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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 readingMarch 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 […]
Continue readingWomen’s Power Rankings: Do Hokies climb after stunning Wolfpack?
More Teams. More Games. Virginia Tech’s Elizabeth Kitley gets the ball down low and beats the buzzer as Virginia Tech hands NC State its first loss of the season. (0:25) And then there were three. We started 2024 with seven undefeated teams remaining in Division I women’s college basketball, but the number has dwindled to […]
Continue readingSix questions that will shape women’s Bracketology in March
No one outside of Columbia conceived of South Carolina — with a nearly entirely new rotation — returning to the top of the rankings just one week into the 2023-24 season. NC State wasn’t on any radar for a No. 1 seed, but the Wolfpack have earned their way to the top line with an […]
Continue readingWhich Power 5 teams are the ones to beat? We break down each race
Two pairs of undefeated, in-state (or even crosstown) rivals square off Saturday: No. 10 Baylor at No. 5 Texas and No. 6 USC at No. 2 UCLA. If you’re enjoying a slower pace after the holidays and before we hit the ground running in 2024, good news: You have a great excuse not to leave […]
Continue readingRanking the top 25 players in women’s college basketball
Clark starts as the unanimous No. 1 in ESPN’s 2023-24 top 25 players rankings, which is where she finished last season. But she opened 2022-23 as No. 2. Just as she contested South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston as national player of the year last season, Clark will face challengers this season. UConn’s Paige Bueckers, another former […]
Continue readingWomen’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 […]
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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