DIVISION I

Field: 64 teams.

Selection date: March 10.

2001 champion: Notre Dame.

Top team contenders: Connecticut, Stanford, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Duke, Purdue.

Players to watch: LaNeishea Caufield, Oklahoma; Chantelle Anderson, Vanderbilt; Alana Beard, Duke; Diana Taurasi, Connecticut; Angie Welle, Iowa State; Sheila Lambert, Baylor.

DIVISION II

Dates and sites: Regional games will be played March 13-15 or 14-16 on campus sites. The Women's Elite Eight will be March 20, 21 and 23 in Rochester, Minnesota.

Field: 48 teams.

Selection date: March 3.

2001 champion: Cal Poly Pomona.

Top team contenders: Cal Poly Pomona, Missouri Western State, American International, Mesa State, Lake Superior State.

Players to watch: Alice Duesing, Lake Superior State; Heather Garay, Cal State Bakersfield; Rhona McKenzie, American International; Lauri McIntosh, Cal Poly Pomona.

DIVISION III

Dates and sites: First-round games will be at campus sites February 27; second-round games will be March 2 at selected campuses; and sectionals will be on campus March 8-9. The finals will be played March 15-16 in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Field: 50 teams.

Selection date: February 24.

2001 champion: Washington (Missouri).

Top team contenders: Washington (Missouri), Marymount (Virginia), Bowdoin, DePauw, Wilmington (Ohio).

Players to watch: Candice Brown, Marymount (Virginia); Robin Lahargoue, Washington (Missouri); Sarah MacKay, DePauw; Lora Trenkle, Bowdoin; Tara Rausch, Wilmington (Ohio).

The last two Division II championship games have been won in overtime. Northern Kentucky needed an extra session in 2000 to dispatch North Dakota State, 71-62, and Cal Poly Pomona won last year's game over North Dakota in overtime, 87-80. Those two games are the only overtime championship contests in the tournament's 20-year history.