Date | R | 主隊 v 客隊 | - |
---|---|---|---|
03/08 22:00 | 3 | [216] Saint Louis 女子 v VA聯邦 女子 [8] | 65-63 |
03/08 22:00 | 3 | [86] 杜克 女子 v 北卡羅萊納州立 女子 [22] | 51-54 |
03/08 22:00 | 3 | 緬因 女子 v UMass Lowell 女子 | 49-43 |
03/08 21:30 | 2 | 小石城 女子 v 馬丁田納西 女子 | 48-54 |
03/08 21:00 | 122 | [352] Xavier 女子 v 喬治城 女子 [92] | 40-62 |
03/08 20:00 | 3 | [94] 內布拉斯加 女子 v 密歇根州立 女子 [53] | 73-61 |
03/08 20:00 | 124 | 太平洋 女子 v 聖地亞哥 女子 | 72-66 |
03/08 20:00 | 3 | 奧多明尼 女子 v UL Monroe 女子 | 67-64 |
03/08 19:30 | 3 | [121] 田納西 女子 v 阿拉巴馬 女子 [49] | 83-61 |
03/08 19:30 | 124 | [84] TCU 女子 v Oklahoma State 女子 [208] | 68-66 |
03/08 19:00 | 2 | 南印地安那 女子 v 東伊利諾伊 女子 | 69-54 |
03/08 18:30 | 2 | 北卡格林波若 v 沃佛德 女子 | 72-62 |
03/08 18:30 | 3 | [106] 邁阿密 佛羅裏達 女子 v 弗吉尼亞理工 女子 [41] | 47-55 |
03/08 18:30 | 3 | 度克斯尼 女子 v 喬治梅森 女子 | 63-62 |
03/08 18:30 | 122 | 西東 女子 v 德保羅 女子 | 71-64 |
03/08 17:30 | 3 | [129] 馬里蘭 女子 v 俄亥俄州立 女子 [19] | 82-61 |
03/08 17:30 | 3 | 馬歇爾 女子 v 阿帕拉契州立 女子 | 116-74 |
03/08 17:00 | 124 | [172] 德州理工 女子 v 貝勒 女子 [38] | 60-71 |
03/08 17:00 | 3 | [107] 德克薩斯A&M 女子 v 南卡羅萊納 女子 [1] | 68-79 |
03/08 16:00 | 2 | 莫瑟爾 女子 v 查塔努加 女子 | 55-66 |
03/08 16:00 | 3 | 芝加哥洛約拉 女子 v 裏士滿 女子 | 54-70 |
03/08 16:00 | 3 | [52] 路易斯維爾 女子 v 聖母 女子 [43] | 68-77 |
03/08 16:00 | 122 | 巴特勒 女子 v Providence 女子 | 60-75 |
03/08 04:30 | 3 | [64] 猶他 女子 v UCLA 女子 [27] | 57-67 |
03/08 03:00 | - | [233] 長灘州女子 v 加利福尼亞大學聖巴巴拉分校 女子 [141] | 75-69 |
03/08 03:00 | - | 加州富爾頓 女子 v 加州河邊 女子 | 50-65 |
03/08 02:00 | 3 | [162] 亞利桑那 女子 v USC 女子 [34] | 62-65 |
03/08 02:00 | 122 | [248] 中佛羅裏達 女子 v 辛辛那提 女子 [223] | 62-67 |
03/08 02:00 | - | 猶他科技 女子 v 德克薩斯裏奧格蘭德河谷大學 女子 | 81-55 |
03/08 02:00 | - | 加利福尼亞浸會 女子 v UT Arlington 女子 | 91-75 |
The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship.
The tournament was preceded by the AIAW women's basketball tournament, which was organized by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1972 to 1982. Basketball was one of 12 women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981–82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the AIAW for sole governance of women's collegiate sports. The AIAW continued to conduct its established championship program in the same 12 (and other) sports; however, after a year of dual women's championships, the NCAA prevailed, while the AIAW disbanded.
As of 2022, the tournament follows the same format and selection process as its men's counterpart, with 32 automatic bids awarded to the champions of the Division I conferences, and 36 "at-large bids" extended by the NCAA Selection Committee, which are placed into four regional divisions and seeded from 1 to 16. The four lowest-seeded automatic bids, and the four lowest-seeded at-large bids, compete in the First Four games to advance to the 64-team bracket in the first round. The national semi-finals, branded as the Women's Final Four, are traditionally scheduled on the same weekend as the men's Final Four, but in a different host city. Presently, the Women's Final Four uses a Friday/Sunday scheduling, with its games occurring one day prior to the men's Final Four and championship, respectively.
Attendance and interest in the women's championship have grown over the years, especially from 2003 to 2016, when the final championship game was moved to the Tuesday following the Monday men's championship game. The tournament is often overshadowed by the more-prominent men's tournament; after a gender equality review following the 2021 tournament, the NCAA expanded it to the current 68-team format of the men's tournament and extended the "March Madness" branding to the tournament as well. The 2024 women's championship was the first to receive higher viewership than the men's championship the same year. Still, the tournament receives a smaller amount of funding from broadcast rights (which are held by ESPN, and are pooled with those of other NCAA Division I championships besides golf and men's basketball) and sponsorship (which are sold by CBS and Turner Sports) than the men's tournament.
With 11 national titles, the UConn Huskies hold the record for the most NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships, which included four straight championships from 2013 through 2016. The team had also made the semi-finals for 14 consecutive tournaments.