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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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Source: UNC star Deja Kelly enters transfer portal

North Carolina women’s basketball star Deja Kelly has entered her name into the transfer portal, a source told ESPN Tuesday. It is on the table for her to return to UNC, the source said, but she will also explore other schools. Kelly, a 5-foot-8 senior guard from Duncanville, Texas, has a fifth and final season […]

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Women’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 […]

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March Madness 2024 bracket: NCAA tournament women’s teams

The 2024 women’s NCAA tournament bracket is here. The games are right around the corner. The anticipation and excitement around women’s college basketball has never been higher. Let the dancing begin. ESPN is here to get you situated and prepared on all things March Madness as competition gets underway this week, starting with the First […]

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32 men’s basketball players who could become breakout stars of the postseason

And then the NCAA tournament began. By the time Kansas State got to its Elite Eight matchup against Florida Atlantic, Nowell — who would score 30 points in a Wildcats loss — had become a must-see player. That’s how quickly everything can change in the college basketball postseason. While this regular season failed to produce […]

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Caitlin Clark, four freshmen among top 25 players in country

Conference play across January and February has been college basketball’s great equalizer, showing what players and teams are made of before the stage gets even bigger and brighter in March. And so with Championship Week right around the corner, ESPN is back with its newest edition of the top 25 players in women’s college basketball. […]

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Women’s Power Rankings: UConn returns to top five, Iowa falls

More Teams. More Games. Paige Bueckers goes off for 32 points as UConn wins its 11th game in a row with an 83-59 victory over Seton Hall. (1:46) South Carolina stays firmly planted at No. 1, UCLA jumps to No. 2 and the sports world is celebrating the greatness and longevity of Stanford coach Tara […]

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Women’s NCAA basketball Top 25: Which teams can win a title?

Yet the Tigers aren’t considered the sure thing the Gamecocks were 12 months ago. The race to the NCAA trophy appears more wide open this season, with as many as eight contenders. The list includes UConn, which saw its streak of 14 consecutive Finals Fours come to an end in March but seems poised for […]

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What’s the best conference in women’s college basketball?

“The Pac-12 is something really special. We’re heartbroken it’s done. I’m still in a state of denial about it,” said Tara VanDerveer, who is 17 wins from surpassing Mike Krzyzewski (1,202) for the most victories in Division I college basketball history. “My whole life has been coaching in the Pac-12.” VanDerveer helped elevate the Pac-12 […]

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LSU, 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 […]

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