CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Women's Basketball will face Michigan State in the first round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament. The Crimson received a No. 10 seed in Region 1 – Spokane, while the Spartans enter the field of 68 as the No. 7 seed.
 
When the teams meet on Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina (gametime TBA), it will mark the first time in series history. The winner will move on to face the winner of 2-seed NC State and 15th-seeded Vermont.
 
The Crimson earned the Ivy League's automatic bid to the Big Dance after defeating top-seeded Columbia, 74-71, for the conference crown on Saturday night in Providence, Rhode Island. Harvard claimed its 12^th Ivy League title in program history, but its first of the tournament variety.
 
Harvard will make its seventh NCAA Tournament appearance in program history and first since 2007. The NCAA bid also marks the 17^th time the Crimson has moved on to the postseason and the first since 2023, when it advanced to the WNIT Great 8 in The Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach for Harvard Women's Basketball Carrie Moore's first season at Harvard.  
 
Harvard's 10-seed is the highest in program history. Prior to this season, its best seed was a 13 back in 2002. The Crimson has also been a 14 (1996, 2003), 15 (2007) and a 16 seed (1997, 1998) in its NCAA Tournament history.
 
Michigan State, meanwhile, finished its regular season at 21-9 and went 11-7 in the Big Ten.
 
The Crimson enters the NCAA tournament having won four straight games, pushing its record to 24-4 (11-3 Ivy). The 24 wins are the most in Harvard single-season history, surpassing the previous record of 23, established in 1997-98. The '97-98 team made the NCAA Tournament as a No. 16 seed and became the first team to upset a No. 1 seed when it defeated Stanford in Maples Pavilion, 71-67.