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| Season | 2023–24 | ||||
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| Teams | 68 | ||||
| Finals site | Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Cleveland, Ohio | ||||
| Champions | South Carolina Gamecocks (3rd title, 3rd title game, 6th Final Four) | ||||
| Runner-up | Iowa Hawkeyes (2nd title game, 3rd Final Four) | ||||
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| Winning coach | Dawn Staley (3rd title) | ||||
| MOP | Kamilla Cardoso (South Carolina) | ||||
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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 I college 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.
Big South champion Presbyterian, Southland champion Texas A&M–Corpus Christi, WAC champion California Baptist and 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 where the top #1 seed won both the Men's & Women's NCAA Tournament since 2012.