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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.
Thank Title IX for…the growing visibility of women's college basketball that has USA Today producing a pullout section for the women’s NCAA March Madness tournament" (McDonagh, Pappano, 2008, 109). [30] Professional women's basketball has been played in the United States. There have been several leagues, the most recent of which is the WNBA.
The history of basketball can be traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts.The sport was created by a physical education teacher named James Naismith, who in the winter of 1891 was given the task of creating a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that would prevent them from getting hurt.
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. [25]
The 2025 WAC women's basketball tournament is the postseason women's basketball tournament of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The tournament will be played from March 11–15, 2024 with the opening round at Burns Arena in St. George, Utah and the remaining rounds at the Orleans ...
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 NCAA Division 1 women's basketball tournament has taken place 42 times and was canceled 1 time because of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Out of the past 42 years, UConn and Tennessee have collectively taken 19 of those national titles. UConn has won 11 times and Tennessee has won 8.
The UConn Huskies women's basketball team obtained the longest winning streak in college basketball (both men's and women's), 111 straight wins, which started with a win against Creighton on December 23, 2014, and continued for 111 games until March 31, 2017, when they were beaten 66–64 on a last second shot in overtime by Mississippi State ...