2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
| Season | 2024–25 | ||||
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| Teams | 68 | ||||
| Finals site | Amalie Arena, Tampa, Florida | ||||
| Champions | UConn Huskies (12th title, 13th title game, 24th Final Four) | ||||
| Runner-up | South Carolina Gamecocks (4th title game, 7th Final Four) | ||||
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| Winning coach | Geno Auriemma (12th title) | ||||
| MOP | Azzi Fudd (UConn) | ||||
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The 2025 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 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The 43rd edition of the tournament began on March 19, 2025, and concluded with the championship game on April 6, at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.
Atlantic 10 champion George Mason, Big West champion UC San Diego, NEC champion Fairleigh Dickinson, Sun Belt champion Arkansas State, WAC champion Grand Canyon, and CAA champion William & Mary all made their NCAA tournament debuts. Additionally, SoCon champion UNC Greensboro made their first appearance since 1998 and second appearance overall.
For the first time since 1987, Stanford did not qualify for the tournament.
For the first time in Women's March Madness history since expanding to 64-plus teams, no team successfully completed an official upset, defined by the NCAA as by five or more seeding lines.