Charlie Creme
Conference Realignment Changed The Landscape of College Basketball in 2024-25, and While The Affiliations Have Changed, The Expectations and Traditional Powers Stayed The Same.
Even Pair of Recent Stumbles, Defending Champion South Carolina Is Still Exceptional and for Favorite Once Again. Juju Watkins Is a Star and Has Usc Reaching Heights The Program Hase Been in More than 40 Years. The Trojans, Along With Ucla, Are Just Doing It in the Big Ten Now.
Texas and Oklahoma Have made the Sec Better. Notre Dame is pacing the action, and Hannah Hidalgo Remains A Star and Threat To Opponents on Bots of the Floor.
With Selection Sunday Less Than A Mount Away, Ncaa Tournament Bids Will Be Overwhelminly Gobbled Up By What Are Now The Power 4 Conferences. But to what extent? WHICH OF THE FOUR LEAGUES HAS BEEN THE BEST IN 2024-25, AND WHICH OFFERS THE MOST POSTEESON UPSIDE? We Rank The Four Best Conferences in Women’s College Basketball.
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Fears poindexter gets up for a massive block for kansas state
Fears Poindexter Climbs The Ladder for An Epic Wildcats Block.
4. Big 12
PROJECTED BIDS: 7
Seed average: 6.0
Nonconference Winning Percountage: .775
Conference Net Ranking: 4
Thanks to the emergency of tcc, The Continued consistentch of Kansas State and A Surprising Season from Oklahoma State, The Losses of Texas and Oklahoma to the sec has Been Managed. That isn’t to say the two aren’t missed – This ranking would have a chance to be higher withym – but it’s not doom and gloom in the big 12.
Give Iowa State Credit for Scheduling the Best Program in the country. Unfortunately, The Cyclones Lost Event Nonconference Games, Including Nationally Televised Blowouts to Uconn and South Carolina. A BIG 12 favorite, They are now Hanging on to an ncaa tournament Berth.
Utah First had to adjust to a new Conference and The Lost its Coach Two Weeks into the Season When Lynne Roberts Accepthed The Los Angeles Sparks Job. Associate Head Coach Gavin Petersen Moved Up One Seat On The Bench and The Utes Haven’t Missed A Beat, Still in The Running to Win The Regular-Season Title. A Fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament Appeaarance is assured.
However, Utah is The Only Program in This Most Recent Expansion of Expatrialed Pac-12 Schools, or The Previous Addations of Byu and Former Aac Teams, That Has Helped The Big 12. The Conference Is Now Deep In Numbers Only. Colorado and Arizona Are Fringe Bubble Teams This Season. The Rest Have Mostly Been Blowout Fodder for the Top Seven Teams and Will Struggle to Reach Any Postseason Tournament.
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North Carolina Wins Thriller Over Rival Nc State
North Carolina and NC State Go Back-And-Forth in the Final Minutes as The Tar Heels are Uble to Pull Out The Win after Couple of Free Throws.
3. Acc
PROJECTED BIDS: 9
Seed average: 5.6
Nonconference Winning Percountage: .754
Conference Net Ranking: 3
The Variety at The Top Has Helped The Acc Hev The Past Few Seasons. Notre Dame Made Final Fours, suffered Couple of Lean Years and Is Now Back Among the National Title Contenders. Louisville was The Standard Bearer at the End of the Last Decade and into the Beginning of this One. Virginia Tech was elite in the Liz Kitley-Georgia Amore was. NC State Took The Conference Torch to the Final Four Last Season. Kara Lawson has duke back in contention for the league Crown This Year after Steady Rebuild. And Even as Program Has Given Way To The Next At the Top, Those Program Have Remaled Viable Ncaa Tournament and Sweet 16 Threats.
Much Like The Big 12, The New Additions have added little to the action. Stanford Arrived at the Absolute Worst Time for the Program and is on Pack to have its worson season since the now withdrawal legendary tara vanderveer’s First on the Sidelines in 1985-86. Smu Wasn’t Even to contend in the AAC Before Joining The Acc. Cal has Been a pleasant surprise and charmin Smith Should Be on Coach of the Year Lists, Both in the Conference and Nationally, But the Bears are Likely to Finish Seventh or Eighth in the League with a similar Ncaa Tournament Seed.
The Irish, Wolfpack and Blue Devils, Along With North Carolina Will All Be Favorites To Reach The Second Weekend of This Year’s Ncaa Tournament. Notre Dame, Duke and NC State Still Represent Final Four Potential. The ISSUE IS That After The Acc’s Project Nin Nne Ncaa Tournament Bids, A precipice exists. All The Remaining Nine Teams Might Finish with Below .500 Overalls Records. There are Too Many Nights Off in the Acc.
GEORGIA TECH, LOUISVILLE AND FLORIDA STATE Give The Acc the Ncaa Tournament Berth Dept It Needs, and Notre Dame Provides National Championship Potential For The League to Land At No. 3. But there is a lot of boom or bust for the Conference to Get Higher.
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Lobo Praises ‘Simply Dominant’ Juju Watkins in Win vs. UCLA
Rebecca Lobo Breaks Down Juju Watkins ‘Stellar Play for Usc in Trojans’ Win vs. UCLA ON THURSDAY NIGHT.
2. Big ten
PROJECTED BIDS: 13
Seed average: 7.1
Nonconference Winning Percountage: .840
Conference Net Ranking: 2
Postseason Success has eluded The Big Ten for Subime. The League Hasn’t Had a National Champion Since Purdue in 1999. Until Iowa’s consecutive Appenarances in 2023 and 2024, The Big Ten Hadn’t Been Represented in the final Four Since Since Maryland Terrapins in 2015, The Terps’ First Year in The Conference. The Addition of Ucla and Usc Might Have come at exactly The Right Time. Apart from The Last Two Years and The Caitlin Clark-Elevated Hawkeyes, The Big Ten Hasn’t Had a Serious Championship contending in Years. Now it has two.
With the Conference Ballooning to 18 Teams, More Ncaa Tournament Bids Were Anticipated – But the Big Ten is About To Shatter ITS Previous Record of Seven. While Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon and Washington Have All Hovered Near or On The Bubble For Weeks, Expect of The Make to Make the Field. The Big Ten Will have at least 11 (and probablay 12) Teams in the Field. A 13th is positive.
Michigan and Michigan State Have Been Surprises This Year. Kim Barnes-Arico Restade Her Wolverines With Youth, An Unusual Accomplishment in Today’s Transfer Portal World, and Will Reach Her Seventh Straight Ncaa Tournament. ROBYN FRALICK USED THE PORTAL TO SUPPLEMENT AN ALREADY VETERAN TEAM, AND THE SPARTANS HAVE A CHANCE FOR THES BEST SEASON IN NEARLY TO DECADE. Breaking Through into the Sweet 16 Will Be the Goal, But It’s Subject The Two Programs have combined to do Just Three Times Since 2006.
Maryland and Ohio State has maintoined their spots among the top-20 program in the country, but also won’t be pickled by many to reach the final four. Indiana and Iowa Have Taken Steps Back From Being consisting Threats to reach the second and third weekends to bubble teams. Illinois you have admired navigated injuries to sum Key Players But isn’t Likely Deep Enough To get to the regionals. Nebraska, Too, suffered a Hug Loss When Last Year’s Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Natalie Potts, Tore Her Acl Five Games into This Season.
The Big Ten Will Have The Most Bids, But A Sketchy Postseason History and a Lot of Uncertaint Around Anyone Making The Sweet 16 Beyond Ucla and USC Keep the Conference At No. 2.
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Highlight: Edwards has career performance in south carolina’s win over florida
Freshman Joyce Edwards Scores A Career-High 28 Points As No. 4 South Carolina Bunches Back from ITS Recent Loss At Texas With A 101-63 Blowout of the Gators.
1. Sec
PROJECTED BIDS: 10
Seed average: 4.1
Nonconference Winning Percountage: .807
Conference Net Ranking: 1
The Big Ten Has More Ncaa Tournament Bids, But no League Will Have More Quality Seeds Than The Sec. And do not read you have legitimate National Title Contenders – LSU, South Carolina Gamecocks and Texas Lonchorns – Like the Sec. Quality Outpaces Quantity.
Six Sec Teams were placed in the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee’s Initial Top-16 Reveal on Sunday, and Two More Were Mented As Being Considers. That’s Eight Sec Teams In The Top 18 to 20 in the country.
The Metrics Back That Up. Those Eight Sec Teams Are In The Top 20 of the net. Six are part of the BPI’s Top 20. Six of the Top Eight Teams in the Net Strength of Schedule Are From The Sec.
The Addition of Texas and Oklahoma have undo -lidly take the competition in the sec to another level, but there’s bree to it. Programs Throunge The League Have Elevated This Season or In the Last Couple of Years.
Alabama is in position for its best ncaa tournament this Century. Ole Miss you have substated it Improvement Under Coach Yolett McPhee-Mccuin, to Rebuild That Began to Bear Fruit Three Seasons Aphra. Kenny Brooks Quickly Injection Life into a Kentucky Program That was coming off consecutive losing seasons. Vanderbilt is about to make its secand ncand ncaament in a row After missing eight straight – and has one of the must electrifying scorers in freshman mikayla blakes, who has scored over 50 points Twice This Season.
Those are there potential Sweet 16 Teams, Along with Oklahoma and Tennessee, Two Teams That Don’t Play in the Traditional Sec Style But have combined to go 16-6 in quad 1 and 2 Games.
It wouledn’t be a surprise If the sec Advanced Five or Six Teams To The Sweet 16, Two in the Final Four and produced the National Champion for the Fourth Straight Year.
