2017 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament

2017 NCAA Division I
women's basketball tournament

Season	2016–17
Teams	64
Finals site	American Airlines Center Dallas, Texas
Champions	South Carolina Gamecocks (1st title, 1st title game, 2nd Final Four)
Runner-up	Mississippi State Bulldogs (1st title game, 1st Final Four)
Semifinalists	UConn Huskies (18th Final Four) Stanford Cardinal (13th Final Four)
Winning coach	Dawn Staley (1st title)
MOP	A'ja Wilson (South Carolina)
NCAA Division I women's tournaments «2016 2018»

The 2017 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was played from Friday, March 17 to Sunday, April 2, 2017, with the Final Four played at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on March 31 and April 2. This was the first time that the women's Final Four was played in Dallas and the first time since 2002 that the Final Four games were played on Friday and Sunday, rather than Sunday and Tuesday.^[1] South Carolina defeated Mississippi State to win the championship.

Tennessee continued its record streak of making every NCAA women's basketball tournament at 36 consecutive appearances. UConn also continued its record streak of 10 consecutive Final Four appearances.