most ncaa women's basketball championships

The first NCAA women's basketball tournament was held in 1982. Attendance and interest in the women's championship have grown over the years, especially from 2003 to 2016, when the final championship game was moved to the Tuesday following the Monday men's championship game. [44] In the National semifinals played at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa UConn lost to Stanford, ending its season with a 362 record. [11], In Auriemma's 6th season (199091) the program broke through on the national scene, again capturing the Big East regular season and Tournament titles, and earning a #3 seed in the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament, its highest seed up to then. [2], The UConn Huskies are the most successful women's basketball program in the nation, having won a record 11 NCAA Division I National Championships and a women's record four in a row, from 2013 through 2016,[3] plus over 50 conference regular season and tournament championships. Throughout the regular season and the Big East tournament, UConn's closest win was against Stanford, by 12 points. [3] The team had also made the semi-finals for 14 consecutive tournaments. Smallest margin of victory in a championship game: 1 point, North Carolina 60, Louisiana Tech 59 (1994), Biggest margin of victory in a championship game: 33 points. America East Conference commissioner Amy Huchthausen argued that the ESPN contract "provides a measure of financial certainty, but it does not provide women's basketball (or any of the other sports, for that matter) an incentive to grow". The following year, USC won the national title at Pauley Pavilion, the home court of its Los Angeles arch-rival UCLA. The #8 seed is 5355 against the #9 seed (.491). In 2022 NCAA tournament, in the Bridgeport Region UConn beat the 15th seed Mercer, 7th seed UCF, 3rd seed Indiana and the 1st seed, Nc State to reach the final four for the 14th consecutive year. [38], In the 200506 season, UConn showed some signs of improvement, winning the Big East tournament and beating Georgia in the Sweet Sixteen thanks to a fadeaway 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left by senior Barbara Turner. Notably, Louisiana Tech's differential is prior to the expansion of 64 teams and the addition of one more round of play. [62] In 2015, Princeton entered the tournament 300, but lost in the second round to Maryland. Twenty UConn players have been selected in the first round of WNBA drafts. [28], Auriemma pulled off another huge recruiting coup when he convinced All-American guard Diana Taurasi to travel across country to attend Connecticut. UConn has also been one of the leaders in women's basketball attendance; the team plays its home games at both the Harry A. 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Wooden award - ESPN", "Connecticut Sun select Connecticut Huskies' Tina Charles at No. The remaining teams were then seeded based on their geographic region. [25], Many people weighed in on the decision on both national and local levels. The 201112 season would inevitably be a new era after Maya Moore's graduation. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [21], In data issued by the NCAA in 2021, it was stated that 15.9% of the value of the contract was allocated to the women's tournament, or approximately $6.1 million annually. [60] Moriah Jefferson finished with a program-record 659 assists and a back-to-back Nancy Lieberman Award as best point guard in the nation. Connecticut defeated Maryland 8158, while Notre Dame narrowly beat South Carolina, 6665, in the semifinals. [61] With their eleventh championship win in 2016, the UConn Huskies have tied the UCLA Bruins men's team for most college basketball championships, and became the first Division I women's basketball team to win four straight national championships. UConn fans booed Randall the rest of the game and Tennessee fans later gave her the nickname "Boo. Led by juniors Stewart and Jefferson and senior Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, UConn quickly recovered winning every other season game, including a 7658 win against rival Notre Dame. Branded athletically as "UConn" since the 201314 season. [48] It was the only game in the Huskies' 78-game winning streak that was won by fewer than 10 points. [13][14], In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press on the day of the 2023 national championship, new NCAA president Charlie Baker implicated that the media rights to the women's basketball tournament may be sold separately in the next rights cycle, stating that "we do have an opportunity to put it out separately, and we're going to work really hard to make sure that those student-athletes, those schools, those programs get what I describe as what they should get. Bascom had an immediate impact on the UConn program: in 1989 she won the Big East Player of the Year award as a sophomore (she also won the award in her junior and senior years) and led UConn to its first Big East regular season and Tournament title, along with its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance; the tournament ended in a first round loss. Then, the non-FBS football playing members of the Big East (Georgetown, Villanova, Providence, DePaul, Marquette, Seton Hall, St. John's), known colloquially as the "Catholic 7", left to form their own conference, taking the conference name with them. From 2022, the tournament will involve 68 teams, matching the size of the D-I men's tournament. 5 Saint Mary's 55 | Watch highlights No. Taurasi was the third basketball player to receive this final honor, after former UConn star Rebecca Lobo and Tennessee star Chamique Holdsclaw. In comparison, the contract for the men's tournament is valued at over $700 million annually. UConn trailed for the entire game and lost for the first time since their April 6, 2008 Final Four appearance (also against the Cardinal). UConn started the game with its worst first half in school history by scoring only 12 points; only 11 teams in tournament history have been held to 12 points or less in the first half: three of them were against UConn teams, and two of them (Southern and Temple) just days earlier in the 2010 Tournament. Maya Moore and Tina Charles played little more than half the minutes of every game, with Moore averaging one point per minute played, and the team outscoring its opponents by an average of 47 points. UConn completed their sixth undefeated season winning the 11th overall Championship (all-time record for both men's and women's college basketball) and 4th in a row (also a record for women's college basketball). The tournament is split into four regional tournaments, and each regional has teams seeded from 1 to 16, with the committee ostensibly making every region as comparable to the others as possible. Of the other teams to play in their home states, Stanford (1992) won the national title; Notre Dame (2011) lost in the championship game; and Western Kentucky (1986), Penn State (2000), Missouri State (2001), LSU (2004), and Baylor (2010) lost in the semifinals. 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[10] As, by definition, a team would have to win its conference tournament, and thus secure an automatic bid to the tournament, to be undefeated in a season, the only way a team could finish undefeated and not reach the tournament is if the team is banned from postseason play. UConn went unbeaten through the Conference regular season and Tournament and easily advanced into the NCAA Tournament; in the regional final against Virginia a 4-points win in their closest game of the year opened the doors of the Final Four at the Target Center in Minneapolis. On December 7, 2018, UConn announced that the #50 worn by Rebecca Lobo would be permanently retired, effective with ceremonies to be held during the Huskies' final 201819 home game on March 2, 2019. [51] That game, however, was largely a warm-up match for their biggest test of the season, a December 30 matchup at the powerhouse Stanford Cardinal. First Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Notre Dame defected to the Atlantic Coast Conference, with Louisville announcing later they would follow in 2014. UConn finished the regular season undefeated and established a 70-game winning streak, shattering the previous mark of 54 set by Louisiana Tech; the streak ended in the Big East championship game loss to Villanova. The Huskies of Honor is a program recognizing the most significant figures in UConn history, with plaques in Gampel Pavilion commemorating the inductees. [58], In 2015 UConn landed another top recruit in #1 High School prospect Katie Lou Samuelson; she quickly earned a spot in the starting five alongside sophomore Kia Nurse and seniors Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck. 2 and No. 2 Notre Dame. UConn defeated Tennessee 7766 in front of a sold-out crowd in a game televised on ESPN and soon afterwards was ranked No. Conference regular season and conference tournament champion The first season for the highly ranked class in 199899 was up and down and featured many injuries: Sue Bird tore her ACL and was lost for the season after only 10 games. Their 89th win came at home against #20 Florida State to set the college basketball record for most consecutive wins, previously held by the UCLA men's team. Women's NCAA Division I basketball champions. In 2017, UConn entered the tournament 320, but lost in the Final Four to. The NCAA tournament has undergone dramatic expansion since its first edition in 1982, and only one unbeaten team has failed to qualify for the tournamentCalifornia Baptist in 2021, which was 240 after winning the Western Athletic Conference Tournament. The #5 seed is 8523 against the #12 seed (.787). In 1998, Tennessee (330) and Liberty (280) both entered the tournament unbeaten; Liberty lost in the first round to Tennessee, which went on to beat Louisiana Tech for the national title and ended the season 390. UConn beat Toledo 8180 at Gampel Pavilion in the opening round game, with Bascom scoring a team NCAA tournament single-game record 39 points, and moved on to the regionals at The Palestra in Auriemma's hometown of Philadelphia. LSU beats Iowa to win its first NCAA womens basketball "[27] The 199899 season ended in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA Tournament, where UConn lost 6458 to Iowa State, falling short of reaching the Final Four for the third consecutive time. In 1986, Texas entered the tournament 300, beat USC for the national title, and ended the season 340. Taken together during the three years 20052007, UConn never made a Final Four, something that had become almost routine (17 final fours in 22 years from 1995 to 2016). Who Has the Most NCAA Basketball Championships? "[36], Taurasi received many personal accolades at UConn including the 2003 and 2004 Naismith College Player of the Year awards, the 2003 Wade Trophy, the 2003 Associated Press Women's College Basketball Player of the Year award, the 2003 USBWA Women's National Player of the Year award and the 2004 Best Female Athlete ESPY Award. In the 1999 meeting at Gampel Pavilion, Tennessee prevailed again. After the end of the NCAA tournament, the Associated Press selects a Most Outstanding Player. Conference regular season champion Leading up to the Final Four in San Antonio, UConn dominated teams from Southern, Temple, Iowa State and Florida State. The longest streak, 111 straight wins, started with a win against Creighton University on November 23, 2014, and ended on March 31, 2017 when a buzzer-beater at the end of overtime caused a 6664 loss in the 2017 NCAA Final Four to Mississippi State. The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament 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. [82] UConn's announcement did not make it clear whether both numbers would be retired across both men's and women's programs, but a university spokesperson clarified that the retirements applied only to the teams that Lobo and Allen competed for, meaning that #50 remains available in men's basketball and #34 in women's. By Charlie Creme Updated: 4/18/2023 at 9:00 a.m. The final, since 2023, is played the Sunday afternoon following the Men's Final Four; from 2017 to 2019, 2021 and 2022, Sunday evening. Maya Moore was also a brilliant college student: she graduated with a 3.7 GPA, earning the Elite 88 Award, and was named Cosida Academic All-America First-Team in 2009, 2010 and 2011, Cosida Academic All-America of the Year in 2010 and 2011 (1st player to ever repeat) and All-sports Academic All-America of the Year in 2011. In 2010 Sports Illustrated selected the top 25 sports franchises of the decade 20002009. Lobo graduated in 1995 receiving countless accolades: the Naismith College Player of the Year award, the Wade Trophy, the Associated Press Women's College Basketball Player of the Year award, the USBWA Women's National Player of the Year award, the Honda-Broderick Cup, the Best Female Athlete ESPY Award (first basketball player ever), the Associated Press Athlete of the Year (second basketball player after Sheryl Swoopes), the NCAA Woman of the Year Award, the Academic All-America of the Year and also All-sports Academic All-America of the Year. In 1993, Vermont entered the tournament 280, but lost in the first round to Rutgers. The selection process and tournament seedings are based on several factors, including team rankings, winloss records, and NET data..mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}, Since 2022, 68 teams qualify for the tournament played in March and April. [75][76][77] In his astonishing career Auriemma has won more than 25 different national Coach of the Year awards and was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. [30] As a consequence, Taurasi had to play a much larger role than anticipated in the NCAA Tournament. Women's Basketball Statistics - NCAA.org The LSU Tigers defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes 102-85 Sunday to win the programs first NCAA womens basketball national championship in Dallas, Texas. UConn also signed a landmark deal during the season with Connecticut Public Television to broadcast their games.[18]. Moore was named the Tournament Most Outstanding Player, to go along with her second straight Wade Trophy award and Academic All-America of the Year award. The Huskies won 18 tournaments in 31 years. [24], Following major media criticism of inequities between the 2021 men's and women's tournaments, the NCAA commissioned a comprehensive gender equity review of its championships by the law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink. Since 1982, at least one #1 seed has made the Final Four every year. Stewart finished with 2,676 points (2nd Husky ever), 1,179 rebounds (4th Husky ever), 426 assists and 414 blocked shots (1st Husky ever), and was a #1 pick in 2016 WNBA draft. The Huskies also became the first unbeaten team in NCAA history (all divisions, men or women) to win 35 games in a season. [57] Breanna Stewart was named the AP Player of the year, only the third time in history a sophomore has won the honor. Margin of 10 points: Louisiana Tech (1982), Tennessee (1987 & 1989), Purdue (1999), UConn (2000, 2002, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016), and Baylor (2012) are teams to win every game in the tournament by 10 points or more on their way to a championship. One exception is Cal Baptist, who was excluded from the 2021 tournament as a transitional Division I member, despite a 240 record. Sales then held the school scoring record. The #4 seed is 1017 against the #13 seed (.935). At the same time, the Huskies announced that the #34 worn by Ray Allen, a 2018 Naismith Hall inductee, would be retired by UConn men's basketball, with ceremonies held during the season's final men's home game on March 3, 2019. Led by upperclassmen Shea Ralph, Kelly Schumacher, Svetlana Abrosimova and the TASS Force (the K was dropped when Keirsten Walters had to give up basketball due to knee problems), UConn went through the regular season with a 271 record, their only loss being a single-point defeat to Tennessee at homeUConn had beaten Tennessee earlier in the season in Knoxville, and this was the first year the teams met twice. NCAA In the Championship Game UConn defeated Louisville 7654 behind Charles' 25 points and 19 boards, ending the season with a perfect 390 record (with every victory by at least 10 points, a record of its own) and sixth national title.[46]. This season also saw the birth of one of the greatest rivalries in college sports, the UConn-Tennessee rivalry, that began when the two teams met for the first time on Martin Luther King Day at Gampel Pavilion. [70] They lost to the number one overall seed South Carolina 64-49. UConn was a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, but eventually lost to LSU in the regional final to end the season with a 324 record. Duke biggest winner in latest D1Baseball rankings, Enter your information to receive emails about offers, promotions from NCAA.com and our partners. 1 are shown with double underline, and 12 teams seeded between No. For each season, the 4 teams seeded No. WebThe UConn Huskies are the most successful women's basketball program in the nation, having won a record 11 NCAA Division I National Championships and a women's The Women's Final Four and championship remained exclusive to ESPN. "[25] Interest in Caitlin Clark's tournament run had led to record viewership of Iowa's Women's Final Four and championship games, which both set records for ESPN/ABC.[21][26]. Prior to that final championship, her coach, Geno Auriemma, predicted his team's likelihood of winning with the statement, "We have Diana, and you don't. The Huskies are trailed by Tennessee (eight), Baylor and Stanford (three) and Louisiana Tech, Notre The remaining teams of the former Big East (Connecticut and Cincinnati) joined the new American Athletic Conference (The American or AAC), thus ending the UConnNotre Dame rivalry in conference tournaments. With 11 national titles, the UConn Huskies hold the record for the most NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships, which included four straight championships from 2013 through 2016. From 2003 to 2014, sixteen predetermined sites were selected for first and second-round games. In 2018, UConn entered the tournament 320, but lost in the Final Four to Notre Dame, ending their 36-game winning streak to finish 361. Notre Dame, led by junior star Skylar Diggins, beat the Huskies twice in the regular season, but UConn was able to reverse the roles in the Big East tournament Championship Game; the win was the school's 15th conference title, as well as the 800th career win for coach Geno Auriemma. Connecticut returned every key player and added Duke's transfer Azur Stevens[67] and nation top ranked recruit Megan Walker; the team easily reached the Final Four with a 360 record that included solid wins over Stanford, Notre Dame, Louisville and South Carolina. 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. [22][23] Based on average viewership, Emily Caron and Eben Novy-Williams of Sportico estimated that the women's tournament could fetch at least $20 million per-year if its media rights were sold separately. ESPN announced the 2023 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball national championship averaged 9.9 million viewers, becoming the most-watched women's basketball game on record. note: The #9 vs. #16 game was Arkansas over Harvard in 1998. The team is transitioning from a lower NCAA division, during which time it is barred by NCAA rule from participation in NCAA-sponsored postseason play. Known as LouisianaMonroe since 19992000; alternately branded athletically as ULM. 3 Baylor. [3], After losing the stellar trio of Stewart, Jefferson and Tuck, many predicted a sub-par season for UConn standards; the AP Poll ranked the team third in the nation, and coach Auriemma had designed a very tough non-conference calendar to test the strength of his young team. NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament Notably, Louisiana Tech went 405 during the 197980 season. The 201011 season began with high hopes but much uncertainty for the Huskies. The Huskies advanced to their first Final Four since 1996 and beat Penn State in the semifinals, reaching the Lady Vols for the championship game in Auriemma's hometown of Philadelphia.

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