Season 2016–17 | Teams 64 | |
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Finals site American Airlines Center
Dallas, Texas | ||
The 2017 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament will be played between March 24 and April 2, 2017, with the Final Four played at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on March 31 and April 2. This is the first time the women's Final Four will be played in Dallas and will be the first time since 2002 that the Final Four games will be played on Friday and Sunday, rather than Sunday and Tuesday.
Contents
2017 NCAA Tournament schedule and venues
The first two rounds, also referred to as the subregionals will be played at the sites of the top 16 seeds, as was done in 2016.
Regional Semifinals and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)
National Semifinals and Championship (Final Four and Championship)
Subregionals Tournament & automatic qualifiers procedures
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.
Pending any changes to the current format, a total of 64 teams entered the 2015 tournament. 32 all automatic bids teams were given to the program that wins their conference tournament. The remaining 32 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
The Selection Committee also seeded the entire field from 1 to 64.
Automatic qualifiers
The following teams automatically qualified for the 2017 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament.