^ The overall scoring leader in women's college basketball is Pearl Moore, who scored 4,061 points from 1975–1979, mostly at Francis Marion (now an NCAA Division II program) after briefly playing at a junior college.[3] The NAIA leader is Grace Beyer, with 3,961 points at UHSP from 2019–2024; Beyer also has the most career points in competition between four-year institutions.[4][5][6 , It was another exceptional season of girls basketball in the Bucks County area. We have six players (and counting) who have signed to play Division 1 ball in college. This season, eight players , The 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was a 68-team single-elimination tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The 42nd edition of the tournament began on March 20, 2024, and concluded with the championship game on April 7, 2024 at , University of California-Berkeley women's basketball team, photographed in 1899 Women's basketball began in the fall of 1892 at Smith College. Senda Berenson, recently hired as a young "physical culture" director at Smith, taught basketball to her students, hoping the activity would improve their physical health. [5] While for men, basketball was designed as an indoor addition to existing team , List of college women's basketball career coaching wins leaders This is a list of college women's basketball coaches by number of career wins. The list includes coaches with at least 600 wins at the NCAA, [1] AIAW and NAIA [2] levels. Geno Auriemma, head coach of the UConn Huskies since 1985, is at the top of the list with 1,250 career wins., As of the most recent college basketball season in 2024–25, 362 women's college basketball programs competed in NCAA Division I, including full D-I members and programs transitioning from a lower NCAA division (most from Division II and one from Division III) [1] Four schools (Bellarmine, Tarleton, UC San Diego, and Utah Tech) completed transitions from Division II at the end of the 2023 .