2024 - Women’s NCAA Glimpses

The Drexel Dragons women’s basketball program currently competes in the Coastal Athletic Association in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The Dragons joined Division I in 1982. In the 1980s, the team nickname changed from the Dragonettes to the Dragons. Drexel has received three bids to the NCAA Women’s Basketball tournament, occurring in 2009, 2021, and 2024. Drexel’s women’s basketball team won their first national title in 2013, winning the NIT Tournament. The Dragons have appeared in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) eleven times, winning it in 2013. On February 22, 2007, Drexel defeated Northeastern 98–90 in an NCAA Division I record five overtimes. Drexel captured its first-ever CAA Basketball championship with a 64–58 victory against James Madison University. This was the Dragon’s first CAA tournament title in any sport since joining the conference in 2001–02 and it represented the first NCAA tournament berth for Drexel women’s basketball since going Division I in 1982. The win also marked the team’s 16th straight since starting off the season with an 8 and 8 record. The Dragons received a number twelve seeding in the 2009 NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament.