INDIANAPOLIS — Seven cities have been chosen by the Division I Girls’s Basketball Committee as finalists to host the NCAA Girls’s Last 4 from 2027 by 2031. The cities nonetheless being thought-about embrace Columbus, Ohio (Nationwide Area); Dallas (American Airways Middle); Indianapolis (Gainbridge Fieldhouse); Portland, Oregon (Moda Middle); Sacramento, California (Golden 1 Middle); San Antonio (Alamodome); and Tampa, Florida (Amalie Area).
“We’re grateful to all the cities that submitted bids to host future Girls’s Last Fours,” stated Nina King, chair of the committee and athletics director at Duke. “The elevated curiosity on this bid cycle, from so many cities all through the nation, is a results of the continual development of girls’s basketball and help for this premier nationwide ladies’s championship. We’re assured {that a} Girls’s Last 4 held at any of those websites would flourish.”
Finalist cities will submit remaining bids by July 1, and employees and committee members will conduct website visits by August and September. The finalist cities will probably be requested to ship displays to the committee mid-November, after which the committee will vote and announce the long run host cities for the years 2027-2031.
Each Sacramento and Portland are bidding to host their first Girls’s Last 4. Columbus hosted in 2018 and Dallas hosted in 2017 and can host once more in 2023, whereas Indianapolis (2005, 2011 and 2016), San Antonio (2002, 2010 and 2021) and Tampa (2008, 2015 and 2019) have every hosted a number of instances.
The 2023 Girls’s Last 4 at American Airways Middle in Dallas will deliver collectively the championship video games for all three NCAA divisions. Cleveland (Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse) will host in 2024, adopted by Tampa (Amalie Area) in 2025. Phoenix (Footprint Middle) will host for the primary time in 2026.
For the most recent Girls’s Last 4 info, go to ncaa.com/womensfinalfour
