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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.
These numbers would be surpassed by the national championship game, which was seen by an average of 9.9 million viewers, and peaked at 12.6 million—making it the most-watched women's college basketball game of all-time. [17] It was a 103% increase over the previous year's championship game, which was carried by ESPN in primetime. [15]
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 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.
As of the most recent college basketball season in 2023–24, 360 women's college basketball programs competed in NCAA Division I, including full D-I members and programs transitioning from a lower NCAA division (most from Division II and one from Division III) [1] Four schools (Bellarmine, Tarleton, UC San Diego, and Utah Tech) will complete transitions from Division II at the end of the 2023 ...
The top 25 highest scorers in NCAA Division I women's basketball history are listed below. While the NCAA's current three-division format has been in place since the 1973–74 season, [ 2 ] it did not sponsor women's sports until the 1981–82 school year; before that time, women's college sports were governed by the Association of ...
Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It was first played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large parts via women's college competitions, and has since spread globally. [1]
This is a list of college women's basketball coaches by number of career wins. The list includes coaches with at least 600 wins at the NCAA, [1] AIAW and NAIA [2] levels. Geno Auriemma, head coach of the UConn Huskies since 1985, is at the top of the list with 1,217 career wins.