LSU is going to the women's national championship game for the first time, beating top-seeded Virginia Tech 79-72 in a national semifinal game. The Tigers will face Iowa for the crown on Sunday.

For the first time since 1985, the semifinals will feature none of the sport's most decorated programs. "This is a new history that we're venturing into," said South Carolina coach Dawn Staley.

Soon after Nikki Giovanni enrolled at Fisk University in 1960, she was asked to leave for expressing “attitudes unbecoming of a Fisk woman.” A decade...