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The women's basketball poll began during the 1976–77 season, and was initially compiled by Mel Greenberg and published by The Philadelphia Inquirer.At first, it was a poll of coaches conducted via telephone, where coaches identified top teams and a list of the Top 20 teams was produced.
The 42nd edition of the tournament began on March 20, 2024, and concluded with the championship game on April 7, 2024 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio. Big South champion Presbyterian , Southland champion Texas A&M–Corpus Christi , WAC champion California Baptist and at-large bid Columbia all made their NCAA tournament debuts.
The 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.It determined the champion of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and was contested by the Iowa Hawkeyes from the Big Ten Conference and the South Carolina Gamecocks from the Southeastern Conference.
The 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 4, 2024. The regular season will end on March 16, 2025, with the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament beginning with the first four on March 19 and ending with championship game at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on April 6.
This is a list of qualifying teams in the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.A total of 68 teams are entered into the tournament. [1] Thirty-two of the teams qualified via automatic bids, earned by winning their conference tournaments, while the remaining 36 teams were via "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
The 2024 Women's NCAA Final Four will feature five top-100 players from the 2020 recruiting class. Historic 2020 women's basketball recruiting class included Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark
The team with the best regular-season record in each conference receives the number one seed in each tournament, with tiebreakers used as needed in the case of ties for the top seeding. Unless otherwise noted, the winners of these tournaments received automatic invitations to the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
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 ...