The Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs to win their second national championship.

The Bulldogs were seeded first in the SEC tournament, where they defeated (9) Kentucky and (5) Texas A&M en route to the championship game, where they fell to (2) South Carolina, 51–62 for their first loss of the season.

The Bulldogs received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, where they were seeded first in the Kansas City regional.

On their run to the title game, Notre Dame defeated (16) Cal State Northridge, (9) Villanova, (4) Texas A&M, and (2) Oregon to get to the Final Four, where they faced and defeated (1) Connecticut in overtime via a made basket by Arike Ogunbowale with 1.0 seconds left.

Brianna Turner, an All-American forward in 2016–17, suffered the injury in the 2017 NCAA tournament and missed the entire season.

Before the title game, McGraw told media, "I didn't think we'd have more ACL tears than losses.

Adam Amin gave the play-by-play, with Kara Lawson and Rebecca Lobo as the color analysts, and Holly Rowe as the sideline reporter.

Maria Taylor, Lobo, Nell Fortner and Andy Landers provided studio coverage.