For the next two-plus weeks, the best women’s college basketball programs and players will traverse the nation as they vie for a chance to achieve their game’s most coveted feat — winning a championship.
The national title game is on April 7 in Cleveland, Ohio, where a singular victor will be crowned after the NCAA Tournament field is whittled down from an original 68 teams.
Two squads have already been sent home, with two more First Four games Thursday and first-round action Friday and Saturday.
Some of the competing teams — including regional hosts like No. 1 seeds South Carolina, Iowa, Southern California and Texas — won’t have to travel far. Others will make a coast-to-coast journey.
Norfolk State will have the longest trek, as more than 2,500 miles sit between Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall and Stanford’s Maples Pavilion. And if you don’t have the slightest idea where Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall is located, no sweat.
That’s why The Athletic has mapped out the entire women’s March Madness field. We looked into the distance these teams must travel for Round 1, too.
You might learn something new — like how far Orono, Maine, is from Columbus, Ohio, or that Middle Tennessee State really is an apt name for the school. The Norfolk State answer, by the way, is…
