Women’s Final Four 2022 live: South Carolina and Louisville, UConn and Stanford

After collecting four NCAA Tournament wins apiece, South Carolina, Louisville, UConn and Stanford are the only teams left hunting for a national championship. The hunt will continue in Minneapolis, the host of Friday’s Final Four and the championship game on April 3. 

South Carolina, the AP’s wire-to-wire No. 1 team, will open the Final Four at the Target Center with a 7 p.m. game against No. 1 seed Louisville. It’s a true clash of giants, as both teams have won all but one of their tournament games by double-digits. 

The national championship matchup will be set after UConn and Stanford play at 9:30 p.m. Stanford, the reigning national champion, will face a UConn squad coming off a thrilling 91-87 double-overtime victory against No. 1 seed NC State. 

Here’s some background for each Final Four matchup. 

• The top-seeded Gamecocks slammed the door on No. 10 seed Creighton’s Cinderella Run in the Elite Eight, winning 80-50 behind a 19-point, seven-rebound performance from Naismith Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year Aliyah Boston. Naismith Coach of the Year Dawn Staley will need a plan to contain Louisville guard Hailey Van Lith, who scored a team-high 22 in Louisville’s 62-50 win over Michigan in the Elite Eight. 

• After missing 19 games with a knee injury this season, UConn star Paige Bueckers returned to her Naismith Player of the Year form by scoring 27 points – on 10-of-15 shooting – in a thrilling double-overtime win over NC State in the Elite Eight. Up next for Bueckers and UConn is a Stanford team that controlled the paint against Texas in the Elite Eight, blocking 11 shots and outrebounding the Longhorns by 17 in a 59-50 victory. The Cardinal are two wins away from becoming just the fourth women’s program to win back-to-back Division I NCAA Tournaments.

2022 Women’s NCAA Tournament TV schedule, scores

All times Eastern | NCAA Tournament schedule

All of the 2022 Women’s NCAA Tournament Final Four games will air on ESPN, and you can stream every game on fuboTV (try for free).