The 2026 NCAA Match has arrived, and girls’s March Insanity formally started Wednesday with the First 4. The 68-team subject was unveiled Sunday evening, and we all know when and the place everybody might be taking part in this weekend.
UConn, the undefeated reigning champion, was named the No. 1 general seed. UCLA, Texas and South Carolina joined them on the highest line. These 4 groups, the title favorites, are among the many 16 groups that can host video games within the first and second rounds subsequent weekend. Each 1-4 seed within the subject will play host earlier than the motion shifts to the regional websites later within the month. As soon as once more, there are simply two regional websites for the ladies’s event: Sacramento and Fort Price. The 2026 Ultimate 4 is ready for Phoenix, with the championship recreation on Sunday, April 5.
Sport occasions and TV info for the First 4 and the primary spherical had been introduced on Sunday evening as nicely. The complete schedule for the primary 4 days of the 2026 NCAA Match is beneath.
Fill out your brackets now and enter them into our Bracket Problem in your probability to win a dream journey to the 2027 Ultimate 4Ⓡ.
2026 NCAA Ladies’s NCAA Match schedule
All occasions Japanese. All video games can be found to stream on fubo (Attempt free of charge).
Wednesday, March 18: First 4
- Nebraska 75, Richmond 56
- Missouri State 85, Stephen F. Austin 75
Thursday, March 19: First 4
- Southern 65, Samford 53
- Virginia 57, Arizona State 55
Friday, March 20: First spherical
- No. 3 Duke vs. No. 14 Charleston, 11:30 a.m., ESPN2
- No. 3 TCU vs. No. 14 UC San Diego, 12 p.m., ESPN
- No. 8 Oregon vs. No. 9 Virginia Tech, 1:30 p.m., ESPN2
- No. 6 Baylor vs. No. 11 Nebraska, 2 p.m., ESPN
- No. 6 Washington vs. No. 11 South Dakota State, 2:30 p.m., ESPNews
- No. 5 Maryland vs. No. 12 Murray State, 3 p.m., ESPNU
- No. 5 Ole Miss vs. No. 12 Gonzaga, 3:30 p.m., ESPN2
- No. 1 Texas vs. No. 16 Missouri State, 4 p.m., ESPN
- No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 15 Holy Cross, 5:30 p.m., ESPN2
- No. 4 North Carolina vs. No. 13 Western Illinois, 5:30 p.m., ESPNews
- No. 2 LSU vs. No. 15 Jacksonville, 6 p.m., ESPN
- No. 4 Minnesota vs. No. 13 Inexperienced Bay, 6 p.m., ESPNU
- No. 5 Michigan State vs. No. 12 Colorado State, 7:30 p.m. ESPNews
- No. 7 NC State vs. No. 10 Tennessee, 8 p.m., ESPN
- No. 7 Texas Tech vs. No. 10 Villanova, 8:30 p.m., ESPNU
- No. 4 Oklahoma vs. No. 13 Idaho, 10 p.m., ESPN
Saturday, March 21: First spherical
- No. 3 Ohio State vs. No. 14 Howard, 11:30 a.m., ESPN2
- No. 3 Louisville vs. No. 14 Vermont, 12 p.m., ESPN
- No. 1 South Carolina vs. No. 16 Southern/Samford, 1 p.m., ABC
- No. 7 Georgia vs. No 10 Virginia/Arizona State, 1:30 p.m., ESPN2
- No. 6 Notre Dame vs. No. 11 Fairfield, 2 p.m., ESPN
- No. 5 Kentucky vs. No. 12 James Madison, 2:30 p.m., ESPNU
- No. 6 Alabama vs. No. 11 Rhode Island, 2:30 p.m., ESPNews
- No. 1 UConn vs. No. 16 UTSA, 3 p.m., ABC
- No. 8 Clemson vs. No. 9 USC, 3:30 p.m., ESPN2
- No. 2 Iowa vs. No. 15 Fairleigh Dickinson, 4 p.m., ESPN
- No. 4 West Virginia vs. No. 13 Miami (Ohio), 5 p.m., ESPNU
- No. 8 Iowa State vs. No. 9 Syracuse, 5:30 p.m., ESPN2
- No. 2 Vanderbilt vs. No. 15 Excessive Level, 7 p.m., ESPNews
- No. 8 Oklahoma State vs. No. 9 Princeton, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2
- No. 7 Illinois vs. No. 10 Colorado, 9:30 p.m., ESPN2
- No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 16 Cal Baptist, 10 p.m., ESPN
Sunday, March 22: Second spherical
Monday, March 23: Second spherical
Friday, March 27: Candy 16
- 4 Candy 16 video games in Fort Price and Sacramento
Saturday, March 28: Candy 16
- 4 Candy 16 video games in Fort Price and Sacramento
Sunday, March 29: Elite Eight
- Two Elite Eight video games in Fort Price and Sacramento
Monday, March 30: Elite Eight
- Two Elite Eight video games in Fort Price and Sacramento
Friday, April 3
- Two Ultimate 4 video games in Phoenix
Sunday, April 5
- Championship recreation in Phoenix, 3:30 p.m. ET on ABC/fubo
And this is the total NCAA Match bracket, which might be up to date as the sector is revealed:
2026 NCAA Match girls’s bracket
UConn, led by Sarah Sturdy and Azzi Fudd, is the heavy favourite to win all of it and full one other excellent season. If the Huskies win all of it, they’ll develop into the eleventh crew to go undefeated and the primary crew to win back-to-back titles since they received 4 in a row from 2013-16.
2026 girls’s NCAA Match title odds
Odds as of March 18 by way of DraftKings
- UConn: -265
- UCLA: +550
- Texas: +700
- South Carolina: +800
- LSU: +1600
- Vanderbilt: +5000
- Michigan: +8000
- Iowa: +10000
- Duke: +10000
- Louisville: +10000
