south carolina won the 2017 women's ncaa tournament.
south carolina won the 2017 women's ncaa tournament.
who won the 2017 women's ncaa tournament?
south carolina
prior to 1975, only one team per conference could be in the ncaa tournament. however, after several highly ranked teams in the country were denied entrance into the tournament (e.g., south carolina, which was 14-0 in acc regular season play during 1970 but lost in the acc tournament; southern cal, which was ranked #2 in the nation during 1971; and maryland, which was ranked #3 in the nation in 1974 but lost the acc tournament championship game to eventual national champion north carolina state), the ncaa began to place at-large teams in the tournament, instead of just conference champions. at times during the pre-at-large era, the nit tournament competed for prestige with the ncaa tournament. however, in the 1950s the ncaa ruled that no team could compete in both tournaments. but when 8th ranked marquette declined its invitation in 1970 after coach al mcguire complained about the warriors' regional placement and instead went to the nit (which it won), the ncaa changed the rule to forbid a team that declines an ncaa tournament bid from participating in any post-season tournament. since then, the ncaa tournament has clearly been the major one, with conference champions and the majority of the top-ranked teams participating in it.
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the 2017 women's national invitation tournament was an annual single-elimination tournament of 64 ncaa division i teams that were not selected to participate in the 2017 women's ncaa tournament. the tournament committee announced the 64-team field on march 13, following the selection of the ncaa tournament field. the tournament began on march 15 and ended on april 1, with the championship game televised on the cbs sports network. in the championship game, the michigan wolverines defeated the georgia tech yellow jackets, 89–79, in triple overtime.









































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2017 women's national invitation tournament