Yeah, you know watch to what on Monday. The basketball gods have blessed us with what has the chance to become one of the most memorable days in the history of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.
It begins with the game all wanted to see when the brackets were revealed: a rematch of last year’s national championship game. No. 1-seed Iowa and No. 3-seed LSU meet with a return berth to the Final Four on the line (7 p.m. ET, ESPN). Then, two of the game’s brightest stars—UConn’s Paige Bueckers and USC’s JuJu Watkins—will seek to carry their teams to the Final Four when the No. 3-seed Huskies take on the No. 1-seed Trojans (9 p.m. ET, ESPN).
While there are tons of reasons to watch, here are a few things to watch more closely on Monday night:
Sophomore stars will be key to championship rematch
In last year’s national championship game, an outlier shooting performance from an unheralded hero propelled LSU past Iowa and to the title, with now-graduated guard Jasmine Carson coming off the bench to go 5-for-6 from 3 and score a team-high 22 points. As a team, the Lady Tigers shot almost 65 percent from behind the arc, when, for the regular season, the team shot under 35 percent on low volume. It resulted in a 102-85 rout, and the program’s first national…
