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The road to the NCAA women’s title game as told by social media

After a long month of March, the stage is set for the women’s NCAA basketball championship in Cleveland. In the semifinals, the No. 1 seed South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the No. 3 seed NC State Wolfpack in double-digit fashion, while Caitlin Clark and the No. 1 seed Iowa Hawkeyes beat the No. 3 seed UConn […]

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Women’s NCAA basketball’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2024-25

The landscape of women’s college basketball is going to look very different when November arrives and the 2024-25 season begins. Caitlin Clark will be gone. So will Angel Reese. The Pac-12 will be no more. USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington will be in the Big Ten. Oklahoma and Texas will be calling the SEC home. […]

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South Carolina opens as favorites to win 2025 NCAA title

The Gamecocks open as the favorites to take home the 2025 national championship, showing +250 odds to win it all on ESPN BET. Although South Carolina will lose 2024 most outstanding player Kamilla Cardoso to the WNBA draft, the team will return impact freshmen MiLaysia Fulwiley and Tessa Johnson and will add Joyce Edwards, the […]

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NC State, UConn highlight erratic men’s and women’s Final Four betting

NC State sends both its men’s and women’s teams to the national semifinals for the first time, becoming the 11th different school in history to do so and the first since South Carolina in 2017. The Wolfpack are also just the second school to send both teams as No. 3 seeds or lower, joining Syracuse […]

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Women’s Final Four predictions: Can Gamecocks win title?

CLEVELAND — This women’s Final Four has it all: an undefeated team (South Carolina), the national player of the year (Iowa’s Caitlin Clark), the player with the greatest comeback story this season (UConn’s Paige Bueckers) and the gritty underdogs who assume no one picked them to get here (NC State). During the regionals, the No. […]

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Paige Bueckers leads UConn to Final Four with win over USC

PORTLAND, Ore. — Back in the fall, UConn coach Geno Auriemma thought it would’ve been a “miracle” for his team to make a deep March run. A slew of injuries hampered the Huskies for a third straight season. They hardly looked like a Final Four team when they lost three games in the first month […]

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Women’s March Madness 2024: Reseeding tournament’s Final Four

The Paige Bueckers vs. JuJu Watkins showdown lived up to the hype. The LSU-Iowa rematch exceeded it. South Carolina hung on to stay undefeated. NC State pulled another upset. Now the Final Four is set with storylines aplenty. Caitlin Clark will be trying to add to her already-mighty legacy by trying to bring Iowa its […]

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Women’s March Madness 2024: Top 25 players in the Final Four

Which players might steal the show at the women’s Final Four? Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso head to the national semifinals in the spotlight. But in ESPN’s final rankings of the top 25 players for the 2023-24 season, we narrow the focus considerably: the best players for teams that […]

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Women’s Final Four 2024: Can NC State, UConn or Iowa give South Carolina its first loss?

For the second consecutive year, South Carolina enters the final weekend unbeaten and will try to be the 10th team to finish a championship season without a loss. UConn, the most storied program in women’s college basketball with 11 NCAA titles, advances to its 23rd Final Four. Caitlin Clark sits atop the all-time scoring list […]

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Women’s March Madness 2024: Reseeding tournament’s Elite Eight

The Iowa Hawkeyes and Texas Longhorns cruised. The South Carolina Gamecocks and USC Trojans had to sweat. The Elite Eight in the 2024 women’s NCAA tournament is set, and all the No. 1 seeds made it through. The same can’t be said for the No. 2 seeds, which have all been eliminated. Four No. 3 […]

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