Champ Week is well underway in women’s NCAA basketball, and a handful of teams have already punched their tickets to the big dance. The Stanford Cardinal are looking to repeat as national champions after hoisting the trophy in 2021, and they have already earned an automatic qualifier to this year’s tourney with a Pac-12 tournament title.
For the first time, 68 teams make the women’s NCAA tournament as a vote to expand the bracket was approved in the fall of 2021. Thirty-two spots will go to automatic qualifiers, and the other 36 spots being awarded to at-large teams.
The official bracket will be announced on Sunday, March 13 at 8 p.m. on ESPN, shortly after the men’s bracket is revealed.
Here is the current list of teams that have earned a spot in the NCAA tournament: