The finest time of the yr for school basketball followers is formally right here — and so are the brackets. Buckle up for March Madness and get your sharpie prepared on Selection Sunday. The ladies’s NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed Sunday night.
Reigning nationwide champion UConn is the No. 1 general seed within the event and is coming into the postseason undefeated (34-0) for the eleventh time in program historical past. Geno Auriemma’s program has received 12 NCAA Tournament championships, greater than any males’s or ladies’s basketball staff in school basketball historical past. Six of these titles got here in undefeated seasons. The Huskies have made it to 16 of the final 17 Final Fours, and they’re favored to chop down the nets in Phoenix this season (FanDuel lists them with -290 odds to win the NCAA Tournament).
UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are additionally No. 1 seeds. Arizona State, Virginia, Richmond and Nebraska have been the final 4 groups to earn at-large bids, and they’ll all play within the First Four on Wednesday and Thursday.
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UCLA made its first Final Four final yr, and the Bruins will likely be coming into this Big Dance even stronger this yr. They’ve received 25 straight video games coming into the NCAA Tournament, with the most recent victory coming within the type of a 51-point blowout over Iowa within the Big Ten Tournament title recreation final week.
The ladies’s NCAA Tournament will get began with the First Four on Wednesday, March 18. The first spherical will likely be held on Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21 with the second spherical scheduled for Sunday, March 22 and Monday, March 23. The first two rounds will likely be hosted by the highest 16 groups within the subject. The Sweet 16 and Elite Eight are set for March 27-30 in Sacramento and Fort Worth, and the Final Four is scheduled from April 3-5 in Phoenix.
2026 Women’s NCAA Tournament bracket
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No. 1 seeds are likely to do effectively, however some upsets needs to be anticipated. There have solely been 4 situations wherein all of the No. 1 seed have reached the Final Four: 1989, 2012, 2015 and 2018. All 4 of the present No. 1 seeds made the Final Four final yr, so will probably be attention-grabbing to see if they will meet once more in Phoenix.
No. 1 seeds have received the championship 23 instances within the ladies’s NCAA Tournament, whereas No. 2 and No. 3 seeds have a mixed eight titles. No decrease seeds have ever lifted the trophy, and, in actual fact, seeds lower than No. 6 have a losing record in the overall tournament.
That being stated, that is March, and you may’t depend anyone out. In 1998, No. 16 seed Harvard upset No. 1 seed Stanford with a 71-67 victory within the first spherical.
