Another week, another entertaining — and telling — stretch of women’s college basketball.
The SEC/ACC Challenge was a must-watch event Wednesday and Thursday. The SEC came out on top 10-6, the event highlighted by wins for Oklahoma over Louisville, LSU over Stanford, North Carolina over Kentucky, Notre Dame over Texas, NC State over Ole Miss and South Carolina over Duke.
Over the weekend, Tennessee earned its first ranked win in the Kim Caldwell era with a 78-68 victory over Iowa in the Champions Classic doubleheader. The event’s second game was less competitive, with UConn trashing Louisville by 33. Similarly lopsided was South Carolina’s 85-52 rout over TCU on Sunday.
Elsewhere, league play began in two of the Power 4 conferences.
With so many matchups between Top 25 teams, and others just outside of the poll pushing to enter the rankings, the picture is beginning to crystallize of which teams and players are contenders and which might be pretenders. ESPN sorts through the host of overreactions that emerged from the past week’s consequential games.
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Sarah Strong’s 22 points lift UConn to 7-0 start
UConn’s Sarah Strong scores 22 points to pace the Huskies to an 88-52 victory over Holy Cross.
UConn will run the table this season
Expectations were high for the Huskies…
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