2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game

NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game
National championship game
UConn Huskies South Carolina Gamecocks
Big East SEC
(36–3) (35–3)
82 59
Head coach:
Geno Auriemma
Head coach:
Dawn Staley
1234 Total
UConn Huskies 19172620 82
South Carolina Gamecocks 14121617 59
DateApril 6, 2025
VenueAmalie Arena, Tampa, Florida
MVPAzzi Fudd, UConn
FavoriteUConn by 5.5
Referees
  • Gina Cross
  • Maj Forsberg
  • Felicia Grinter
Attendance19,777
National anthemAyla Brown
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC
Announcers
Nielsen Ratings(8.6 million)

The 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. It determined the champion of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and was contested by the No. 2 seed UConn Huskies from the Big East Conference and the No. 1 seed South Carolina Gamecocks from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game was played on April 6, 2025, at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. UConn defeated South Carolina, 82–59, to win the school's twelfth national championship and their first since 2016.

The teams traded the lead for much of the first quarter; South Carolina's Te-Hina Paopao scored the game's first points, and Sarah Strong, Chloe Kitts, Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd, and Raven Johnson all scored in the first five minutes, after which UConn led by one point. The final four minutes of the first quarter saw only four points scored, all by UConn. The Huskies' lead expanded to nine early in the second, and, despite a South Carolina effort that brought the deficit to three points with about six minutes remaining, the Huskies pushed the lead back up to eleven and ultimately entered halftime with a ten-point advantage. By halfway through the third quarter, UConn's lead was thirteen; another offensive run by the Huskies resulted in a 20-point lead at the end of the third quarter. KK Arnold scored seven points for UConn in the fourth quarter, and the Huskies totaled twenty as a team, finishing the game 23-point winners.