The 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was a

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of 68 teams to determine the

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(NCAA) Division I

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national champion for the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The 41st edition of the

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began in March 2023, and concluded on April 2, 2023 with the

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at the

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. Big Sky champion

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champion Saint Louis,

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champion Southeastern Louisiana and WAC champion

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made their NCAA debuts, while

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champions

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made its first NCAA appearance since 1983.

Tournament procedure

A total of 68 teams participated in the 2023 tournament, consisting of the 32

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champions, and 36 "at-large" bids to be extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. The last four at-large teams and teams seeded 65 through 68 overall played in

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games, whose winners advanced to the 64-team first round.

2023 NCAA tournament schedule and venues

The first two rounds, also referred to as the subregionals, were played at the sites of the top 16 seeds, as was done from 2016 to 2019. A dramatic change from past tournaments is that the regional rounds (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight) are being held at two sites, instead of the four used in past tournaments. Two regionals will be held in

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and the other two will be held in

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. Specific regional names will be announced by the NCAA committee on or before selections are announced on March 12, 2023. First Four * March 15—16 * Four of the campuses seeded in the Top 16 Subregionals (first and second rounds) *March 17 and 19 (Fri/Sun) **

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(Host: University of South Carolina) ** Edmund P. Joyce Center,

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(Host:

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) ** XFINITY Center,

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(Host:

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) **

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(Host:

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) **

Jon M. Huntsman Center The Jon M. Huntsman Center is a 15,000-seat indoor arena in the western United States, on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It is the home of the Utah Utes of the Pac-12 Conference, the primary venue for Utah Utes men's b ...

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(Host:

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) **

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(Host:

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) **

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) ** Carver–Hawkeye Arena,

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(Host:

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) *March 18 and 20 (Sat/Mon) **

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(Host:

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) **

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(Host:

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(Host:

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) **

Thompson–Boling Arena Thompson–Boling Arena is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The arena opened in 1987. It is home to the Tennessee Volunteers (men) and Lady Vols (women) basketball teams. Since 2008, it h ...

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(Host:

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) **

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(Host:

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) ** Harry A. Gampel Pavilion,

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(Host:

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) **

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(Host:

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) **

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(Host:

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) Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight) *March 24—27 **Greenville regional ***

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(Hosts:

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and the

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) **Seattle regional ***

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(Hosts:

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and the

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) National semifinals and championship (Final Four and championship) * March 31 and April 2 **

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(Hosts:

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and the

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) This is the second time the women's Final Four will be played in Dallas (

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Qualification and selection

Automatic qualifiers

The following teams automatically qualified for the 2023 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament.

Bids by state

Tournament seeds (list by region)

The tournament seeds and regions were determined through the

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. *See

Tournament records

* Virginia Tech's

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hit 24 3-pointers in the tournament, setting the record for most three pointers in a single tournament, surpassing the record of 22 set by UConn's

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in 2017, and tied by Arizona's

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in 2021. * Iowa's

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set numerous NCAA tournament records, including most points scored (191), most assists (60), and most 3-point field goals in a national championship game (8). Clark also became the first player in tournament history to post back-to-back 40-point games, with 41 in the regional final, followed by 41 in the Final Four.

Tournament bracket

Source:
All times are listed in

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( UTC−4)
* denotes overtime period

First Four

The

games involve eight teams: the four overall lowest-ranked teams and the four lowest-ranked at-large teams.

Greenville Regional 1 –
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,
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Greenville Regional 1 final

Greenville Regional 1 all-tournament team

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(MOP) –

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* Brea Beal – South Carolina * Zia Cooke – South Carolina *

Abby Meyers Abby Meyers (born July 14, 1999) is an American professional basketball player. She played college basketball at Princeton and Maryland. Meyers was drafted in the first round, 11th overall, by the Dallas Wings in the 2023 WNBA draft. Early and ...

–

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Diamond Miller Diamond Miller (born February 11, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins women's basketball, Mar ...

– Maryland

Greenville Regional 2 – Bon Secours Wellness Arena, Greenville, SC

Greenville Regional 2 final

Greenville Regional 2 all-tournament team

* Angel Reese (MOP) –

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* Alexis Morris –

* Jasmyne Roberts –

Miami (FL) Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at the ...

* Gianna Kneepkens –

Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...

Maddy Siegrist Madison Siegrist (born May 22, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played her collegiate basketball for the Villanova Wildcats of the Big East Con ...

– Villanova

Seattle Regional 3 –
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–
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Seattle Regional 3 final

Seattle Regional 3 all-tournament team

* Georgia Amoore (MOP) –

* Elizabeth Kitley – Virginia Tech *

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–

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* Jacy Sheldon – Ohio State * Lou Lopez Sénéchal –

UConn The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Ha ...

Seattle Regional 4 – Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle, WA

Seattle Regional 4 final

Caitlin Clark, Iowa's star player, made NCAA tournament history by becoming the first player to score a 40-point

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, with 41 points, 10 rebounds, and 12 assists. The junior either scored or assisted on every field goal in the Hawkeyes' 25-point first quarter, which helped the Hawkeyes advance to their first Final Four since

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Seattle Regional 4 all-tournament team

(MOP) –

Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...

* Monika Czinano – Iowa * McKenna Warnock – Iowa *

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–

Louisville Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. ...

* Frida Formann –

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Final Four -
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–
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National semifinals

National championship

Final Four all-tournament team

* Angel Reese, LSU (

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) * Alexis Morris, LSU * Jasmine Carson, LSU *

, Iowa * Zia Cooke, South Carolina

Game officials

Game summaries and tournament notes

Upsets

Per the NCAA, "Upsets are defined as when the winner of the game was seeded two or more places lower than the team it defeated." The 2023 tournament has ten upsets so far, with five in the first round, three in the second round, one in the Sweet Sixteen, and one in the Final Four.

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's loss to Ole Miss marked the first time a No. 1 seed failed to make the Sweet Sixteen since

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. With

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's loss to

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, this marked the first time two No. 1 seeds failed to make the Sweet Sixteen since

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's loss to

in the Sweet 16 marked the first time since

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that UConn will not be heading to the Women's Final Four. With

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's loss to

in the Sweet 16 this marked the first time since

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that Women's Final four will neither feature UConn or Tennessee.

Record by conference

*The FF, R64, R32, S16, E8, F4, CG, and NC columns indicate how many teams from each conference were in the first four, round of 64 (first round), round of 32 (second round), Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four, championship game, and national champion, respectively.

Media coverage

Television

All games in the tournament were televised by

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networks or

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; this was the second-to-last year of its current contract to air NCAA tournaments, which lasts through the 2023–24 season. On August 23, 2022, ESPN announced that the national championship game would be broadcast by ABC for the first time, with a Sunday afternoon scheduling. This marked the first time the women's championship game would be carried on broadcast television since

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. Viewership of the tournament was up by 42% year-over-year. With significant attention towards Iowa player

, the Iowa/South Carolina semi-final game was seen by an average of 5.5 million viewers—making it the highest-rated Women's Final Four telecast in ESPN history. 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. It was a 103% increase over the previous year's championship game, which was carried by ESPN in primetime.

Studio host and analysts

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(Host) (First Four, First, Second rounds, Regionals, Final Four, and National championship game) * Kelsey Riggs (Host) (First Four, First, and Second rounds) * Rebecca Lobo (Analyst) (First Four, First, Second rounds, Final Four, and National championship game) * Andraya Carter (Analyst) (First Four, First, Second rounds, Final Four, and National championship game) *

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(Analyst) (First Four, First, Second rounds, and Regionals) *

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(Analyst) (First Four, First, Second rounds, Regionals, Final Four, and National championship game) *

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(Analyst) (Final Four and National championship game)

Commentary teams

''First Four'' * Jenn Hildreth &

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– Notre Dame, Indiana * Brenda VanLengen &

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– Bloomington, Indiana *

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– Columbus, Ohio *

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– Stanford, California ''First & second rounds Friday/Sunday (Subregionals)'' * Courtney Lyle &

– Columbia, South Carolina * Jenn Hildreth & Mike Thibault – Notre Dame, Indiana * Tiffany Greene &

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– College Park, Maryland * Kevin Fitzgerald & Andrea Lloyd-Curry – Baton Rouge, Louisiana *

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& Dan Hughes – Salt Lake City, Utah *

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& Helen Williams – Blacksburg, Virginia * Roy Philpott & Brooke Weisbrod – Stanford, California * Dave O'Brien &

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– Iowa City, Iowa ''First & second rounds Saturday/Monday (Subregionals)'' *

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& Meghan McKeown – Los Angeles, California * Brenda VanLengen & Holly Warlick – Bloomington, Indiana *

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& Aja Ellison – Villanova, Pennsylvania *

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& Stephanie White – Knoxville, Tennessee * Sam Gore & Kim Adams – Columbus, Ohio *

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& Christy Thomaskutty – Storrs, Connecticut *

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& Tamika Catchings – Austin, Texas *

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& Kelly Gramlich – Durham, North Carolina ''Regionals (Sweet 16 and Elite Eight)'' * Beth Mowins, Debbie Antonelli & Angel Gray – Greenville, South Carolina (Regional 1) * Courtney Lyle, Carolyn Peck & Brooke Weisbrod – Greenville, South Carolina (Regional 2) *

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, Rebecca Lobo,

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& Andraya Carter – Seattle, Washington (Regional 3) * Pam Ward, Stephanie White & Holly Rowe – Seattle, Washington (Regional 4) ''Final Four and National Championship'' * Ryan Ruocco, Rebecca Lobo, Holly Rowe & Andraya Carter – Dallas, Texas

Radio

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will serve as radio broadcaster of the tournament. ''Regionals (Sweet 16 and Elite Eight)'' * Lance Medow &

– Greenville, South Carolina 1 * Jason Ross Jr. & Debbie Antonelli – Greenville, South Carolina 2 * Dick Fain & Kristen Kozlowski – Seattle, Washington 3 * Matt Chazanow & Krista Blunk – Seattle, Washington 4 ''Final Four and National Championship'' *

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, Debbie Antonelli & Krista Blunk – Dallas, Texas

References

External links

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Tournament procedure

2023 NCAA tournament schedule and venues

Qualification and selection

Automatic qualifiers

Bids by state

Tournament seeds (list by region)

Tournament records

Tournament bracket

First Four

Greenville Regional 1 final

Greenville Regional 1 all-tournament team

Greenville Regional 2 – Bon Secours Wellness Arena, Greenville, SC

Greenville Regional 2 final

Greenville Regional 2 all-tournament team

Seattle Regional 3 final

Seattle Regional 3 all-tournament team

Seattle Regional 4 – Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle, WA

Seattle Regional 4 final

Seattle Regional 4 all-tournament team

National semifinals

National championship

Final Four all-tournament team

Game officials

Game summaries and tournament notes

Upsets

Record by conference

Media coverage

Television

Studio host and analysts

Commentary teams

Radio

See also

References

External links