The NCAA has selected two regionals for the girls’s basketball match via at the very least 2028. Las Vegas and Philadelphia will host the 2 2027 regionals and Portland, Oregon, and Washington would be the websites for the 2028 Candy 16.
The NCAA switched to a two-region format in 2023. It will likely be the primary time Philadelphia has hosted girls’s match regional video games since 2011, and the primary time the Wells Fargo Heart has hosted girls’s match video games for the reason that 2000 Remaining 4.
Because the NCAA has two regional-round websites for its Division I girls’s basketball match as a substitute of 4, every web site hosts two bracket quadrants’ value of video games.
The official #MarchMadness preliminary spherical websites and hosts for 2027 and 2028 🙌
👉 https://t.co/ho6Id5FUfI pic.twitter.com/qyZmg2XNV2
— NCAA March Insanity (@MarchMadnessMBB) October 2, 2024
“The collection of Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland, and Washington D.C. to host the 2027 and 2028 regional championships underscores the outstanding development of the Division I Ladies’s Basketball Championship,” NCAA vp of girls’s basketball Lynn Holzman mentioned.
“These cities, acknowledged as epicenters of the game, have a confirmed observe file of internet hosting profitable occasions and possess the mandatory infrastructure to help the increasing championship and its two-site regional format. We lengthen our gratitude to all of the bid cities for his or her participation and stay up for constructing additional momentum for ladies’s basketball.”
Las Vegas will host the NCAA girls’s basketball match for the primary time since 1991 and Washington since 1997
Moreover, that is the primary time that Las Vegas will host the ladies’s match since 1991 and Washington since 1997. Philadelphia shall be internet hosting its first regional since 2011 and fifth general. Portland hosted regional play final yr.
“[Washington] it’s, a terrific, sports activities city and, the consistency of the success that we’ve had. It’ll be nicely attended,” Maryland coach Brenda Frese mentioned. “I feel it makes it much more enjoyable. … I feel it’s been unbelievable how they’ve been in a position to, to make it work with the 2 websites.”
Different NCAA Remaining 4 websites embrace Tampa, Florida (2025), Phoenix (2026), Columbus, Ohio (2027), Indianapolis (2028), San Antonio, Texas (2029), and Dallas (2031). Subsequent yr’s websites are Birmingham, Alabama, and Spokane, Washington. The 2026 websites are Fort Price, Texas, and Sacramento, California.
🚨 ANNOUNCED 🚨
2027 and 2028 NCAA DI Ladies’s Basketball Regional websites.#NCAAWB #NCAAHost pic.twitter.com/HJ4FtNPodV
— NCAA March Insanity (@MarchMadnessWBB) October 2, 2024
In the meantime, the boys’s NCAA Event may have Kansas Metropolis, New York, San Antonio, and Los Angeles host regionals in 2027. The next yr, Raleigh, North Carolina, Detroit, Dallas, and San Francisco will function hosts.
Dayton will proceed to host the First 4 via 2028. Together with the preliminary rounds, the boys’s match will unfold throughout the nation to 25 cities in 18 states over the 2027 and 2028 tournaments.
