After four NCAA tournament wins apiece, South Carolina, Louisville, UConn and Stanford are the only teams left in contention for a national championship. The hunt continues in Minneapolis, site of Friday’s Final Four and the April 3 championship game.
South Carolina, the AP’s No. 1 wire-to-wire team, will open the Final Four at the Target Center with a 7:00 p.m. game against No. 1-seeded Louisville. It’s a true battle of the giants as both teams have won all but one of the tournament games by double digits.
The national championship matchup will be scheduled after UConn and Stanford play at 9:30 p.m. Stanford, the reigning national champions, face a UConn side set to clinch an exciting 91-87 double overtime win over No. 1-seeded NC State.
Here’s a background to every Final Four matchup.
- The top-ranked Gamecocks slammed the door on Creighton’s #10 Cinderella Run in the Elite Eight and won 80-50 behind a 19-point, 7-rebound performance from Naismith Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year Aliyah Boston . Naismith Coach of the Year Dawn Staley will need a plan to contain Louisville warden Hailey Van Lith, who posted a team-best 22 in Louisville’s 62-50 win over Michigan in the Elite Eight.
After missing 19 games this season with a knee injury, UConn star Paige Bueckers returned to her Naismith Player of the Year form by scoring 27 points – on a 10-of-15 shoot-out – in an exciting one-two in overtime against NC State in the Elite Eight. Next up for the Buckers and UConn is a Stanford team that controlled the color against Texas in the Elite Eight, blocked 11 shots and passed the Longhorns on 17 in a 59-50 win. The Cardinals are two wins away from becoming only the fourth women’s program to win back-to-back NCAA Division I tournaments.
2022 NCAA Women’s Tournament TV Schedule Results
All times East | NCAA Tournament Schedule
| (1) Louisville vs. (1) South Carolina | 7 p.m. | ESPN |
| (2) UConn vs. (1) Stanford | 9:30 p.m. | ESPN |
All 2022 NCAA Women’s Final Four games will be broadcast on ESPN, and you can stream any game on fuboTV (try it for free).