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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: Elite Eight tournament takeaways
We have our Final Four. A blockbuster Monday gave us a rematch of the 2023 women’s NCAA national title game between LSU and Iowa — except this time Caitlin Clark & Co. came out ahead in Albany, New York. Meanwhile in Portland, Oregon, Paige Bueckers and the limited roster of UConn outlasted freshman JuJu Watkins […]
Continue readingIvy League rule helped USC create tourney team
PORTLAND, Ore. — The USC Trojans’ first trip to the Sweet 16 since 1994 was fueled in large part by an Ivy League rule that coach Lindsay Gottlieb joked Friday was “the best rule in the history of rules.” Alongside standout freshman JuJu Watkins, three of USC’s five starters — guard Kayla Padilla (Penn), guard/forward […]
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: Sweet 16 betting odds and more
Odds by ESPN BET as of publication time. (3) Oregon State Beavers (2) Notre Dame Fighting Irish -3.5 MVP Arena, Albany, N.Y., 2:30 p.m. ET Oregon State: 24-7, 12-6 in Pac-12 play Notre Dame: 26-6, 13-5 in ACC play Money line: Oregon State (+125) Notre Dame (-175) Total: 133.5 BPI Projection: Notre Dame by 6.7 […]
Continue readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: Reseeding tournament’s Sweet 16
Some of the chalk from the first two days of the women’s NCAA tournament has been erased. But not much. Two No. 5 seeds and a No. 7 broke through to the Sweet 16. And the top four seeds advanced to the regional semifinals in two regions — Albany 1 and Portland 4. The real […]
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 readingUSC takes Pac-12 title despite rare off night for JuJu Watkins
In Sunday’s Pac-12 tournament final at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Stanford threw the kitchen sink at Watkins defensively. Watkins had the worst shooting performance of her first season, going 2-for-15 from the field while also committing six turnovers. But instead of crumbling, USC proved what coach Lindsay Gottlieb has been saying all along: The Trojans […]
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 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 […]
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