The 2024 NCAA Women’s Tournament continues Thursday with the final two First Four games featuring No. 11 seeds Arizona and Auburn and No. 16 seeds Holy Cross and University of Tennessee at Martin. The entire 64-team field will be in action with 16 first-round games on Friday and another 16 on Saturday.
This year’s title contenders are well known. There’s undefeated No. 1 overall seed South Carolina, Iowa and the Caitlin Clark show, reigning national champions LSU and overlooked No. 1 seeds such as Texas and USC. But as everyone knows, March Madness never goes to plan.
As the action gets underway, here’s a look at two Cinderellas capable of making an extended tournament run.
No. 12 FGCU, Albany 1
Florida Gulf Coast is getting to the point where you could argue they don’t even qualify as a Cinderella anymore. This is the seventh consecutive NCAA Women’s Tournament appearance for the Eagles, who have won their first round game in each of the last two years. During this run they are 3-3 in the first round as a double-digit seed, with one defeat by two points and another by seven. This team hasn’t lost since Dec. 10, and 21 of their 22 consecutive wins have come by double digits.
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