The regional locations were four neutral sites: Bridgeport, Connecticut, Dallas, Lexington, Kentucky, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

[2] UConn won their fourth consecutive national championship, defeating Syracuse 82–51.

[3] Tennessee continued its record streak of making every NCAA women's basketball tournament at 35 consecutive appearances.

The basis for the subregionals returned to the approach used between 1982 and 2002; the top sixteen teams, as chosen in the bracket selection process, hosted the first two rounds on campus.

Princeton became the first Ivy League team to ever receive an at-large bid in either the Division I men's or women's tournament.

Five teams made their first-ever tournament appearance: Buffalo, Central Arkansas, Duquesne, Iona, and Jacksonville.

Fourth-seeded Stanford defeated the number one seed in their region, Notre Dame.

Seventh-seeded Washington played third-seeded Kentucky on their own (secondary) court and won the game — becoming the first team to win a true road game in the Sweet Sixteen round since North Carolina defeated Arizona State in 2005[7] — to move on to the Elite Eight.

, Denise Brooks (U1) Kyle Bacon (U2) Lisa Jones(U1) Beverly Roberts (U2) Source[83] ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament.