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answers.span_text: South Carolina Gamecocks
questions: who won the ncaa women's championship last year 2017
name: 2017 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
contexts: 2017 NCAA Division I Women 's Basketball Tournament Season 2016 -- 17 Teams 64 Finals site American Airlines Center Dallas , Texas Champions South Carolina Gamecocks ( 1st title , 1st title game , 2nd Final Four ) Runner - up Mississippi State Bulldogs ( 1st title game , 1st Final Four ) Semifinalists Connecticut Huskies ( 18th Final Four ) Stanford Cardinal ( 13th Final Four ) Winning coach Dawn Staley ( 1st title ) MOP A'ja Wilson ( South Carolina ) NCAA Division I Women 's Tournaments `` 2016 2018 ''