A go-to guide on every team in the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
After five months of regular-season and conference tournament action, we have finally reached the best stretch of the year. It’s March Madness, and it’s setting up to be yet another eventful NCAA Tournament. At 32-0, South Carolina seems like the easy pick to make it to the championship game, but we thought that last year, too. Fellow No. 1 seeds — Iowa, , and Texas — will look to make deep runs to challenge the Gamecocks.
? Its last Elite Eight appearance was in 2018. Outside of Osborne, Camryn Brown is the only other senior on the roster. If you have no concerns about the Bruins’ youth factor, you shouldn’t have concerns about them at all. Outlook: would have closed its season on an eight-game winning streak. Still, it’s one of the deepers teams in the country, and one of the youngest, which is scary for future opponents. Senior Charisma Osborne is the Bruins’ motor, but the sophomore trio of Kiki Rice, Londynn Jones and Lauren Betts will determine how far
, but few are deeper and more in unison. Betts’ dominant interior play opens up the shots for Jones and Osborne from deep and for Rice to drive to the lane as we’ve become accustomed to. ? Its last Elite Eight appearance was in 2018. Outside of Osborne, Camryn Brown is the only other senior on the roster. If you have no concerns about the Bruins’ youth factor, you shouldn’t have concerns about them at all. Outlook:
– so it shouldn’t be an easy opponent, per se, but a Sweet 16 appearance is probably the ceiling this year. And that’s OK as it builds to 2024-2025. Profile Strengths: The biggest plus is that Raegan Beers is back, and basketball fans everywhere get to rejoice. The Beavers lost three of the four games Beers missed, so her return as Oregon State’s leading scorer and rebounder is much-needed.
and NC State all handled UConn fairly easily. Though it’s playing differently now — a team that has learned to play without Fudd and Griffin — it’s still a tall task. UConn should get to the Sweet 16 fairly easily, but a trip to the Elite Eight seems out of reach.
defeated Utah by 30, while Oregon State and Washington won by 25 and 15, respectively. There were some key wins , and Utah also lost to South Carolina by only 9 points. Outlook: The tough schedule obviously will continue in the tournament, but the Utes are a sneaky team who could make the Sweet 16 as a lower seed. Pili has continued to evolve her game, and the All-Pac-12 star is going to shine. Track them as a sleeper team to make it to the second weekend.
. Extremely slow-paced team. Record: 25-4 Coach: Carla Berube Player to watch: Ellie Mitchell BetMGM odds Title odds +500 Albany 2 Ivy 9 9 Michigan Portland 3 20-13 Profile Strengths: Laila Phelia, a junior and first-team All-Big Ten selection, built off last season’s individual success, leading the Wolverines with 16.3 points per game and a 25.2 usage rate.
given the lack of true competition it faced this year. Round 2 is the ceiling. Profile Strengths: Regardless of the context, 26-2 is one hell of a season.
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