NCAA Women's Basketball NewsSunday, Mar 15, 2026

All you need to know for March Madness women's tournament, which runs from selections on Sunday, March 15 through the championship on Sunday, April 5.

UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are projected No. 1 seeds in the women's NCAA Tournament when the bracket is announced Sunday night. The Huskies head into March Madness undefeated and need six more wins to complete the seventh undefeated season in school history. If they win, UConn will be the first repeat champion since the team won four in a row from 2013-16.

Where the top eight seeds play in the regionals is as big of a question as which bubble teams get in Selection Sunday.

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Fadima Tall scored 20 points and Olivia Hutcherson sparked a late surge to help No. 23 Princeton beat Harvard 63-53 on Saturday to win the Ivy League Tournament. Top-seeded Princeton (26-3) avenged last season’s tournament semifinal loss Harvard. The Crimson beat Columbia 74-71 in last season's title game. The Tigers have won six of the eight championships in the tournament’s history, and will make their fifth-straight NCAA Tournament trip and 13th appearance since 2010. H...

Kaemyn Bekemeier scored 16 points, Lainie Douglas had 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Missouri State shut down Louisiana Tech 43-38 in the championship game of the Conference USA Tournament on Saturday. Sixth-seeded Missouri State (22-12) allowed just 12 points in the second half and won despite suffering through a nine-minute scoreless stretch in the fourth quarter. Each team managed two points in the first nine minutes of the fourth quarter, then a 3-pointer from Paris Bradley got the Lady T...

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Erin Condron scored 22 points and grabbed 14 rebounds and UC San Diego took control in the second and beat Hawaii 60-48 in the Big West Conference championship on Saturday. Makayla Rose scored 17 points for the second-seeded Tritons (24-8), who clinched the Big West's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year. It’s the fifth conference title for the Tritons during their 14-year tenure under head coach Heidi Vanderveer. Bailey Flavell scored 13 po...

Ereauna Hardaway and Cheyenne Rowe each scored 13 points and UTSA held Rice to a season-low score beating the Owls 54-40 on Saturday in the American Conference title game on Saturday. Idara Udo added 11 points for No. 6 seed UTSA (18-15) which clinched its first championship — and NCAA Tournament berth —since joining the American. Hailey Adams was the only player for top-seeded Rice (28-5) in double figures with 12 points.

BYU is the last team in, and Texas A&M is the first team out in our final women's NCAA Tournament projection

HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — Akeelah Lafleur had 15 points off the bench, Leah Crosby and Ava Renninger posted double-doubles and top seed Fairleigh Dickinson beat Long Island University 79-57 on Sunday to win the NEC Tournament and earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Fairleigh Dickinson (30-4) will bring a 22-game winning streak into the NCAA's main event. The Knights made the field for the first time last season under third-year coach Stephanie Gaitley. Lafleur sank 6 of 8 shots, including 3 of ...

Kaitlyn Flanagan, Meg Cahalan and Simone Foreman all scored 16 points to lead second-seeded Holy Cross to a 77-70 victory over No. 4-seed Lehigh on Sunday to win the Patriot League Championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Holy Cross and Lehigh have won five of the last six Patriot Championships. A 3-pointer by Flanagan gave Holy Cross a 63-53 lead with six minutes left in the fourth quarter.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taryn Barbot scored 23 points, twin sister Taylor added 16, and top-seeded Charleston defeated 10th-seeded Hofstra 68-56 on Sunday to win the Coastal Athletic Conference Tournament and reach women's March Madness for the first time. The Cougars held each of their three opponents in the tournament under 60 points. Grace Ezebilo scored 10 points and grabbed 16 rebounds for the Cougars (27-5) and Taryn Barbot hit four 3-pointers, as did Jami Hill, who finished with 14 points. T...

CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Halli Poock scored 33 points, Shamecce Currie-Jelks added a double-double and top seed Murray State beat Evansville 91-70 on Sunday to win a second straight Missouri Valley Conference Tournament and an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Racers (31-3) head to the main event on a 15-game winning streak under coach Rechelle Turner, who is in her ninth season. Murray State's only previous appearance before winning back-to-back championships came in 2008. Poock mad...