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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. […]
Continue readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: Predicting every Sweet 16 game
Sixteen teams have advanced to the regional semifinals in Albany and Portland. And the Sweet 16 is packed with potential. All four No. 1 seeds reached the round of 16. Defending champion LSU is back, as is No. 1 overall seed South Carolina, which is 34-0 and chasing a perfect season. Individual star power abounds […]
Continue readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: Reseeding the round of 32
The 2024 women’s NCAA tournament should have perhaps been played on a blackboard. There’s that much chalk all over it after the first round wrapped up. Higher-seeded teams went 31-1 in the first round. No bracket has played so true to form since the NCAA tournament expanded in 1994. For those who like to pick […]
Continue readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: First-round tournament updates
LSU won “ugly” (Kim Mulkey’s words). Middle Tennessee rocked the chalk. And Audi Crooks made sure the country knows this season’s highly lauded freshman class includes a representative from Iowa State. Crooks scored 40 points to help the No. 7 seed Cyclones rally from a 20-point deficit — the second-biggest comeback in women’s NCAA tournament […]
Continue readingLSU, UConn, UCLA headline preseason 2023-24 Top 25 rankings
The Tigers open in the top spot in ESPN’s 2023-24 preseason women’s college basketball rankings. LSU is expected to be even better this season and seeks to become the sport’s first repeat champion since UConn capped a four-peat in 2016. Coach Kim Mulkey added the top two transfers in Hailey Van Lith and Aneesah Morrow […]
Continue readingLSU, UConn, UCLA headline Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2023-24
More Teams. More Games. On “The Paul Finebaum Show,” Carolyn Peck explains why the talented Gamecocks and a gritty Tennessee will be stiff competition for the reigning national champs. (2:17) When LSU cut down the nets last April in Dallas, the Tigers became the lowest seed since Tennessee in 1997 to win as a No. […]
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