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NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Women's Division I Basketball Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1. The NCAA tournament was preceded by the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, which was held annually from 1.
Basketball was one of 1. NCAA championship program for the 1. NCAA engaged in battle with the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women for sole governance of women's collegiate sports. The AIAW continued to conduct its established championship program in the same 1. NCAA prevailed, while the AIAW disbanded. Attendance and interest in the Women's Division I Championship have grown over the years, especially from 2. Tuesday following the Monday men's championship game.
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From 1. 98. 2 to 1. Women's Final Four was usually played on the Friday before the Men's Final Four or the hours before the men played on the final Saturday of the tournament.
The final was usually played the Sunday afternoon following the Men's Final Four; starting 2. Sunday evening. The tournament bracket is made up of champions from each Division I conference, which receive automatic bids. The remaining slots are at- large bids, with teams chosen by an NCAA selection committee.
The selection process and tournament seedings are based on several factors, including team rankings, win- loss records and Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) data. Unlike the men's tournament, there are only 3. The women's tournament, like the men's, is staged in a single elimination format, and is part of the media and public frenzy known colloquially as March Madness or The Big Dance. All 6. 3 games have been broadcast on television since 2. ESPN and ESPN2. Of these teams, 3. Since the Ivy League does not conduct a post- season tournament, the regular- season conference champion receives an automatic bid.
The remaining teams are granted . Marilyn Mc. Neil, vice president/director of athletics at Monmouth University is the current chairwoman. On March 1, 2. 01. Bowling Green State University's director of intercollegiate athletics, Greg Christopher, was appointed chair of the NCAA Division I Women. The top- seeded team in each region plays the #1. Number of teams, and seeding. Edit. The first NCAA women's basketball tournament was held in 1.
The AIAW also held a basketball tournament in 1. AIAW champion Louisiana Tech, decided to participate in the NCAA tournament. The championship consisted of 3. Since 1. 99. 4 6.
Prior to 1. 99. 6, seeding was conducted on a regional basis. The top teams (eight in the 3. The remaining teams were then seeded based on their geographic region. Teams were moved outside of its geographic region only if it was necessary to balance the bracket, or if the proximity of an opponent outside of its region would be comparable and a more competitive game would result.
In 1. 99. 3, all teams except for the top four were explicitly unseeded. The regional seeding resumed in 1. In 1. 99. 6, seeds were assigned on a national basis using an . Due to venue availability, in some cases, the lower seed hosted, or the game was played at a neutral site. Teams were allowed to play at home, if hosting. Between 2. 00. 5 and 2.
Selection process. Edit. A special selection committee appointed by the NCAA determines which 6. Because of the automatic bids, only 3. Women's NCAA Division I basketball champions. Edit. Year. Winner. Score. Opponent. Venue.
Other Semifinalists. Louisiana Tech. 76. Louis, Missouri)Connecticut & Southwest Missouri State. Connecticut. 82. Pete Times Forum (Tampa, Florida)LSU & Connecticut.
Connecticut. 76. Louis, Missouri)Stanford & Oklahoma. Connecticut. 53. During that time, Connecticut won eight championships, and Notre Dame won one. Following the three- way 2. FBS schools and the remaining schools, the conference legally changed its name to the American Athletic Conference. Three schools (among them Notre Dame) left for the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2. Big Ten in 2. 01. FBS schools retained the Big East name.
However, the current Big East now maintains the history of the original conference in all sports that it sponsors, including women's basketball. The American no longer claims any of the original Big East's competition history, even in the two sports that it sponsors and the current Big East does not (football and women's rowing).^Known as the Pacific- 1. Conference, or Pac- 1.
NCAA Final Four locations. Edit. NCAA Final Four locations (hover over city to see arena)Tournament trends. Edit. Top- ranked teams. Edit. Since the women's tournament began in 1.
Louisiana Tech. 19. USC1. 98. 6: Texas. Tennessee. 19. 95: Connecticut.
Tennessee. 19. 99: Purdue. Connecticut. 20. 02: Connecticut. Connecticut. 20. 09: Connecticut. Connecticut. 20. 12: Baylor. Connecticut. 20. 15: Connecticut. Connecticut. Champions excluded the next year. Edit. Only once has the reigning champion (the previous year's winner) not made it to the tournament the next year.
Since 1. 98. 2, at least one #1 seed has made the Final Four every year. Under Pat Summitt Tennessee has been seeded #1 a record 2. Connecticut coached by Geno Auriemma is second with 1. All #1 seeds have made it to the Final Four thrice: 1. Auburn, Louisiana Tech, Maryland, Tennessee.
Baylor, Connecticut, Notre Dame, Stanford. Connecticut, Maryland, Notre Dame, South Carolina. The championship game has matched two #1 seeds 1. USC beat Louisiana Tech.
Texas beat USC1. 98. Tennessee beat Auburn.
Tennessee beat Virginia. Connecticut beat Tennessee. Connecticut beat Tennessee. Connecticut beat Oklahoma.
Connecticut beat Tennessee. Connecticut beat Stanford. Baylor beat Notre Dame.
Connecticut beat Notre Dame. Connecticut beat Notre Dame. Three teams have beaten three #1 seeds during the course of a tournament (the largest number of such teams that can be faced): 1. Tennessee (beat Auburn, Long Beach State, Louisiana Tech)1.
Louisiana Tech (beat Auburn, Tennessee, Texas)2. Baylor (beat LSU, Michigan State, North Carolina)Prior to the expansion of the tournament to 6. Sweet Sixteen with three exceptions. Notably, the first two times this occurred were at the hands of the same school: 1.
East #1 seed Virginia lost to #8 seed James Madison. East #1 seed Penn State lost to #8 seed James Madison. Midwest #1 seed Iowa lost to #8 seed Southwest Missouri State. High seeds. Edit. Sweet Sixteen. Low seeds. Edit. Lowest seeds to reach each round since the expansion to 6. Second Round: #1.
John's in 2. 01. 2 (2 points, 6. Overtime games: #1. Seed. UTSA lost to Baylor in 2. UTSA is the only #1.
Seed. Butler lost to Iowa in 1. First- round games. Edit. Since the expansion to 6. The #1 seed is 9. They beat Oklahoma, Louisville, and Stanford, respectively. In 2. 01. 2, Baylor entered the tournament 3. Notre Dame for the national title, and ended the season 4.
The Lady Bears became the first team in NCAA college basketball history, for either women or men, to win 4. Notably, Louisiana Tech went 4. This was during the AIAW era for women's basketball. In 2. 01. 4, Connecticut (3.
Two other teams have played the Final Four in their home cities, and seven others have played the Final Four in their home states. The only team to play on its home court was Texas in 1. Frank Erwin Special Events Center. Old Dominion enjoyed nearly as large an advantage in 1. Final Four was played at the Norfolk Scope in its home city of Norfolk, Virginia, but also lost its semifinal. The Scope has never been the Lady Monarchs' regular home court. ODU has always used on- campus arenas, first the ODU Fieldhouse and since 2.
Ted Constant Convocation Center. The following year, USC won the national title at Pauley Pavilion, the home court of its Los Angeles arch- rival UCLA. Of the other teams to play in their home states, Stanford (1. Notre Dame (2. 01. Western Kentucky (1. Penn State (2. 00. Missouri State (2.
LSU (2. 00. 4), and Baylor (2. Championship margins. Edit. Overtime games in a championship game.
The 2. 01. 6 UConn team won every game by more than 2. Top 8 largest point differentials accumulated over the entire tournament by tournament champion.
Notably, Louisiana Tech's differential is prior to the expansion of 6. The results for each year are summarised in the table below. Fullerton. 1 ! 1. Cal St. Northridge. California. 1 ! 1. S2 ! 2. 5 ! F2 ! 2. Campbell. 1 ! 1. Canisius.
Central Mich. 1 ! Charlotte. 1 ! 1. Chattanooga. 1 ! 1. Cheyney. 6 ! R3 ! S5 ! FCincinnati. Clemson. 1 ! 1. 2 ! S3 ! S4 ! E2 ! 2.
S2 ! 2. 2 ! 2. 1 ! Cleveland St. 1 ! Colgate. 1 ! 1. Colorado.
E3 ! S4 ! E2 ! 2. S2 ! 2. 4 ! E3 ! S1 ! Colorado St. 2 ! 2. S2 ! 2. 1 ! 1. Connecticut. F2 ! 2. 1 ! 1. 4 !
E7 ! C5 ! F4 ! E4 ! E3 ! S7 ! C5 ! F7 ! C7 ! C7 ! C3 ! S4 ! E4 ! E5 ! F7 ! C7 !
C5 ! F5 ! F7 ! C7 ! C7 ! CCoppin St. 1 ! Cornell. 1 ! 1. Creighton. Dartmouth. 0 ! O1 ! Dayton. 2 ! 2. 1 ! EDelaware. 1 ! 1. SDelaware St. 1 !
Denver. 1 ! 1. De. Paul. 2 ! 2. 1 ! 1.
S1 ! 1. 1 ! 1. 1 ! S2 ! 2. 1 ! 1. 3 ! S2 ! 2. Detroit. 1 ! Drake. 4 ! E1 ! 1. S1 ! 1. Drexel. 1 ! Duke. 2 ! 2. 2 ! 2. E6 ! R3 ! S3 ! S5 !
F5 ! F4 ! E4 ! E6 ! R3 ! S3 ! S2 ! 2. E4 ! E4 ! E4 ! E2 ! SEast Carolina. 1 !
East Tenn. St. 1 ! Eastern Ill. 1 ! 1. Eastern Ky. 1 ! 1. Eastern Mich. 1 ! Eastern Wash. 1 ! Evansville. 1 ! 1.
Fairfield. 1 ! 1. FGCU1 ! 1. 1 ! 1. FIU1 ! 1. 2 ! 2. 1 ! Fla. Atlantic. 1 ! Florida. 2 ! 2. 1 ! E3 ! S1 ! 1. 2 ! 2.
Florida A& M1 ! Florida St. 1 ! 1. S2 ! 2. 2 ! 2. 4 ! E2 ! 2. 2 ! 2. 2 ! EFordham. 1 ! 1. 1 ! Fresno St. 1 ! 1.
Furman. 1 ! 1. 1 ! Ga. Southern. 1 ! Gardner- Webb. 1 ! George Washington. S2 ! 2. 4 ! E2 ! 2. S3 ! S1 ! 1. Georgetown. S2 ! 2. 3 ! S2 ! 2.
Georgia. 1 ! 1. 5 ! F4 ! E6 ! R3 ! S3 !
S3 ! S2 ! 2. 2 ! 2. E2 ! 2. 5 ! F6 ! R4 !
E1 ! 1. 5 ! F4 ! E2 ! S4 ! E3 ! S3 ! S3 ! S2 ! 2. 1 ! 1. 3 ! S3 ! S1 ! 1. 4 ! E1 ! Georgia St. 1 ! 1. Georgia Tech. 1 !
S1 ! 1. Gonzaga. 1 ! S4 ! E3 ! S1 ! 1. SGrambling. 1 ! 1. Green Bay. 1 ! 1. S2 ! 2. 1 ! 1. 1 ! Hampton. 1 ! 1. 1 ! Hartford. 1 ! 1. 1 !
Harvard. 1 ! 1. 1 ! Hawaii. 1 ! 1. 2 ! Holy Cross. 1 ! 1. Houston. 2 ! 2. 1 ! Howard. 1 ! 1. 1 ! Idaho. 1 ! 1. 1 ! Idaho St. 1 ! 1. 1 !