In 2000, the NKU women’s basketball team became NKU’s first national championship team by winning the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship in overtime 71–62 over North Dakota State. The 2002–03 team was the NCAA Women’s Division II national runner-up. The team won its second national championship in 2008 by a score of 63–58 over South Dakota, becoming one of only five schools to win more than one NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship, as well as the only two-time NCAA national champions in the state of Kentucky.