Heading into the season, many held the belief that this could be a special season for women’s college basketball with the star power of Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, as well as the return of UConn’s Paige Bueckers.
Fast-forward to the Final Four, and there is little doubt this is as good as women’s college basketball has ever been, and that is in large part due to the unbelievable performances of the 2020 women’s recruiting class.
The 2020 recruiting class has not been talked about as a sport-altering group, but their play has put the growth of the sport into overdrive. The top of the class that year had, in some order, Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, Cameron Brink, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso, among the top grouping of players. All six players led their schools to seasons with 20 or more wins and top-three seeds, and for Bueckers, Clark and Cardoso, there remains an opportunity to add a NCAA Tournament title to their list of accolades.
If there was any uncertainty remaining about the Class of 2020’s star power, the game’s ratings answered that question. The rematch of last year’s title game between Iowa and LSU drew a whopping 12.3 million viewers and peaked at 16 million. Last year, the title game peaked at 12.6 million and drew an average of 9.9 million. It was by far…
