The 2023 Colonial Athletic Association women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's college basketball tournament for the Colonial Athletic Association for the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament was held March 8–12, 2023 at the SECU Arena in Towson, Maryland. Monmouth won the tournament to claim the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA tournament, marking the Hawks' first NCAA tournament appearance since 1983. The seventh-seeded Hawks were also the lowest seed ever to win the CAA women's tournament, defeating all three of the top seeds in the process, and were also the first CAA team to win four games in consecutive days to win the tournament.
This was the final women's basketball tournament held under the Colonial Athletic Association name. On July 20, 2023, the CAA announced it had changed its name to Coastal Athletic Association. The name change did not affect the CAA initialism, and the conference kept its existing logo.
Seeds SeedSchoolConf.Tiebreaker1Towson13-52-1 vs. Drexel/Northeastern2Drexel13-52-2 vs. Towson/Northeastern3Northeastern13-51-2 vs. Towson/Drexel4William & Mary12-61-0 vs. North Carolina A&T5North Carolina A&T12-60-1 vs. William & Mary6Stony Brook11-77Monmouth9-91-0 vs. Delaware8Delaware9-90-1 vs. Monmouth9Hampton8-1010Charleston6-1211Elon5-1312Hofstra4-1413UNC Wilmington2-16
Schedule SessionGameTime*MatchupScoreTelevision First Round – Wednesday, March 8112:00pmNo. 12 Hofstra vs. No. 13 UNC Wilmington61–58FloHoops Second Round – Thursday, March 92212:00pmNo. 8 Delaware vs. No. 9 Hampton67–78FloHoops32:30pmNo. 5 North Carolina A&T vs. No. 12 Hofstra59–66345:00pmNo. 7 Monmouth vs. No. 10 Charleston69–5458:30pmNo. 6 Stony Brook vs. No. 11 Elon54–51 Quarterfinals – Friday, March 104612:00pmNo. 1 Towson vs. No. 9 Hampton87–65FloHoops72:30pmNo. 4 William & Mary vs. No. 12 Hofstra74–64586:00pmNo. 2 Drexel vs. No. 7 Monmouth59–6598:30pmNo. 3 Northeastern vs. No. 6 Stony Brook85–68 Semifinals – Saturday, March 116102:00pmNo. 1 Towson vs. No. 4 William & Mary76-59FloHoops114:30pmNo. 7 Monmouth vs. No. 3 Northeastern73-60 Championship – Sunday, March 127122:00pmNo. 1 Towson vs. No. 7 Monmouth55-80CBSSN *Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seed
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* denotes overtime game
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