INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee announced the top 16 teams for the 2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship.
The 16 teams, in alphabetical order, with campus hosted sites and records are as follows:
• Duke – Durham, North Carolina (24-8)
• Iowa – Iowa City, Iowa (26-6)
• Louisville – Louisville, Kentucky (27-7)
• LSU – Baton Rouge, Louisiana (27-5)
• Michigan – Ann Arbor, Michigan (25-6)
• Minnesota – Minneapolis, Minnesota (22-8)
• North Carolina – Chapell Hill, North Carolina (26-7)
• Ohio State – Columbus, Ohio (26-7)
• Oklahoma – Norman, Oklahoma (24-7)
• South Carolina – Columbia, South Carolina (31-3)
• TCU – Fort Worth, Texas (29-5)
• Texas – Austin, Texas (31-3)
• UCLA – Los Angeles, California (31-1)
• UConn – Storrs, Connecticut (34-0)
• Vanderbilt – Nashville, Tennessee (27-4)
• West Virginia – Morgantown, West Virginia (27-6)
The full 68-team field, including the full seed list, and site assignments will be announced at 8 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, March 15. The one-hour program will be shown live on ESPN.
Regional play in Fort Worth, Texas (Dickies Arena) and Sacramento, California (Golden 1 Center) will take place March 27-30, with each site hosting two regional semifinal games March 27 and two March 28. In addition, each site will host a regional championship game March 29 and one on March 31.
There are 31 Division I conferences that will receive an automatic berth in the field of 68, along with 37 at-large selections. The 2026 NCAA Women’s Final Four will be played April 3 and 5 at Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
