Women’s March Madness 2025 schedule, locations and more

Below is the schedule for the 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, which will feature 68 teams for the fourth consecutive year.

The final four overall teams, seeded 65th through 68th, will face each other in the First Four before the start of the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The top 16 seeds will host the first weekend of tournament play as well as the First Four.

Once again, the regional semifinals and finals – the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight – will be played at two venues, with eight teams competing in each. Birmingham, Alabama, and Spokane, Washington, will host regionals March 28-31.

The 2025 Women’s Final Four is scheduled for April 4 and 6 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.

The women’s bracket will be announced on Sunday, March 16 on ESPN, with ESPN networks broadcasting every game in the tournament. The games can also be watched online via the ESPN app.

New this year for women’s college basketball is the use of the quadrant-based system – used by the men’s selection committee – to measure the quality of a win or loss, which increases teams’ chances of being selected for the 68 Championship taken into account – team bracket.

Check out Charlie Creme’s ESPN Bracketology for the entire 2024-25 season for early projections on the field, including all of the current teams considered “on the bubble.”

Quick links:
Way too early Top 25 | Bracketology

Selection Sunday
March 16 (ESPN/ESPN App)

First four
19th-20th March
TBD; Top 16 seed host

First round
21st-22nd March
TBD; Top 16 seed host

Second round
23rd-24th March
TBD; Top 16 seed host

Birmingham Regional
28-31 March
Legacy Arena (Birmingham, Alabama)

Spokane Regional
28-31 March
Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena (Spokane, Washington)

Final four
April 4th, April 6th
Amalie Arena (Tampa, Florida)