Conference tournament season is in full swing in women’s college basketball. Thus far, 20 tickets to the Big Dance have been punched, but we’ve still got plenty more to go. Some of the most notable teams to secure their spot in the NCAA Tournament are Iowa, South Carolina, USC, UConn and Texas.
On Saturday, those schools were joined by MAC champion Kent State and WAC champion California Baptist. Eleven automatic bid spots now remain.
Seven more championships are scheduled for Saturday and the remaining four automatic bids will be determined on Sunday. The remaining teams in the 68-team field will receive at-large bids based on their season resumes on Selection Sunday, which takes place at 8 p.m. ET.
Among the championships scheduled for Saturday are the ASUN, SWAC, MEAC, MAAC, Ivy League, Conference USA and the Big West. Sunday will close out with Coastal, Missouri Valley, Northeast and Patriot championship games taking place.
Iowa, powered by star guard Caitlin Clark, secured its third straight Big Ten Women’s Tournament crown with a thrilling comeback win against Nebraska on Sunday. South Carolina, the top team in the country all season long, overpowered LSU to claim the SEC Tournament title and preserve its undefeated record. USC got past Stanford in the Pac-12 Tournament for its first conference title since 2014. UConn, meanwhile, steamrolled its competition — including Georgetown in the tournament final — for its fourth consecutive conference title. Texas joined those teams in glory by dominating Iowa State for the Big 12 crown.
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The 2024 NCAA Women’s College Basketball Tournament will start with the First Four on March 20-21. The first and second rounds will be held over March 22-23 and March 24-25, respectively. The Sweet 16 and Elite Eight will be held in Albany, N.Y., and Portland, Ore., over March 29-April 1. The Final Four and national championship game will take place at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland the weekend of April 5-7.
Here’s a look at the conference tournament sites and dates:
| ACC | Greensboro, N.C. | March 6-10 | Notre Dame |
| America East | Campus sites | March 8-15 | Maine |
| American Athletic | Fort Worth, Texas | March 9-13 | Rice |
| Atlantic 10 | Henrico County, Va. | March 6-10 | Richmond |
| ASUN | Campus sites | March 8-16 (ESPN+) | |
| Big East | Uncasville, Conn. | March 8-11 | UConn |
| Big Sky | Boise, Idaho | March 9-13 | Eastern Washington |
| Big South | High Point, N.C. | March 6-10 | Presbyterian |
| Big Ten | Minneapolis, Minn. | March 6-10 | Iowa |
| Big 12 | Kansas City, Mo. | March 7-12 | Texas |
| Big West | Henderson, Nev. | March 13-16 | |
| Coastal | Washington, D.C. | March 13-17 (FloHoops, CBSSN) | |
| Conference USA | Huntsville, Ala. | March 12-16 (ESPN+, CBSSN) | |
| Horizon League | Campus sites; Indianapolis | March 5, 7, 11, 12 | Green Bay |
| Ivy League | New York, N.Y. | March 15-16 (ESPN+) | |
| MAAC | Atlantic City, N.J. | March 12-16 | Fairfield |
| MAC | Cleveland, Ohio | March 13, 15-16 | Kent State |
| MEAC | Norfolk, Va. | March 13-16 | Norfolk State |
| Missouri Valley | Moline, Ill. | March 14-17 (ESPNU) | |
| Mountain West | Las Vegas, Nev. | March 10-13 | UNLV |
| Northeast | Campus sites | March 11, 14, 17 (ESPNU) | |
| Ohio Valley | Evansville, Ind. | March 6-9 | Southern Indiana |
| Pac-12 | Las Vegas, Nev. | March 6-8, 10 | USC |
| Patriot | Campus sites | March 9, 11, 14, 17 (ESPN+, CBSSN) | |
| SEC | Greenville, S.C. | March 6-10 | South Carolina |
| Southern | Asheville, N.C | March 7-8, 10 | Chattanooga |
| Southland | Lake Charles, La. | March 11-14 | Texas A&M-CC |
| Summit | Sioux Falls, S.D. | March 8-12 | South Dakota State |
| Sun Belt | Pensacola, Fla. | March 5-6, 8, 10-11 | Marshall |
| SWAC | Birmingham, Ala. | March 13-16 | |
| WAC | Las Vegas, Nev. | March 12-16 | California Baptist |
| West Coast | Las Vegas, Nev. | March 7-12 | Portland |
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