March Madness: what to know about the last four teams
THE NCAA women’s basketball tournament It has come to the last four teams, since the best players remained will fight for the possibility of being the first champion of the post-Caitlin Clark era.
The game of the women’s championship last year made history obtaining more spectators than the game of the men’s title for the first time ever. Now, Without ClarkClass of Championship Contenders this year, has the high task of trying to keep the spotlight on the women’s game.
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Uconn will face the UCLA and Texas will face South Carolina in the round.
Here is a breakage of players who try to fight for that reflector in the last two rounds:
Uconn and Paige Bueckers
The Uconn Paige Bueckers Guard, n. 5, crosses the student section at Gamel Pavilion after a match against the state of South Dakota in the second round of the NCAA College basketball tournament on Monday 24 March 2025 in Storrs, Connecticut. (Photo ap/jessica hill)
Uconn Superstar Paige Bueckers He probably took Clark’s place as the biggest basketball star in women’s college this year.
Bueckers has a chance To do what Clark never did: win a national championship. The native of the 23 -year -old from Minnesota will surely rely on his faith in God while trying to achieve this goal.
Bueckers was one of the most straightforward players of this sport when it comes to crediting his Christian faith, after having referred it countless times while he was recovering from an ACL torn in August 2022. He thanked God as he brought Uconn to the Final Four last year, and this year, he saw that trend spread to other players in sport.
“Yes, I think people are more external in their faith and more at ease in talking about it”, buckers He told Fox News Digital In a press conference on February 19 when he is asked if he sees Christianity embrace becoming more common in women’s basketball and in sport as a whole.
“I feel like you see it more, the more people become and more at ease everyone come”, “he added.” But yes, I certainly think he is growing in terms of explosion. ”
If the faith of Bueckers is rewarded in this year’s March Madness Run and leads Uconn to the championship, he will leave his mark in the most decorated story in female university basketball.
Uconn already has 11 national championships dating back to 1995 and is considered the most important dominant dynasty in sport. So the pressure is on Bueckers to maintain this standard, at least once, before graduating. Uconn last won the title in 2016 and the current drought of the program championship has been the longest since he won his first title 30 years ago.
2025 probability of madness of March female: title for the remaining teams
Subsequently, Bueckers will try to challenge Clark in professionals, since it is expected to choose the number 1 in the next Wnba draft this year.
Texas and Madison Booker
Madison Booker, n. 35 of the Texas Longhorns, reacts during the second half against the TCU’s frogs of the eight eight rounds of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament at the BJCC Arena on March 31, 2025 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
The Longhorns are led by Star Madison Booker, who already has experience in high risk competition, in particular while representing his country.
The native of Mississippi has already won three gold medals in the youth tournaments of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Booker helped the United States win a gold medal at the Under 16 Fiba 2021 women’s championship in Mexico, where he scored 6.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per game on average.
The following year, at the Under 17 Women’s World Cup of the 2022 FIBA in Hungary, on average 5.6 points, four rebounds and 2.3 assists per game on a broken medal.
The following year, at the Women’s World Cup under 19 in 2023 in Spain, he scored on average 7.2 points and five rebounds per game for his third gold for the United States
This year, Booker was considered one of the best players in women’s basketball, winning the player of the year of the year and earning all-American honors of the first team AP. He did everything at the age of 19, since he will not even turn 20 until the tournament is over.
Unlike Uconn and Bueckers, Booker and Texas are looking for a much more rare company in their history.
Texas won the national championship only once, in 1986. The program was a contender for the madness of March perennial throughout its history and even arrived at the eight eight in three of the previous four years, but they lost every time.
Now, the Longhorns have returned to the Final Four for the first time since 2003. Booker has been trying to channel his success of the gold medal that represents his country at the national championship that represents the great state of Texas.
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Charge of southern Carolina
The then president Joe Biden walks with Dawn Staley, coach of the women’s basketball team of the University of Carolina of the South, for an event in the East Room of the White House of Washington, Tuesday 10 September 2024, to welcome the women’s basketball team of the University of Carolina of the South and celebrate the women’s basketball team 2023-2024. (Photo AP/Susan Walsh)
South Carolina coach Dawn Stley is trying to remind all those who are responsible in the basketball of the women’s college.
Stley is looking for repeated titles after defeating Clark in the match of the national championship last season, his fourth title in general. The team is in the Final Four for the fifth consecutive year and has also shown that he can overcome the lack of a single superstar player such as Bueckers and Booker, but he can also overcome distractions.
Last season, Stley brought her team to the title despite arousing controversy when she spoke to support the trans athletes in women’s basketball.
During a press conference, Dan Zaksheske of Outkick He asked Stley his thoughts He did not hide his thoughts on the burning problem.
“Yes, yes. So, now the people of Barnstmermer will inhale my temporal sequence and I will be a distraction in one of the biggest days of our game, and I’m fine with that. I really am,” he said. “I’m from the opinion of, if you are a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and want to practice sports or vice versa, you should be able to play. This is my opinion.”
However, like Bueckers, Stley also had no problems sharing his faith, thanking God after winning the title of last year.
“We serve an incredible God,” said Stley after the game.
“This is the most unlikely group to do it. And sometimes, I mean, God is fun so. It’s fun. He tears your heart and makes you believe. It makes you believe the unimaginable.”
This year’s team will lean on a group that does not have a superstar for the family, but a deep range of grass stars, including Joyce Edwards, Chloe Kitts and Milaysia Fullwiley.
Juggernaut Ucla quiet
UCLA Bruins players celebrate their 72-65 victory over the LSU Lady Tigers to advance the eight rounds of the NCAA women’s Basketball Tournament in 2025 held at the Spokane Arena on 30th March 2025 in Spokane, Washington, during the elite of the eight rounds of the eight round tournament. (Photo of Tyler Schank/NCAA via Getty Images)
The UCLA has finished the regular season as a team n. 1 classified throughout the country after a 34-2 dominant campaign.
For a school that was historically defined by the success of male basketball, the women’s program had no more opportunities to claim her place in the sun than this year. The UCLA has never won a women’s national championship, and this will be its first final appearance of all time.
The head of the coach Cori Close has built a Juggernaut of women’s basketball in silence and patiently since he took the program in 2011.
The UCLA hadn’t played in a regional since 1999 when they hired it. In its fifth season, the UCLA has returned to the Sweet 16 and since then the Bruins have lost only two regional ones. It is the most successful race that the program experienced in the NCAA era.
Now, the fruits of his 2022 recruitment class are realizing, with the stars Kiki Rice, Londynn Jones and Gabriela Jaquez who ran to history.
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