Wins for both of the top two remaining seeds, #1 CoLA Southwark Pride and #2 Endeavour Ipswich Basketball, over the weekend sends both teams heading back to Manchester for a repeat of last year's showpiece.
We take a look back at both of the weekend's match-ups below, with links to live stats at the bottom of the page.
Defending playoff champs CoLA Southwark Pride booked a spot in their fifth-straight final following a 69-55 victory over #4 seeds Anglia Ruskin University.
Winners in 2023/24 and 2021/22, plus runners-up in 2022/23 and 2020/21, CoLA extended their rich vein of form in the competition, with the hosts being led by a 21-point, 11-rebound double-double from Ayla Habbal.
A largely even contest through the first two and a half quarters, CoLA then pressed home their advantage using a 21-6 third, stifling ARU's offence to create a double-digit advantage they'd maintain the rest of the way.
Winning the rebound battle 64-40 also helped Pride control the contest, with Adaora Dioramma (15pts, 8reb) and Chandera Jones-Aryeh (11pts, 6reb) both contributing in that department.
Ruskin's season ends with yet another defeat against a top-three side for the season, a clear indicator of where they can look to improve if they're to take the next step in 2025/26.
Both standouts from last weekend's win over Bristol, Tia Freeman (12pts, 7reb) and Vicky Gray (7pts, 5reb, 4ast), were largely kept in check, as was influential forward Izabelle Booth (7pts, 3/14 FGs).
That left Nadege Talva (18pts) to top score off the bench for the visitors, who bow out at the final hurdle.
Endeavour Ipswich Basketball survived a tough home encounter with Brent Bulls, coming through as 80-77 winners.
A 31-11 opening frame provided the hosts with a sizable early advantage, but the Bulls refused to go quietly and slowly whittled down their deficit the longer the game wore on.
Buoyed by the return of standout guard Judit Fritz, Brent managed to pull the difference between the teams to five points or less multiple times in the second half, but each time, Ipswich regrouped and found a way to keep themselves in front.
Key to that resistance was the continued late-season form of guard Hannah Gray, who followed up last week's Player of the Week outing with another sublime performance, dropping a game-high 38 points that contained six triples to go with 14 rebounds.
That production allowed Harriet Welham (24pts, 13reb) to go about her business with another impressive double-double, giving the visitors too much work to do.
Fritz (21pts, 6reb) led the way for her side, with Lindsey Cleary (16pts, 13reb) still put up good numbers despite struggling with foul trouble and playing less than 30 minutes in the contest.
Rochelle Davids (16pts, 16reb, 6ast, 5stl) provided a sizable double-double in defeat.
6:15pm - CoLA Southwark Pride 69-55 Anglia Ruskin University - LIVE STATS
2pm - Endeavour Ipswich Basketball 80-77 Brent Bulls - LIVE STATS
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Main image credit - Richard Leach
