It’s March, which means we’re in the final stretch of women’s college basketball season.
And it’s been a wild one, with heroics from Caitlin Clark, buzzer beaters from Diamond Miller, records rewritten by Cameron Brink, and Dawn Staley showing off so much swag as she leads South Carolina.
Iowa, Maryland, Stanford and South Carolina are a few teams capable of advancing all the way to the Final Four this year.
And you might be wondering, where is the Final Four this year, anyway?
It’s in Dallas, Texas at the American Airlines Center, home to the NHL’s Dallas Stars and the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.
Dallas last hosted a women’s Final Four in 2017, when South Carolina won its first national championship behind the play of A’ja Wilson.
The Gamecocks won their second national championship last season, when the Final Four was in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The year before that, San Antonio, Texas hosted in 2021.
San Antonio is one of four cities to host three women’s Final Fours, along with Tampa, New Orleans and Indianapolis. The 2024 Final Four is in Cleveland, and then it will return to Tampa for a fourth time in 2025. Dallas won’t host again until 2031.
This year, the tournament has two regional sites before we get to Dallas. Those are in Greenville, South Carolina and Seattle, Washington.
And at the Final Four in Dallas, we won’t just get Division I games; the Division II and III national championship games will be played on Saturday, April 1.
The Division I national championship game tips off at 3:30 p.m. EST on ABC on Sunday, April 2.
