The home of the last three national champions, the SEC, best conference in women’s college basketball, looks to be even better in 2024-25.
Texas and Oklahoma arrive from the Big 12, prepared to challenge South Carolina’s supremacy. With new head coaches, Kentucky and Tennessee also will be rising threats. And even after three SEC players were selected in the first round of the WNBA Draft, talent abounds, with transfers and recruits ready to make their mark.
Here’s a look at what’s next for the SEC:
The arrival of Red River rivals
Although there are plenty of reasons to protest the football-centric realignment that has shaken college sports, the changes should at least be fun for fans of SEC women’s basketball.
Texas and Oklahoma significantly will increase the already high quality of the SEC. The Longhorns were the Big 12 Tournament champions and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, advancing all the way to the Elite Eight. The Sooners captured the Big 12 regular season title for the second season in a row before advancing to the second round of the NCAA Tournament as a No. 5 seed.
Texas tracks to be even better next year, with Madison Booker, who already won the Cheryl Miller Award as the best small forward in the nation as a freshman, buoyed by a year of…
