Date | R | 主隊 v 客隊 | - |
---|---|---|---|
03/06 00:00 | 122 | 底特律 女子 v 羅伯特莫裏斯 女子 | 59-48 |
03/06 00:00 | - | UAB 女子 v 威奇托州 女子 | 65-68 |
03/06 00:00 | - | [56] 塔爾薩 女子 v 杜蘭 女子 [269] | 61-56 |
03/05 23:30 | - | [168] 東卡羅來納 女子 v 夏洛特 女子 [155] | 71-66 |
03/05 20:00 | 122 | [307] South Alabama 女子 v 卡羅萊納海岸 女子 [278] | 60-79 |
03/05 17:30 | 122 | [218] 德州州立 女子 v 佐治亞南方 女子 [215] | 70-72 |
03/05 02:00 | - | [67] 蒙塔納 女子 v 愛達荷州立 女子 [249] | 67-65 |
03/05 02:00 | - | 愛達荷汪達爾人 女子 v Portland State 女子 | 60-44 |
03/05 02:00 | - | 東華盛頓 女子 v Sacramento State 女子 | 72-59 |
03/05 01:00 | - | Weber State 女子 v Montana State 女子 | 65-67 |
03/05 01:00 | - | [54] 北亞利桑那 女子 v 北科羅拉多 女子 [165] | 67-61 |
03/04 23:30 | - | [175] 貝桑庫克曼 女子 v 格蘭布林州立 女子 [81] | 54-64 |
03/04 23:30 | - | 南方 女子 v 佛羅裏達農工 女子 | 67-61 |
03/04 23:30 | - | [294] 艾爾康州立 女子 v 德州南方 女子 [332] | 63-71 |
03/04 23:30 | - | [57] 傑克遜州 女子 v 布雷萊非農工 女子 [236] | 75-65 |
03/04 22:30 | - | Howard 女子 v 特拉華州 女子 | 61-43 |
03/04 22:30 | - | 諾福克州女子 v 馬裏蘭大學東岸 女子 | 52-40 |
03/04 22:30 | - | [207] NC 中部女子 v 摩根州 女子 [299] | 63-58 |
03/04 22:30 | - | 科平州女子 v 南卡羅來納州女子 | 65-33 |
03/04 00:00 | - | [232] 普渡 女子 v 密歇根 女子 [124] | 60-64 |
03/03 23:00 | - | [33] 弗吉尼亞理工 女子 v 弗吉尼亞 女子 [192] | 75-80 |
03/03 22:00 | - | [247] 德保羅 女子 v 維拉諾瓦 女子 [121] | 66-68 |
03/03 21:00 | - | 佛羅里達州立 女子 v 克萊姆森 女子 | 82-79 |
03/03 21:00 | - | [75] 杜克 女子 v 北卡羅來納 女子 [108] | 59-63 |
03/03 21:00 | - | [115] 阿肯色 女子 v 密西西比 女子 [54] | 43-87 |
03/03 21:00 | - | 伊利諾伊 女子 v 內布拉斯加 女子 | 74-73 |
03/03 20:00 | - | 德克薩斯A&M 女子 v 阿拉巴馬 女子 | 71-78 |
03/03 20:00 | - | 默里州 女子 v 印第安納州 女子 | 87-70 |
03/03 20:00 | - | [120] 馬里蘭 女子 v 印第安納 女子 [26] | 54-71 |
03/03 20:00 | - | 密西西比州 女子 v 密蘇裏 女子 | 90-75 |
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.