The 2013 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament was played from March 23 through April 9, 2013. Tennessee continued its streak of making every NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at 32 consecutive appearances. Kansas made the Regional Semifinals for the second year in a row as a double-digit seed, UConn made it into the Final Four for the sixth consecutive year, the longest such streak, and Louisville became the first team seeded lower than fourth in a region to advance to the championship game. For the first time in tournament history, the same four teams were #1 seeds as in the previous year.

The format is similar to the Men's Tournament, except that there are 64 teams; this in turn means there is no "First Four" round. Thirty-one automatic bids for conference champions and 33 at-large bids are available.

The subregionals will be played from March 23 through March 26. Sites chosen to host first- and second-round games in 2013 include:

The Regionals, named for the city rather than the region of geographic importance since 2005, which will be held from March 30 to April 2, will be at these sites:

A regional had been scheduled at Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey. However, the NCAA moved the regional to Connecticut because of a recently passed state law allowing single-game betting for professional and collegiate games. NCAA rules do not allow tournament events to be held in states that allow single-game betting.

The Final Four will be held on April 7 & 9 at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, hosted by the University of New Orleans. This is the third time the Final Four will be played in New Orleans. The event was held in this city in 1991, at the Kiefer Lakefront UNO Arena. The event returned to the city in 2004, when the games were held at the New Orleans Arena.

The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2013 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).

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