W&M Women’s Basketball Culminates Historic Season with Championship Banner Raising and Ring Ceremony

W&M Women’s Basketball Hosts Banner Raising and Ring Ceremony in Honor of Historic 2025 Champio…

WILLIAMSBURG — In one last celebration of last season’s success, the William & Mary women’s basketball team received its championship rings and unveiled the CAA Conference Championship and NCAA March Madness tournament banners at Kaplan Arena.

During homecoming weekend, Tribe alumni, William & Mary leadership, family, and fans came out to celebrate the 2024-25 women’s basketball team.

Entering the CAA Conference tournament, the Tribe was ranked as the No. 9 seed. With the ranking, the team played four games in four days to earn a spot in the championship game against Campbell University. The Tribe overtook the Camels by just 3 points, winning the game 66-63. With the win, they earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

In the NCAA tourney, the Tribe once again entered as an underdog, having to participate in a play-in game against High Point University. Another heart-pumping contest, the Tribe won by 6 points with a final score of 69-63. The victory was the first March Madness win in school history.

In the following game, the Tribe was ultimately ousted from the tournament by No. 1-seeded University of Texas.  However, the 2024-25 team still etched itself into Tribe Athletics history as the first William & Mary basketball team — men’s or women’s — to advance to the NCAA March Madness tournament.

Coach Erin Dickerson-Davis, who entered her third season as the head coach of Tribe women’s basketball in 2024, spoke during the ceremony. She acknowledged that the 2024-25 season was one for the record books and how it also put things into perspective for all Tribe teams in the future.

“We applied a championship mindset to everything that we did. We wanted to believe in something bigger than ourselves; we wanted to set a standard. This day represents all the long days and late nights. It represents the tears, the laughs, and the moments that nobody else saw. It represents what it truly means to fall down seven times and get up eight. You showed the world what William & Mary basketball is all about. You made everybody watching believe in what we are about,” Dickerson-Davis said.

William & Mary President Katherine Rowe, with green and gold strands in her hair, also spoke during the ceremony, highlighting how this championship will continue to influence the players’ lives far beyond their time at William & Mary.

“Winning a championship is a very, very rare thing. And this victory is yours for always,” Rowe said. “You know what goes into this and you know what it took. You put that effort in, you took us there, you took each other there. I couldn’t be prouder to be here with you and we all know that this is just the beginning.”

The 2025-26 Tribe women’s basketball team is gearing up for the new season, with its first home game set for Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. For more information on the team, visit TribeAthletics.com.