The Women's Final Four is returning to American Airlines Center in 2023, the NCAA announced Monday.

Dallas was one of four cities chosen by the Division I Women's Basketball Committee after a 12-month selection process. Other sites selected include San Antonio (2021), Minneapolis (2022) and Cleveland (2024). The Big 12 and the Dallas Sports Commission will serve as co-hosts for the event.

The 2023 #ncaaW Final Four will be played in Dallas!



🏟: American Airlines Center

Women’s Final Four History (1): 2017

Hosts: @Big12Conference, @Dallas_Sports pic.twitter.com/nnHYXpKhip — NCAA WBB (@ncaawbb) September 24, 2018

Dallas and American Airlines Center hosted the Women's Final Four for the first time in 2017, which featured sellout crowds, Mississippi State dramatically ending UConn's 111-game winning streak in the semifinals and South Carolina claiming its first championship.

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said the successful hosting probably played a role in the NCAA's decision to return.

"I think we set television viewing records and in-stadium viewing records. All those are good metrics when you go to bid the next time around," Bowlsby said, praising the work of the Dallas Sports Commission. "It was a good group effort and a great venue in American Airlines Center."

The fact that Dallas has been chosen to host two Women's Final Fours in a six-year period is a potential sign that Dallas may be in the running for more in the future.

"I'm sure we'll be a regular bidder," Bowlsby said. "You're always only as good as your last outing, and we want to put our best foot forward."

Added Monica Paul, executive director of the Dallas Sports Commission: "We want Dallas to be synonymous with women's basketball, and we look forward to making 2023 even bigger and better."

The return of the Women's Final Four is a boost for the North Texas region's hopes of hosting major collegiate championship events.

AT&T Stadium hosted the first College Football Playoff championship game on Jan. 12, 2015, but playoff executives have targeted different host sites every year since, moving the event around the country.

The 2014 men's Final Four at AT&T Stadium set attendance records. However, in three subsequent bidding cycles, the NCAA has gone elsewhere, most recently for 2023-26 when Houston and San Antonio were chosen to host along with Phoenix and Indianapolis.

Bowlsby said that North Texas offers great venues and easy travel but noted that the Big 12 is only part of the effort.

"We want to do our best to host," Bowlsby said. "We'll certainly be willing participants in Women's Final Fours, men's Final Fours or the CFP."