Going into the game, UConn and Syracuse had met 49 times in women's basketball, mostly when both teams were in the Following that season, Syracuse and two other Big East schools left for the The 2016 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship Game was played on April 5, 2016, at Syracuse shot only 35.5 percent from the floor, compared to Connecticut's 51.9 percent, and the Orange found themselves in a 50–23 hole at halftime.
The 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, played to determine the national champion for the 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.
Subregionals Tournament & automatic qualifiers proceduresSubregionals Tournament & automatic qualifiers procedures2016 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournaments Michigan State was a 4 seed, but was unable to host because the Spartans' home of the A total of 64 teams entered the 2016 tournament. The Connecticut Huskies (UConn) defeated the Syracuse Orange to win their fourth consecutive championship. They completed a seven-season tenure in the Big East Conference.
Fourth-seeded Stanford defeated the number one seed in their region, Notre Dame.
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The process was generally followed in 2016, with the exception that if one of the top 16 teams was unable to host, another team would be selected. Syracuse scored 16 straight points to get within 60–43 with 2:02 left in the third quarter, but the Huskies went on a 22–8 run to end the game.The Championship Game was broadcast in the United States by ESPN. This was the first Division I women's championship game to be played in quarters instead of halves, following an NCAA rule change for women's basketball only that took effect in the 2015–16 season. The official box score of Women's Basketball vs Chattanooga on 11/29/2016 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 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. The official Women's Basketball page for the University of Connecticut Huskies Kentucky had the chance to play all of its regional games in its home city.
The Final Four was played at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The subregional was held on the Kentucky campus at the women's primary home of Five teams made their first-ever tournament appearance: Upsets were the theme of the day on the first round of Sweet 16 play. The official 2020-21 Women's Basketball Roster for the University of Connecticut Huskies The official box score of Women's Basketball vs Nebraska on 12/21/2016
This was the last Women's Final Four to be played on the then Sunday/Tuesday schedule.
Starting in 2017, the Final Four was changed to a Friday/Sunday schedule, which it used from its inception in 1982 through 1990, then again from 1996 through 2002.The first two rounds, also referred to as the subregionals were played at the sites of the top 16 seeds, as was done in 2015. During the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region plays the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region, and the champion of the second overall top seed's region plays the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region. In all four contests, the lower seated team knocked off the higher seeded team. Fourth-seeded Syracuse took out the number one seed in their region, South Carolina. The regional locations were four neutral sites: Bridgeport, Connecticut, Dallas, Lexington, Kentucky, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Of the 32 automatic bids, 31 were given to teams that won their respective The following teams automatically qualified for the 2016 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid). The UConn Huskies women's basketball team is the college basketball program representing the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, in NCAA Division I women's basketball competition. The UConn Huskies are the most successful women's basketball program in the nation, having won a record 11 NCAA Division I … The 2016 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament was played between March and April 2016, with the Final Four played April 3 & 5.