Where are all the schools in the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament located?
To get there, teams will pass through Los Angeles, Baton Rouge, La., Chapel Hill, N.C. and Fort Worth, Texas, to name just a few sites. While we know where the schools are going to play, where does each team hail from?
mapped out the entire women’s March Madness field and the distance these teams must travel for Round 1. Distances were calculated using the shortest driving route between each school and the host city via Google Maps.
The top four seeds in each of the four brackets host games in the first and second rounds. Neutral-site games start during the Sweet 16 and will be held in Spokane, Wash., and Birmingham, Ala. The final two teams left standing will meet in Florida for the championship.
Spoiler: Richmond, Oregon and Oregon State have some of the farthest ways to go physically, traveling more than 2,600 miles each for Round 1. They might have an easier time flying through the bracket. It is March, after all. Expect the unexpected.
Spokane 1
No. 8 Richmond has the farthest first-round jaunt in this region, having to travel 2,611 miles to Los Angeles for its game against Georgia Tech. To be fair, however, the Yellow Jackets have a pretty long trip themselves — 2,178 miles. No. 6 Florida State has the easiest journey in this region, with a 441-mile trek west to Baton Rouge, La.
No. 1 UCLA | Los Angeles, Calif.
Host
No. 2 NC State | Raleigh, N.C.
Host
No. 3 LSU | Baton Rouge, La.
Host
No. 4 Baylor | Waco, Texas
Host
No. 5 Ole Miss | University, Miss.
Will travel 604 miles to Waco, Texas
No. 6 Florida State | Tallahassee, Fla.
Will travel 441 miles to Baton Rouge, La.
No. 7 Michigan State | East Lansing, Mich.
Will travel 724 miles to Raleigh, N.C.
No. 8 Richmond | Richmond, Va.
Will travel 2,611 miles to Los Angeles, Calif.
No. 9 Georgia Tech | Atlanta, Ga.
Will travel 2,178 miles to Los Angeles, Calif.
No. 10 Harvard | Cambridge, Mass.
Will travel 714 miles to Raleigh, N.C.
No. 11 George Mason | Fairfax, Va.
Will travel 1,126 miles to Baton Rouge, La.
No. 12 Ball State | Muncie, Ind.
Will travel 1,029 miles to Waco, Texas
No. 13 Grand Canyon | Phoenix, Ariz.
Will travel 1,053 miles to Waco, Texas
No. 14 San Diego State | San Diego, Calif.
Will travel 1,729 miles to Baton Rouge, La.
No. 15 Vermont | Burlington, Vt.
Will travel 792 miles to Raleigh, N.C.
No. 16 Southern U | Baton Rouge, La.
Will travel 1,839 miles to Los Angeles, Calif.
Birmingham 2
The committee was not kind to the schools from Oregon, sending the University of Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers across the country for games in North Carolina. The Ducks have the longest trip in the entire tournament — 2,863 miles to Durham, where they’ll face Vanderbilt. The Beavers go almost as far — 2,854 miles to Chapel Hill, where they’ll try to keep their surprising run going against the host Tar Heels.
No. 1 South Carolina | Columbia, S.C.
Host
No. 2 Duke | Durham, N.C.
Host
No. 3 North Carolina | Chapel Hill, N.C.
Host
No. 4 Maryland | College Park, Md.
Host
No. 5 Alabama | Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Will travel 811 miles to College Park, Md.
No. 6 West Virginia | Morgantown, W.V.
Will travel 374 miles to Chapel Hill, N.C.
No. 7 Vanderbilt | Nashville, Tenn.
Will travel 517 miles to Durham, N.C.
No. 8 Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah
Will travel 2,064 miles to Columbia, S.C.
No. 9 Indiana | Bloomington, Ind.
Will travel 609 miles to Columbia, S.C.
No. 10 Oregon | Eugene, Ore.
Will travel 2,863 miles to Durham, N.C.
No. 11 Columbia | New York, N.Y.
Will travel 509 miles to Chapel Hill, N.C.
No. 12 Green Bay | Green Bay, Wisc.
Will travel 903 miles to College Park, Md.
No. 13 Norfolk State | Norfolk, Va.
Will travel 214 miles to College Park, Md.
No. 14 Oregon State | Corvallis, Ore.
Will travel 2,854 miles to Chapel Hill, N.C.
No. 15 Lehigh | Bethlehem, Pa.
Will travel 440 miles to Durham, N.C.
No. 16 Tennessee Tech | Cookeville, Tenn.
Will travel 365 miles to Columbia, S.C.
Birmingham 3
Michigan has a breezy, 179-mile trip to Notre Dame, Indiana, where the Wolverines will take on Iowa State. That’s easily the shortest trip for any non-host team in the tournament. The Bobcats of Montana State, meanwhile, have the longest first-round journey in this region, a 1,722-mile trip to Columbus, Ohio. Even worse, they have to face the Buckeyes on their home court.
No. 1 Texas | Austin, Texas
Host
No. 2 TCU | Fort Worth, Texas
Host
No. 3 Notre Dame | Notre Dame, Ind.
Host
No. 4 Ohio State | Columbus, Ohio
Host
No. 5 Tennessee | Knoxville, Tenn.
Will travel 356 miles to Columbus, Ohio
No. 6 Michigan | Ann Arbor, Mich.
Will travel 179 miles to Notre Dame, Ind.
No. 7 Louisville | Louisville, Ky.
Will travel 865 miles to Fort Worth, Texas
No. 8 Illinois | Champaign, Ill.
Will travel 997 miles to Austin, Texas
No. 9 Creighton | Omaha, Neb.
Will travel 839 miles to Austin, Texas
No. 10 Nebraska | Lincoln, Neb.
Will travel 604 miles to Fort Worth, Texas
No. 11 Iowa State | Ames, Iowa
Will travel 425 miles to Notre Dame, Ind.
No. 12 South Florida | Tampa, Fla.
Will travel 1,015 miles to Columbus, Ohio
No. 13 Montana State | Bozeman, Mont.
Will travel 1,722 miles to Columbus, Ohio
No. 14 Stephen F. Austin | Nacogdoches, Texas
Will travel 998 miles to Notre Dame, Ind.
No. 15 Fairleigh Dickinson | Hackensack, N.J.
Will travel 1,558 miles to Fort Worth, Texas
No. 16 William and Mary | Williamsburg, Va.
Will travel 1,522 miles to Austin, Texas
Spokane 4
No. 16 seed UNC Greensboro not only has the longest first-round trip in this region (2,465 miles to Los Angeles), it will also have top seed USC and star JuJu Watkins waiting to play host at Galen Center. No. 9 Mississippi State will also be in that group and will travel 1,975 miles to join the party.
No. 1 USC | Los Angeles, Calif.
Host
No. 2 UConn | Storrs, Conn.
Host
No. 3 Oklahoma | Norman, Okla.
Host
No. 4 Kentucky | Lexington, Ky.
Host
No. 5 Kansas State | Manhattan, Kan.
Will travel 705 miles to Lexington, Ky.
No. 6 Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa
Will travel 668 miles to Norman, Okla.
No. 7 Oklahoma State | Stillwater, Okla.
Will travel 1,553 miles to Storrs, Conn.
No. 8 California | Berkeley, Calif.
Will travel 372 miles to Los Angeles, Calif.
No. 9 Mississippi State | Starkville, Miss.
Will travel 1,975 miles to Los Angeles, Calif.
No. 10 South Dakota State | Brookings, S.D.
Will travel 1,496 miles to Storrs, Conn.
No. 11 Murray State | Murray, Ky.
Will travel 617 miles to Norman, Okla.
No. 12 Fairfield | Fairfield, Conn.
Will travel 764 miles to Lexington, Ky.
No. 13 Liberty | Lynchburg, Va.
Will travel 414 miles to Lexington, Ky.
No. 14 Florida Gulf Coast | Fort Myers, Fla.
Will travel 1,423 miles to Norman, Okla.
No. 15 Arkansas State | Jonesboro, Ark.
Will travel 1,273 miles to Storrs, Conn.
No. 16 UNC Greensboro | Greensboro, N.C.
Will travel 2,465 miles to Los Angeles, Calif.
This article originally appeared in The Athletic.
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