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Women’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 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 readingOklahoma’s Vann, Texas’ Booker share Big 12 POY award
The league announced its award winners Tuesday, when Booker became the first Big 12 freshman to be a player of the year. The 6-foot-1 forward is averaging 16.5 points and 4.9 assists a game overall, with those numbers upped to 20.2 points and 5.5 assists in 18 conference games. Vann, a 6-foot senior forward, ranks […]
Continue readingOklahoma tops Texas in final seconds to clinch Big 12 title
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma senior Lexy Keys missed two 3-pointers in the final minute. Fortunately for the Sooners, she kept shooting. She hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 4 seconds left to help No. 20 Oklahoma beat third-ranked Texas 71-70 on Wednesday night and clinch the outright Big 12 title. After a flurry of action, Oklahoma […]
Continue readingHottest women’s NCAA basketball teams ahead of March Madness
Championships aren’t won or lost in February, something we saw as recently as last year. LSU, for example, dropped two late contests in SEC play, routed by South Carolina on Super Bowl Sunday and then upset in the conference tournament semifinal by Tennessee. But the Tigers emerged as the best version of themselves in late […]
Continue readingWest Virginia ends Oklahoma’s nine-game winning streak
The Mountaineers won despite almost losing a seven-point lead in the final 30 seconds and missing two free throws with 6.5 seconds left. After Jordan Harrison made one of two free throws with 28.5 seconds remaining for a 68-61 lead — West Virginia’s biggest lead of the game — Nevaeh Tot quickly made a layup […]
Continue readingWomen’s NCAA basketball Power Rankings: Pac-12 surging
More Teams. More Games. Cameron Brink scores a career-high 29 points along with 11 rebounds and six blocks to lift Stanford to an 82-79 win in overtime. (1:18) Pac-12 women’s basketball players and coaches want to focus on the present this season. It’s something they can try to control, since the impending breakup of the […]
Continue readingHow the top transfers will impact women’s college basketball
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) The 2023-24 women’s college basketball season is six weeks away, and everyone from the transfer portal is officially enrolled in their new schools. So it’s […]
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