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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. […]

Women’s Final Four predictions: Can Gamecocks win title?

CLEVELAND — This women’s Final Four has it all: an undefeated team (South Carolina), the national player of the year (Iowa’s Caitlin Clark), the player with the greatest comeback story this season (UConn’s Paige Bueckers) and the gritty underdogs who assume no one picked them to get here (NC State). During the regionals, the No. […]

Women’s Final Four 2024: Can NC State, UConn or Iowa give South Carolina its first loss?

For the second consecutive year, South Carolina enters the final weekend unbeaten and will try to be the 10th team to finish a championship season without a loss. UConn, the most storied program in women’s college basketball with 11 NCAA titles, advances to its 23rd Final Four. Caitlin Clark sits atop the all-time scoring list […]

NC 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 […]

Women’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 […]

Women’s NCAA basketball Power Rankings: No team’s hotter than NC State

The Wolfpack were picked to finish eighth in the ACC preseason poll, which now seems preposterous. But they finished 20-12 overall and 9-9 in the ACC last season, losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Then because of graduation and transfers, NC State lost four players who started at least 20 games. One […]

No. 10 N.C. State women beat No. 3 Colorado at Paradise Jam

Baldwin scored 16 points in the first half as the Wolfpack (7-0) pulled ahead by as many as 27 en route to their second signature win of the season. N.C. State beat then-No. 2 UConn 92-81 on Nov. 12 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Baldwin, whose previous career best was 19 points during her freshman year […]