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The 2014
NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament 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 ...
was played in March and April 2014, with the Final Four played April 6–8. The
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served as the host institution. The Final Four was played at
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. Tennessee continued its streak of making every NCAA women's basketball tournament at 33 consecutive appearances. Connecticut (who made their seventh consecutive Final Four overall) and Notre Dame faced each other in the NCAA Final. Both were undefeated heading into the championship game, making it the first ever match up of two undefeated teams in the championship game. Connecticut prevailed, 79–58, to win their ninth national championship. The previous day, Connecticut also won the men's tournament. It was just the second time in NCAA history the same school had won both the men's and women's tournament; UConn first accomplished that feat in 2004.


Tournament procedure

Pending any changes to the format, a total of 64 teams will enter the 2014 tournament. 32 automatic bids shall be awarded to each program that wins their conference's tournament. The remaining 36 bids are "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. 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. The top-seeded team in each region plays the #16 team, the #2 team plays the #15, etc. (meaning where the two seeds add up to 17, that team will be assigned to play another). The basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus. The Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 64.


2014 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues

There were 64 teams in the tournament, placed in a seeded bracket with four regions. Thirty-two teams received automatic bids – thirty-one of which were their conference tournament champions; the other was for the Ivy League regular-season champion. An additional 32 teams were given at-large bids by the selection committee on the basis of their body of work during the regular season. Unlike the Men's Tournament, there was no "First Four" round. First and Second rounds (Subregionals) The subregionals were played from March 22 to March 25, 2014. Sites chosen to host first- and second-round games in 2014 were: * March 22 and 24 **
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Cameron Indoor Stadium Cameron Indoor Stadium is an indoor arena located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The 9,314-seat facility is the primary indoor athletic venue for the Duke Blue Devils and serves as the home court for Duke men's and ...
, Durham, North Carolina (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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Pauley Pavilion Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, commonly known as Pauley Pavilion, is an indoor arena located in the Westwood Village district of Los Angeles, California, on the campus of UCLA. It is home to the UCLA Bruins men's and women's basketball teams. The ...
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Ferrell Center The Paul J. Meyer Arena, which is part of the Ferrell Center, is an arena in Waco, Texas. Built in 1988 and located adjacent to the Brazos River, it is home to the Baylor University Bears basketball and volleyball teams. It is named for Charle ...
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Mackey Arena Mackey Arena is located in West Lafayette, Indiana. Part of the Purdue University campus, it is home to the university's basketball teams, and occasionally hosts home games for the volleyball and wrestling teams. The arena opened in 1967 as a repl ...
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(Host: Purdue) * March 23 and 25 **
Pete Maravich Assembly Center The Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,215-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972. It is home to the Louisiana State University Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball teams, the LSU Tigers women's gymnastics ...
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) ** Carmichael Arena, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Host:
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(Host: Penn State) Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight) The Regionals, named for the city rather than the region of geographic importance since 2005, were held from March 29 to April 1 at the following sites: * March 29 and 31 ** Lincoln Regional,
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Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
) ** South Bend Regional, Joyce Center, Notre Dame, Indiana (Host: Notre Dame) * March 30 and April 1 ** Louisville Regional, KFC Yum! Center,
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(Host: Stanford) National semifinals and championship (Final Four and national championship) *April 6 & 8 **
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) It was the first time that Nashville had hosted a Women's Final Four Basketball tournament.


Tournament records

* Team rebound margin—Notre Dame out rebounded Maryland 50 to 21; the margin of 29 is the largest margin in Final Four history * Assists—Connecticut recorded 25 assists in the Championship game against Notre Dame, the most ever recorded in a Final Four game since the NCAA began recording assists in 1985. * Oklahoma scored 66 points in the second half of a first-round game against DePaul, the most points scored in a half of an NCAA tournament game, but lost to DePaul 104–100.


Automatic qualifiers

The following teams earned automatic qualifiers for the 2014 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion receives the automatic bid):


Tournament seeds


Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period


Lincoln Regional

In their first round match DePaul and Oklahoma scored a combined 204 points, setting a tournament record for most points in a non-overtime game. Oklahoma's 66 second-half points was also a record a team in a single half. Connecticut vs. Prairie View A&M aired nationwide on ESPN. Connecticut vs. Saint Joseph's aired nationwide on ESPNU. All other games aired with whip-a-round or regional coverage on ESPN or ESPN2.


Notre Dame Regional

Notre Dame vs. Robert Morris aired nationwide on ESPN. Notre Dame vs. Arizona State aired nationwide on ESPNews. All other games aired with whip-a-round or regional coverage on ESPN or ESPN2.


Louisville Regional


Stanford Regional


Final Four – Nashville, Tennessee


Final Four summaries


National championship

Undefeated Connecticut faced undefeated Notre Dame in the final game, the first ever to feature two undefeated teams. After a hard-fought first half, the Connecticut Huskies pulled away in the second for a 79–58 victory. National Player of the Year
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scored 21 points for Connecticut. Stefanie Dolson added 17 points and 16 rebounds for the victors.
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had 21 points for the Notre Dame Irish. Connecticut won the rebound battle 54–31 and held Notre Dame to a season low in points. After the game, Notre Dame coach
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said "I thought we were playing the
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for a while onnecticut isjust that good." By winning, Connecticut moved to 40–0 on the season and claimed their ninth title, surpassing Tennessee's eight titles for the most all-time. Coach
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said he was "flattered and grateful and all the things that come with this kind of accomplishment ... I'm more proud of the legacy that exists and what Connecticut basketball is as opposed to the number of championships." All nine of the school's titles, five with unbeaten records, have come during Auriemma's twenty seasons as head coach. Connecticut became the second school to finish the year 40–0, the other being Baylor. They have now won 46 consecutive games, the third most in NCAA history, but well short of their NCAA record of 90. For Notre Dame, it was their third loss in the title game in the last four years. They were inhibited by the loss of senior starter
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to injury in the Regional Final. The Irish had won seven of the previous nine meeting between the two powerhouses. However, Connecticut beat them during the tournament for the second consecutive year, having eliminated them in the Final Four in 2013.


All-Tournament team

* Breanna Stewart, Connecticut *
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, Connecticut * Stefanie Dolson, Connecticut * Kayla McBride, Notre Dame * Jewell Loyd, Notre Dame


Game Officials

* Chuck Gonzalez (semifinal) * Cameron Inouye (semifinal) * Tina Napier (semifinal) * Mike Price (semifinal) * Joe Vaszily (semifinal) * Scott Yarbrough (semifinal) * Denise Brooks (final) * Dee Kanter (final) * Joe Vasily (Standby) * Lisa Mattingly (final)


Record by conference

Source * The R64, R32, S16, E8, F4, CG, and NC columns indicate how many teams from each conference were in the round of 64 (first round), round of 32 (second round), Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four, championship game, and national champion, respectively. * The America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Conference USA, Horizon, Ivy, MEAC, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American (MAC), Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Sun Belt, SWAC, and WAC conferences each had one representative that was eliminated in the first round.


Media coverage


Television

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had US television rights to all games during the tournament. For the first and second round, ESPN aired select games nationally on ESPN, ESPNU, or
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. All other games aired regionally on ESPN or
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and streamed online via ESPN3. Most of the nation got whip-a-round coverage during this time, which allowed ESPN to rotate between the games and focus the nation on the one that has the closest score. The regional semifinals were split between ESPN and ESPN2, and ESPN aired the regional finals, national semifinals, and championship match.


Studio host & analysts

* Kevin Negandhi (Host) * Kara Lawson (Analyst) * Rebecca Lobo (Analyst)


Broadcast assignments

''First & Second Rounds Saturday/Monday'' * Mark Jones &
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– Lexington, Kentucky *
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& Stephanie White – Toledo, Ohio *
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& Maria Taylor – Knoxville, Tennessee *
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– Los Angeles, California * Pam Ward &
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– Waco, Texas ''Sweet Sixteen & Elite Eight Saturday/Monday'' *Beth Mowins, Stephanie White, & Maria Taylor – South Bend, Indiana *Pam Ward, Carolyn Peck, & LaChina Robinson – Lincoln, Nebraska ''Final Four'' *Dave O'Brien, Doris Burke, & Holly Rowe – Nashville, Tennessee ''First & Second Rounds Sunday/Tuesday'' *
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– Baton Rouge, Louisiana * Tom Hart & Mary Murphy – Chapel Hill, North Carolina *
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– College Park, Maryland * Bob Picozzi & Krista Blunk – University Park, Pennsylvania *
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– Seattle, Washington * Dave O'Brien & Debbie Antonelli – Storrs, Connecticut ''Sweet Sixteen & Elite Eight Sunday/Tuesday'' *Dave O'Brien, Doris Burke, & Holly Rowe – Louisville, Kentucky *Dave Pasch, Debbie Antonelli, & Brooke Weisbrod – Stanford, California ''Championship'' *Dave O'Brien, Doris Burke, & Holly Rowe – Nashville, Tennessee


Radio

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had nationwide broadcast and streaming radio rights from the regional finals on through the championship. The teams participating in the Regional Finals, Final Four, and championship were allowed to have their own local broadcasts, but were not allowed to stream their broadcast online. ''Regional Finals Monday'' *
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& Krista Blunk – South Bend, Indiana * Craig Way & Brenda VanLengen – Lincoln, Nebraska ''Final Four'' *Dave Ryan, Debbie Antonelli, & Krista Blunk – Nashville, Tennessee ''Regional Finals Tuesday'' * Dave Ryan & Ann Schatz – Louisville, Kentucky *
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& Ann Meyers Drysdale – Stanford, California ''Championship'' *Dave Ryan, Debbie Antonelli, & Krista Blunk – Nashville, Tennessee


See also

* 2014 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament *
2014 National Invitation Tournament The 2014 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 32 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2014 NCAA tournament. The annual tournament started on campus sites for the first 3 rounds, with ...
* 2014 Women's National Invitation Tournament


Notes

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