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The 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was a 68-team single-elimination tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.
The championship was the third for South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, making her just the fifth coach to win three NCAA Division I women's basketball championships. [57] It was the third title in South Carolina program history; the team had never advanced past the national semifinal round prior to Staley's arrival. [ 56 ]
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 ...
NCAA Division I champions are the winners of annual top-tier competitions among American college sports teams. This list also includes championships classified by the NCAA as "National Collegiate", the organization's official branding of championship events open to members of more than one of the NCAA's three legislative and competitive divisions.
[9] [10] As part of a cycle that began in 2016, TBS televised the 2024 Final Four and the National Championship Game. This was the first tournament with Ian Eagle as the lead play-by-play announcer. For the first time since 1997, longtime studio host Greg Gumbel was not part of this year's March Madness coverage due to family health issues. [ 11 ]
The Chronicle’s back-to-back area player of the year, Woliczko also has experience with USA Basketball and played on the women’s U16 national team that won the 2023 FIBA Americas U16 championship.
The 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament beginning on March 20 and ended with the championship game at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 7.
There were moments of pure triumph, like South Carolina’s women’s basketball team winning a championship to cap a perfect 38-0 season. There were moments of agony, like Rory McIlroy losing the ...