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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.
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.
The Albany 2 regional final between Iowa and LSU, a rematch of the previous year's national championship game drew the largest audience ever for a women's college basketball game as well as the most watched college basketball game in the 45-year history of ESPN. [4]
The 2012 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament began March 17 and concluded April 3, 2012. The Final Four was played at Pepsi Center [1] in Denver. [2] For only the second time in history, and the first time since 1989, all four of the number one seeds made it to the Final Four.
Tennessee continued its streak of making every NCAA women's basketball tournament at 32 consecutive appearances. Kansas made the regional semifinals for the second year in a row as a double-digit seed, UConn made it into the Final Four for the sixth consecutive year, the longest such streak, and Louisville became the first team seeded lower ...
“With a record-setting audience of 18.7 million viewers, Sunday’s Iowa-South Carolina title game was a fitting finale to the most-viewed ever NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament,” said ESPN ...
The UConn team entered the national championship game on a 77 winning streak. The last game they had lost, occurred in April 2008. It was against Stanford. [11] UConn was no stranger to low scoring halves in an NCAA game. There had been, up to this point, eleven halves of basketball in NCAA tournament history with twelve or fewer points.
ESPN’s April 1 telecast of the LSU-Iowa Elite 8 game that sent Iowa to the Final Four drew 12.3 million viewers, by far a women’s college hoops TV record. That game had extra heat as it was a ...