Women's Bracketology: Brackets in all shapes and sizes
Conference tourney losses Thursday left the Irish's streak of consecutive NCAA tournament appearances in jeopardy and Mississippi St. on the bubble.
Conference tourney losses Thursday left the Irish's streak of consecutive NCAA tournament appearances in jeopardy and Mississippi St. on the bubble.
No freshman has ever been named the national women's player of the year, but the UConn star has made a compelling case. Who else is in the running?
Thirty-one automatic berths are up for grabs during Championship Week. Which teams will win their conference tournaments and NCAA auto bid?
Sunday's upsets and an ever-changing Bracketology seem to indicate the NCAA tournament will be the most wide open in recent memory.
UConn is the overall top seed, followed by Stanford, Texas A&M and South Carolina in the second reveal of the projected top 16 seeds in the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
Aaliyah Wilson scored 17 points and N'dea Jones added 16 to lead No. 3 Texas A&M to a 65-57 win over fifth-ranked South Carolina on Sunday to give the Aggies their first regular-season Southeastern Conference title.
From Louisville's Dana Evans in the ACC to Gonzaga's Jenn Wirth in the WCC, we break down which players have stood out in each conference.
The bubble looks different in 2021, with sub-.500 teams eligible for at-large berths and most mid-majors lacking opportunities to build their résumés.
No. 2 South Carolina's 31-game SEC winning streak, the second-longest streak in conference history, ended Thursday with a 75-67 loss to No. 21 Tennessee.
In a season of COVID-19 pauses and cancellations, anything seems possible. So just how far could each team in Monday's top-16 reveal go in 2021?
The SEC has the most teams in the top 16 seeds, with five in the first early reveal of the NCAA tournament, unveiled on ESPN on Monday night.
From why Baylor and NC State were seeded lower than expected to how COVID-19 pauses impacted seeds, here are the biggest takeaways from the reveal.
The UConn Huskies have returned to a familiar place in the national rankings, climbing to No. 1 in the latest Associated Press women's basketball poll released on Monday.
The NCAA selection committee will reveal its current top-16 teams at halftime of Monday's Stanford-Oregon game (ESPN/ESPN App, 9 p.m. ET).
TEAM | CONF | GB | OVR |
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Texas A&M | 13-1 | - | 22-1 |
South Carolina | 14-2 | - | 19-4 |
Tennessee | 9-4 | 3.5 | 15-6 |
Georgia | 10-5 | 3.5 | 18-5 |
Kentucky | 9-6 | 4.5 | 17-7 |
Arkansas | 9-6 | 4.5 | 19-8 |
Alabama | 8-8 | 6 | 16-8 |
LSU | 6-8 | 7 | 9-12 |
Mississippi State | 5-7 | 7 | 10-9 |
Missouri | 5-9 | 8 | 9-11 |
Ole Miss | 4-10 | 9 | 11-10 |
Florida | 3-11 | 10 | 11-13 |
Vanderbilt | 0-3 | 7.5 | 4-4 |
Auburn | 0-15 | 13.5 | 5-19 |
AP | COACHES |
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7 | 7 |
NAME | POS | STATUS | GRADE |
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Saniya Rivers | SG | Signed | 98 |
Sania Feagin | PF | Signed | 98 |
Raven Johnson | PG | Signed | 98 |
Aubryanna Hall | SG | Signed | 96 |