NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament

This folder contains the data behind the story The Rise And Fall Of Women’s NCAA Tournament Dynasties.

womens_basketball_ncaa_history.csv contains data for every team that has participated in the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament since it began in 1982. Every school is shown with its seed, conference record (when available), regular-season record, tournament record and full season record, including winning percentages. More information about select columns is in the table below. All data is from the NCAA.

Column	Notes
`seed`	The `(OR)` seeding designation in 1983 notes the eight teams that played an opening-round game to become the No. 8 seed in each region.
`How qual`	Whether the school qualified with an automatic bid (by winning its conference or conference tournament) or an at-large bid.
`1st game at home`	Whether the school played its first-round tournament games on its home court.
`Tourney finish`	The round of the final game for each team. OR=opening-round loss (1983 only); 1st=first-round loss; 2nd=second-round loss; RSF=loss in the Sweet 16; RF=loss in the Elite Eight; NSF=loss in the national semifinals; N2nd=national runner-up; Champ=national champions