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The 2009 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament commenced 21 March 2009 and concluded 7 April 2009 when the University of Connecticut Huskies defeated the Louisville Cardinals 76–54. Michigan State's upset over Duke in the second round would be the last time until 2023 that all four 1 seeds did not progress to at least the Sweet Sixteen.
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 inaugural tournament occurred at the conclusion of the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. Selections for the WBI are announced on Selection Monday . Prior to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic the field for the WBI consisted of a 16-team, single elimination divided into two regions with 8 seeded teams in each. [ 1 ]
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 ...
March 3, 2024 at 8:01 PM Another Southeastern Conference women’s basketball regular season has come to a close, so it’s time to look ahead to this week’s SEC Tournament bracket.
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.
This is a list of NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament bids by school, [1] at the conclusion of the 2024 conference tournaments. Schools whose names are italicized are no longer in Division I and can no longer be included in the tournament. The 2020 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was never played due to the COVID-19 ...
The first three rounds were played on campuses, with the semifinal and championship final played at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. [1] It was the inaugural edition of the postseason Women's Basketball Invitation Tournament. Illinois won the tournament, marking the program's first-ever postseason tournament championship. [2]