The 2025 NCAA women's basketball tournament runs from the First Four on March 19 through the championship on April 6. South Carolina is the early favorite, with a bid to successfully defend its ...

Lauren Betts scores 17 despite sitting the entire second quarter, Gabriela Jaquez adds 18 and Timea Gardiner finishes with 15 as the Bruins defeat LSU 72-65 to advance to the Final Four, where

LSU returns to the Elite Eight for a third consecutive season with the Tigers preparing to face off against the tournament top overall seed in U

No. 3-seed LSU will look to reach its third consecutive Elite Eight  on Friday at 6:30 p.m. CT when the Tigers take on No. 2-seed NC State in S

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All four of the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA women's tournament are favored in the Sweet 16. However, there is one massive difference between the USC Trojans and the others. USC is only a 1.5-point favorite against the Kansas State Wildcats without JuJu Watkins.

You don’t have to inform ESPN senior vice president of production Meg Aronowitz about the challenge of producing the women’s NCAA Tournament without Caitlin Clark the year after she had galvanized the property to NFL viewership heights. “You never want to be the guy that follows Nick Saban, right?” Aronowitz said, laughing.

Back in 2002, the then 3-seed Wildcats fell 82-62 to 7-seed Old Dominion. It was a reversal of 1982, when in the first NCAA Tournament, the 4-seed Wildcats beat the 1-seed Monarchs 76-67 to advance to the program’s one and only regional final.