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The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, [1] 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.
ESPN had planned to nationally televise all 63 games of the women's tournament for the first time ever. [1] However, on March 12, the NCAA announced that this tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] It was the first time the tournament had been canceled since its creation in 1982.
That game drew 12.3 million viewers, at the time the most ever for a women's college basketball game. [24] They won 71–69 over UConn in the national semifinal [ 25 ] – establishing a new viewership mark at 14.2 million viewers [ 26 ] – to reach the national championship game for the second year in a row.
South Carolina women's basketball is set to face No. 7 Utah in Uncasville, Connecticut, as one of six top-25 teams competing in the Basketball Hall of Fame Showcase.. The No. 1 Gamecocks (8-0 ...
The USA Basketball Women's National Team, [2] commonly known as Team USA, is governed by USA Basketball and competes in FIBA Americas. The team is by far the most successful in international women's basketball, having won 10 out of the 12 Olympic tournaments it has entered.
It was estimated that media rights to the women's tournament could be worth at least $81 million per-season (in comparison to the $34 million total of the current ESPN contract). The women's tournament be expanded to 68 teams, as with the men's tournament. The women's tournament adopt the same revenue distribution framework as the men's tournament.
The 2019 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 64 teams to determine the national champion for the 2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The 38th annual edition of the tournament began on March 22, and concluded with the championship game on April 7 at Amalie Arena in Tampa , Florida ...
The Ivy League became the first conference to cancel all winter sports for the 2020–21 season, including men's and women's basketball, due to COVID-19 concerns. [ 7 ] November 19 – Maryland Eastern Shore became the second MEAC program to opt out of all remaining 2020–21 sports, including men's and women's basketball, due to COVID-19 concerns.