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| Season | 2017–18 | ||||
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| Teams | 64 | ||||
| Finals site | Nationwide Arena Columbus, Ohio | ||||
| Champions | Notre Dame Fighting Irish (2nd title, 6th title game, 8th Final Four) | ||||
| Runner-up | Mississippi State Bulldogs (2nd title game, 2nd Final Four) | ||||
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| Winning coach | Muffet McGraw (2nd title) | ||||
| MOP | Arike Ogunbowale (Notre Dame) | ||||
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The 2018 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament began on March 16, 2018, and concluded with the national championship game on Sunday, April 1. The Final Four was played at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.[1] This is the third time that the women's Final Four was played in Ohio after previously being held in Cincinnati in 1997 and Cleveland in 2007 and the first time that the women's Final Four was played in Columbus.[2] For only the fourth time in the tournament’s 37-year history, all four of the number one seeds made it to the Final Four (1989, 2012, 2015).
Tennessee continued its record streak of making every NCAA women's basketball tournament at 37 consecutive appearances. Connecticut also continued its record streak of 11 consecutive Final Four appearances.
- ^ "Women's basketball: Columbus to host Final Four in 2018". Buckeye Xtra Sports. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
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