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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 readingNC State comes from behind to beat foul-plagued Stanford
But second-half foul trouble — culminating with presumptive 2024 WNBA lottery pick Cameron Brink fouling out early in the fourth quarter — ultimately spelled doom as the Wolfpack stormed back for a 77-67 win. With Brink limited to seven second-half minutes, NC State outscored Stanford 50-30 after halftime to advance to their second Elite Eight […]
Continue readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: Sweet 16 tournament takeaways
Upsets were few and far between in the early rounds of the women’s NCAA tournament. The Sweet 16 delivered right away. No. 3 seed Oregon State upended second-seeded Notre Dame in Friday’s opening game of the regional semifinals. But while the Beavers advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2018 and for […]
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 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 readingWomen’s March Madness 2024: Second-round tournament updates
No. 7 seed Duke and 5-seeds Colorado and Baylor all won on their opponents’ home court Sunday to advance to the Sweet 16. So far, Monday’s second-round games — every contest is on ESPN Networks and the ESPN App — have not brought us more upsets. No. 2 seed Notre Dame and 3-seeds NC State […]
Continue readingStanford needs overtime to eliminate Iowa State in Round 2
STANFORD, Calif. — Kiki Iriafen hit midrange jumpers from every possible spot. She took the ball hard at the hoop and right at star Iowa State freshman Audi Crooks, then blocked Crooks’ path on the defensive end. Iriafen crashed the boards and converted all nine of her free throws — and Stanford needed every bit […]
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 readingWho are top duos in the women’s March Madness NCAA bracket?
Star power has defined the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season, and much of that focus has been on household names: Caitlin, JuJu, Paige, Angel. But let’s give it up for the duos that have helped shape the past five months of competition and will make their marks on the women’s NCAA tournament. ESPN considered many […]
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 […]
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