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2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament

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 Icollege basketball national champion for the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The 42nd edition of the tournament began on March 20, 2024, and concluded with the championship game on April 7, 2024 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio.
This is the most recent appearance for Stanford Cardinal, who made 32 appearances before missing the tournament in 2025.
Big South champion Presbyterian, Southland champion Texas A&M–Corpus Christi, WAC champion California Baptist an at-large bid Columbia all made their NCAA tournament debuts. Additionally, Big Sky champion Eastern Washington made its second-ever appearance and first since 1987, Big West champion UC Irvine made its first appearance since 1995 and Sun Belt champion Marshall made its first appearance since 1997. In the championship game, Iowa returned for their second straight appearance while South Carolina entered their third championship game in seven years and became the tenth team in Division I women's tournament history to finish an undefeated season at 38–0.
This was the first time that the top #1 seed won both the Men's & Women's NCAA Tournament since 2012.