Creighton Women's Basketball Earns Fourth Straight NCAA Tournament Bid

Omaha, Neb. -- The Creighton women's basketball team is returning to the NCAA Tournament for the 11th time in program history and eighth time in the past 13 years after earning an at-large bid to 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship. The No. 9-seeded Bluejays (26-6) will meet No. 8-seed Illinois (21-9) on Saturday, March 22 at Camron Indoor Stadium in Austin, Texas.

A start time and television coverage will be announced later tonight.

The Bluejay team gathered at a public viewing party inside D.J. Sokol Arena on the Creighton campus to watch the bracket be unveiled on ESPN.

Creighton enters the NCAA Tournament with a 26-6 record after finishing second in the BIG EAST Conference regular-season standings and falling in the finals of the league tournament last weekend at Mohegan Sun Arena. This year's club features a pair of All-BIG EAST First Team selections in Lauren Jensen (17.8 ppg, 4.1 rpg and 120 assists) and Morgan Maly (17.3 ppg., 6.8 rpg). Both Jensen and Maly were recognized at event for crossing the 2,000 career point threshold earlier this month.

Creighton is coached by Jim Flanery, who owns a 453-274 record in 23rd year with the Bluejays. This year marks his eighth trip to the NCAA Tournament at the Division I level, including the 2022 Elite Eight run. Under Flanery the Bluejays are 7-7 in the NCAA Tournament, reaching at least the Second Round in 2013, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2024.

Creighton is 0-1 all-time against the Fighting Illini, the last meeting came on December 6, 1991. That contest was an 87-71 game played in Corvallis, Oregon.

The winner of Saturday's Creighton/Illinois game will meet the winner of the game between No. 1 seed Texas (31-3) and the winner of the No. 16 High Point (21-11) versus No. 16 William & Mary (15-18).