis | 51 | | | 6 | Chicago State | 61 | | | |
| 5 | Le Moyne | 62 | | | | | | | | |
| 5 | Le Moyne | 62 | | | | | | 1 | Fairleigh Dickinson | 66 |
| Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | 1 | Fairleigh Dickinson | 66 |
| Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | Pairings are reseeded after the quarterfinals. | 2 | Stonehill | 49 |
| 2 | Stonehill | 72 | | | | | | | | | 2 | Stonehill | 49 |
| 7 | Wagner | 50 | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | Wagner | 50 | | | 2 | Stonehill | 60 | | | |
| | | | | | 5 | Le Moyne | 41 | | | |
| 3 | Central Connecticut | 60 | | | 5 | Le Moyne | 41 | | | |
| 6 | Chicago State | 70 | | | | | | | | |

## Game summaries

    All times are in EDT (UTC−4).

### Semifinals

*** Note: The winner of Chicago State–Fairleigh Dickinson game will receive the NEC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, since both Stonehill and Le Moyne are ineligible for NCAA postseason play as institutions reclassifying from Division II. ***

### Final
## Awards and honors

Source:
Tournament MVP:

### NEC All-Tournament Team
## Statistics

    Source: