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NCAA.com | March 12, 2023

We're tracking all 32 NCAA women's basketball conference tournaments, auto bids for 2023

Clutch shots in the NCAA women’s tournament, since 1994

The 68-team bracket for the 2023 women's NCAA tournament includes 32 teams that qualify automatically through auto-bids from their conferences. Tennessee Tech won the first automatic bid, winning the OVC final.

We're tracking the 32 conferences that crown champions through tournaments. These AQ teams help make up the March Madness field. The rest are at-large selections.

The women's selection show is for 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 12, on ESPN.

(You may need to scroll right to see the complete table)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE/tv schedule AUTOMATIC QUalifier LOCATION
America East
(Bracket)
Quarterfinals: March 1
Semifinals: March 5
Championship: 5 p.m. March 10 on ESPNU 
Vermont Higher seed
American Athletic
(Bracket)
First round: March 6
Quarterfinals: March 7
Semifinals: March 8
Championship: 9 p.m. March 9 on ESPNU
East Carolina Fort Worth, TX
Atlantic 10
(Bracket)
First round: March 1
Second round: March 2
Quarterfinals: March 3
Semifinals: March 4
Championship: 12 p.m. March 5 on ESPNU
Saint Louis Wilmington, DE
ACC
(Bracket)
First round: March 1
Second round: March 2
Quarterfinals: March 3
Semifinals: March 4
Championship: 1 p.m. March 5 on ESPN
Virginia Tech Greensboro, NC 
ASUN
(Bracket)
First round: March 4
Quarterfinals: March 5
Semifinals: March 8
Championship: March 11 on ESPN+
FGCU Campus sites
Big 12
(Bracket)
First round: March 9
Quarterfinals: March 10
Semifinals: March 11
Championship: 2 p.m. March 12 
Iowa State Kansas City, MO
Big East
(Bracket)
First round: March 3
Quarterfinals: March 4
Semifinals: March 5
Championship: 7 p.m. March 6 on FS1
UConn Uncasville, CT
Big Sky
(Bracket)

First round: March 4
Second round: March 5
Quarterfinals: March 6
Semifinals: March 7
Championship: 5 p.m. March 8 on ESPNU

Sacramento State Boise, ID
Big South
(Bracket)
First round: March 1
Quarterfinals: March 2
Semifinals: March 4
Championship: 6 p.m. March 5 on ESPNU
Gardner-Webb Charlotte, NC
Big Ten
(Bracket)
First round: March 1
Second round: March 2
Quarterfinals: March 3
Semifinals: March 4
Championship: 5 p.m. March 5 
Iowa Minneapolis, IN
Big West
(Bracket)
First round: March 7
Quarterfinal: March 8
Semifinals: March 10
Championship: 6 p.m. March 11 on ESPN+
Hawai'i Henderson, NV
CAA
(Bracket)
First round: March 8
Second round: March 9 
Quarterfinals: March 10
Semifinals: March 11
Championship: 2 p.m. March 12 on CBSSN
Monmouth Towson, MD
Conference USA
(Bracket)
First round: March 8
Quarterfinals: March 9
Semifinals: March 10
Championship: 5:30 p.m. March 11 on CBSSN
Middle Tennessee Frisco, TX
Horizon League
(Bracket)
First round: Feb. 28 (campus sites)
Quarterfinals: March 2 (campus sites)
Semifinals: March 6
Championship: 12 p.m. March 7 on ESPNU
Cleveland State Indianapolis, IN (semis on)
Ivy League
(Bracket)
Semifinals: March 10
Championship: 5 p.m. March 11 on ESPNews
Princeton
Princeton, NJ
MAAC
(Bracket)
First round: March 7
Quarterfinals: March 8 and 9
Semifinals: March 10
Championship: 3:30 p.m. March 11 on ESPNU 
Iona Atlantic City, NJ
MAC
(Bracket)

First round: March 8
Quarterfinals: March 10
Semifinals: March 11
Championship: 11 a.m. March 11 on CBSSN

Toledo Cleveland, OH
MEAC
(Bracket)
Quarterfinals: March 8 and 9
Semifinals: March 10
Championship: 4 p.m. March 11 on ESPN+
Norfolk State Norfolk, VA
Missouri Valley
(Bracket)
First round: March 9
Quarterfinals: March 10
Semifinals: March 11
Championship: 2 p.m. March 12 on ESPNU
Drake Moline, IL 
Mountain West
(Bracket)
First round: March 5
Quarterfinals: March 6
Semifinals: March 7
Championship: 10 p.m. March 8 on CBSSN
UNLV Las Vegas, NV
Northeast
(Bracket)
Quarterfinals: March 6
Semifinals: March 9
Championship: 12 p.m. March 12 on ESPNU
Sacred Heart Higher seeds
Ohio Valley
(Bracket)
First round: March 1
Quarterfinals: March 2
Semifinals: March 3
Championship: 3 p.m. March 4 on ESPN+
Tennessee Tech Evansville, IN
Pac-12
(Bracket)
First round: March 1
Quarterfinals: March 2
Semifinals: March 3
Championship: 5 p.m. March 5 on ESPN or ESPN2
Washington State Las Vegas, NV
Patriot League
(Bracket)
First round: March 4
Quarterfinals: March 6
Semifinals: March 9
Championship: 12 p.m. March 12 on CBSSN
Holy Cross Higher seeds
SEC
(Bracket)
First round: March 1
Second round: March 2
Quarterfinals: March 3
Semifinals: March 4
Championship: 3 p.m. March 5 on ESPN
South Carolina Greenville, SC
Southern
(Bracket)
Quarterfinals: March 2
Semifinals: March 3
Championship: 12 p.m. March 5 on ESPN+
Chattanooga Asheville, NC
Southland
(Bracket)
First round: March 5
Quarterfinals: March 6
Semifinals: March 7
Championship: 5 p.m. March 9 on ESPN2
Southeastern Louisiana Lake Charles, LA
SWAC
(Bracket)
Quarterfinals: March 8 and 9
Semifinals: March 10
Championship: 1 p.m. March 11 
Southern Birmingham, AL
Summit League
(Bracket)
First round: March 3 
Quarterfinals: March 4 and 5
Semifinals: March 6
Championship: 2 p.m. March 7 on ESPNU
South Dakota State Sioux Falls, SD
Sun Belt
(Bracket)
First round: Feb. 28 
Second round: March 1
Quarterfinals: March 3
Semifinals: March 5
Championship: March 6 on ESPNU
James Madison Pensacola, FL
West Coast
(Bracket)
First round: March 2
Second round: March 3
Quarterfinals: March 4
Semifinals: March 6
Championship: 4 p.m. March 7 on ESPNU
Portland Las Vegas, NV
WAC
(Bracket)
First round: March 6
Quarterfinals: March 8
Semifinals: March 10
Championship: 6:30 p.m. March 11
Southern Utah Las Vegas, NV

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