27 singular accomplishments to celebrate the NCAA women's tournament turning 40

The NCAA women's tournament is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 this year. The men have not seen a champion with a perfect record in 45 seasons. Women have had nine champions in 39 years.

Tennessee won the 1989 national championship without trying a single 3-point shot.

Stanford won the championship last year. There have been 10 Final Four games decided by one point.

Tennessee is ahead of Connecticut at the top of the all-time NCAA tournament victory list.

Sheryl Swoopes scored 47 points in the NCAA women's championship game against Ohio State in 1993.

Charlotte Smith had a buzzer-beating jumper that gave North Carolina the national championship over Louisiana Tech 60-59 in 1994. She wore the same No. 23 as Michael Jordan.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on March 7. Dawn Staley was the Most Outstanding Player in Final Four history. She is now the coach for No. 1 South Carolina.

Connecticut did not advance to the Final Four for the first time since 2007. Paige Bueckers will soon register for kindergarten.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on 9th of March. The highest individual scoring game in the history of the tournament came on the 10th day of existence. Drake's Lorri Bauman scored 50 points in an 89-78 loss to Maryland in 1982 Elite Eight.

Connecticut won five of six NCAA regionals held in the state and went 11-1. North Carolina State is the No. 1 seed in Bridgeport regional.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on 11th March. Duke had the third highest-scoring game in NCAA tournament history with 120 points. Alabama had 121 in the four-overtime shootout. The next game Alabama played was a loss to UConn.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on 12 February. Tennessee is in the field, as always.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 this year. The No. 1 ranked team has won 20 of the 39 championships. No 1 seeds have dominated No 16s in the first round. In recent years, there have been some underdogs to the top seeds.

Tennessee and North Carolina won the national championship 25 and 28 years ago. Eight teams seeded lower than No. 4 have advanced to the Final Four.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on 15 February. C. Vivian Stringer has coached for three of the Final Four teams since then.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 years old on February 16. The SEC has had 39 teams appear in the Final Four, Big East 24, the Big Ten 9, and the B1G 10 and Big 12 9 each.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on March 17. Kansas State's Ayoka Lee scored 61 points in one game. She will play her first NCAA tournament game on Friday against Washington State in Raleigh.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on March 18. Connecticut won the last title in 2016. Stanford won this year's championship.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 years old on March 19th. There have been 20 games in tournament history where a team committed 32 or more turnovers. On the other hand, there have also been 17 games where the team only committed 5 or fewer turnovers, which is a good statistic.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on 20th February. Two coaches have won 19 of the first 39 national titles.

IUPUI, Incarnate Word and Longwood are the 288th, 289th and 290th different schools to play in the NCAA tournament this year. Long Wood's men and women earned their bids the same day.

The South Dakota State women didn't earn an 11th tournament bid despite leading the nation in 3-point field goal percentage. The men's team did earn a tournament spot despite also leading in the 3, but they made it in.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on 23rd March. Notre Dame won five of the six overtime games in the tournament from 2004 to 2018.

Connecticut won four consecutive national championships in 2013-16. The next two seasons they were knocked out of the Final Four on last-second shots by Mississippi State and Notre Dame.

The NCAA women's tournament turns 40 on March 25. Five of the past 15 national championship games have been decided between two teams from the same conference. The men haven't seen such a thing since Kansas-Oklahoma 34 years ago.

Penn State beat Clemson 96-75 in the first round of the NCAA women's tournament in 1982.

The past three national championship games have been decided by 1, 1 and 3 points. Four of the past eight national semifinals have either gone overtime or been settled by a single point. The sport can only hope for the same on April 3 in Minneapolis.