After competing in most acclaimed, highest-rated women’s Final Four ever, last year’s March Madness semifinalists heeded the very evident calls for encores, reloading with a number of familiar names.
Three of these teams return their leading scorers from a year ago — Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, Virginia Tech’s Elizabeth Kitley and LSU’s Angel Reese also comprise half of the AP’s preseason All-America team — while South Carolina looks to offset notable losses to the WNBA with transfer addition Te-Hina Paopao and the expected development of Kamilla Cardoso.
With the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season now just a few days away, here’s a preview of each team for this upcoming year and a reason why they’ll be headed back to the Final Four in five months.
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LSU
Overview: Despite coming off a season where the Tigers earned their first-ever national title in an iconic shootout win over Iowa, there’s an argument that LSU’s offseason was, somehow, just as good.
America’s second most valuable player and 23-point-per-game scorer Angel Reese is back in the Bayou for at least one more year, leading a crop of returnees that includes SEC All-Freshman selections Flau’jae Johnson and Sa’Myah Smith along…
