The NCAA Division I Girls’s Basketball Committee introduced the 5 cities chosen to host the NCAA Girls’s Closing 4 from 2027 via 2031. The cities embody 4 previous hosts and one new location, with Columbus, Ohio (Nationwide Area) chosen to host in 2027; Indianapolis (Gainbridge Fieldhouse) in 2028; San Antonio (Alamodome) in 2029; Portland, Oregon (Moda Middle) in 2030; and Dallas (American Airways Middle) in 2031.
“The Girls’s Closing 4 is the premier girls’s basketball occasion within the nation, and it’s thrilling to see the unprecedented quantity of curiosity from cities to host sooner or later,” stated Lisa Peterson, chair of the committee and senior affiliate commissioner for sports activities administration with the Pac-12 Convention. “The committee appreciates all of the cities concerned within the extremely aggressive bid course of. After we crown a nationwide champion within the chosen cities, our student-athletes, coaches and followers may have loved a tremendous championship expertise.”
Columbus and Nationwide Area beforehand hosted in 2018 in one of many extra memorable Girls’s Closing Fours that featured two time beyond regulation nationwide semifinal video games for the primary time and a nationwide championship sport selected a buzzer beater. Notre Dame captured its second nationwide title when Irish guard Arike Ogunbowale etched her title into Girls’s Closing 4 lore with game-winning pictures in each the nationwide semifinals and nationwide championship sport.
Indianapolis has hosted the Girls’s Closing 4 thrice beforehand in 2005 (RCA Dome), 2011 and 2016. In 2016, when the occasion was held at what was then Bankers Life Fieldhouse, now Gainbridge Fieldhouse, UConn (38-0) received its fourth consecutive nationwide championship, a first-time prevalence in Division I girls’s basketball. With an 82-51 defeat of Syracuse within the nationwide championship sport that 12 months, UConn earned its eleventh title, tying the UCLA males’s basketball workforce’s all-time mark for Division I championships.
San Antonio has beforehand hosted the Girls’s Closing 4 thrice, in 2002, 2010 and 2021. In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, San Antonio and the encircling area performed host to the whole 63-game NCAA Division I Girls’s Basketball Championship, which relied on a managed surroundings. The Alamodome was the location when Stanford claimed the 2021 title in entrance of a restricted capability viewers however was additionally the location in 2002 when the all-time Girls’s Closing 4 attendance report was set when 29,619 had been on the nationwide semifinal video games and the nationwide championship sport.
Portland will likely be internet hosting the Girls’s Closing 4 for the primary time in 2030. It can additionally mark the primary time that the occasion is carried out within the state of Oregon. Portland and the Moda Middle beforehand hosted NCAA Division I Girls’s Basketball Championship regional play in 2019, was set to host in 2020 earlier than the cancellation of the championship and can accomplish that once more in 2024.
Dallas, which is already making ready to host the Girls’s Closing 4 and the Division II and III girls’s basketball nationwide championship video games in 2023 (March 31-April 2), will likely be internet hosting for a 3rd time in 2031. In 2017, the American Airways Middle performed host to one of many greatest upsets in Girls’s Closing 4 historical past when Mississippi State ended UConn’s historic 111-game profitable streak within the nationwide semifinals. Bulldogs junior guard Morgan William’s jumper on the time beyond regulation buzzer gave the Bulldogs a 66-64 win that additionally ended a 28-game NCAA event profitable streak by UConn. South Carolina went on to win its first NCAA nationwide championship that season, defeating Mississippi State within the title sport.
Along with Dallas in 2023, the opposite cities beforehand chosen to host earlier than 2027 are Cleveland (Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, April 5 and seven, 2024); Tampa Bay, Florida (Amalie Area, April 4 and 6, 2025); and Phoenix (Footprint Middle, April 3 and 5, 2026). Beneath is a whole record of future Girls’s Closing 4 host websites from 2023 to 2031.
NCAA Girls’s Closing 4 Future Host Cities
| YEAR/DATES | CITY | HOST | FACILITY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023: March 31 and April 2 | Dallas | Large 12 Convention and the Dallas Sports activities Fee | American Airways Middle |
| 2024: April 5 and seven | Cleveland | Mid American Convention and the Better Cleveland Sports activities Fee | Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse |
| 2025: April 4 and 6 | Tampa Bay, Florida | College of South Florida and the Tampa Bay Sports activities Fee | Amalie Area |
| 2026: April 3 and 5 | Phoenix | Arizona State College | Footprint Middle |
| 2027: April 2 and 4 | Columbus, Ohio | The Ohio State College and the Better Columbus Sports activities Fee | Nationwide Area |
| 2028: March 31 and April 2 | Indianapolis | Horizon League, Indiana College-Purdue College Indianapolis and the Indiana Sports activities Corp | Gainbridge Fieldhouse |
| 2029: March 30 and April 1 | San Antonio | College of the Incarnate Phrase, College of Texas at San Antonio and San Antonio Sports activities | Alamodome |
| 2030: April 5 and seven | Portland, Oregon | College of Portland and Sport Oregon | Moda Middle |
| 2031: April 4 and 6 | Dallas | Large 12 Convention and the Dallas Sports activities Fee | American Airways Middle |
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