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| Season | 2012–13 | ||||
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| Teams | 64 | ||||
| Finals site | New Orleans Arena New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||
| Champions | Connecticut Huskies (8th title, 8th title game, 14th Final Four) | ||||
| Runner-up | Louisville Cardinals (2nd title game, 2nd Final Four) | ||||
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| Winning coach | Geno Auriemma (8th title) | ||||
| MOP | Breanna Stewart (Connecticut) | ||||
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The 2013 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was played from March 23 through April 9, 2013. Tennessee continued its streak of making every NCAA women's basketball tournament at 32 consecutive appearances. Kansas made the regional semifinals for the second year in a row as a double-digit seed, UConn made it into the Final Four for the sixth consecutive year, the longest such streak, and Louisville became the first team seeded lower than fourth in a region to advance to the championship game. For the first time in tournament history, the same four teams were #1 seeds as in the previous year.