The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association women's basketball tournament is the annual conference women's basketball championship tournament for the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The tournament has been held annually since 1975. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records.
The winner receives the CIAA's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament.
Shaw have been the most successful team at the CIAA tournament, with eleven championships.
Results YearChampions 1975 Norfolk State (1) 1976 Shaw (1) 1977 Norfolk State (2) 1978 St. Augustine's (1) 1979 Fayetteville State (1) 1980 Virginia State (1) 1981 Virginia State (2) 1982 Virginia Union (1) 1983 Norfolk State (3) 1984 North Carolina Central (1) 1985 Hampton (1) 1986 Norfolk State (4) 1987 Hampton (2) 1988 Virginia State (3) 1989 Shaw (2) 1990 Virginia State (4) 1991 Norfolk State (5) 1992 Norfolk State (6) 1993 Norfolk State (7) 1994 Hampton (3) 1995 Norfolk State (8) 1996 Norfolk State (9) 1997 Bowie State (1) 1998 Bowie State (2) 1999 Bowie State (3) 2000 Livingstone (1) 2001 Fayetteville State (2) 2002 Virginia State (5) 2003 Shaw (3) 2004 Shaw (4) 2005 Shaw (5) 2006 Shaw (6) 2007 North Carolina Central (2) 2008 Shaw (7) 2009 Johnson C. Smith (1) 2010 Fayetteville State (3) 2011 Shaw (8) 2012 Shaw (9) 2013 Shaw (10) 2014 Shaw (11) 2015 Virginia State (6) 2016 Virginia Union (2) 2017 Johnson C. Smith (2) 2018 Virginia Union (3) 2019 Virginia Union (4) 2020 Fayetteville State (4) 2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2022 Lincoln (PA) (1) 2023 Elizabeth City State (1) 2024 Fayetteville State (5) 2025 Fayetteville State (6) 2026 Winston-Salem State (1)
Championship records School Titles Years Shaw 11 1976, 1989, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Norfolk State 9 1975, 1977, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 Fayetteville State 6 1979, 2001, 2010, 2020, 2024, 2025 Virginia State 6 1980, 1981, 1988, 1990, 2002, 2015 Virginia Union 4 1982, 2016, 2018, 2019 Bowie State 3 1997, 1998, 1999 Hampton 3 1985, 1987, 1994 North Carolina Central 2 1984, 2007 Johnson C. Smith 2 2009, 2017 Winston-Salem State 1 2026 Elizabeth City State 1 2023 Lincoln (PA) 1 2022 Livingstone 1 2000 St. Augustine's 1 1978 Bluefield State and Claflin have not yet won the CIAA tournament Chowan and Saint Paul's never won the tournament as CIAA members Schools highlighted in pink are former members of the CIAA
See also MEAC women's basketball tournament
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