After a somewhat calm start to the 2024-25 season, chaos has begun to infect women’s college basketball, with more tumbles from top teams following last week’s upsets:
Feast Week’s peaks and valleys
Among a buffet of Thanksgiving week women’s basketball that included back-and-forth battles, close calls and blowouts, a few teams’ performances stood out above others, for both the right and wrong reasons.
TCU has earned top billing. Unranked to begin the season, they’re sure to shoot up the rankings after knocking off Notre Dame on Friday, with grad guard Hailey Van Lith’s 19 second-half points helping the Horned Frogs overcome a 14-point third-quarter deficit to take down the Irish, 76-68, at the Cayman Islands Classic. The Horned Frogs also avoided a letdown game after leftovers, taking care of South Florida, 87-46, on Saturday. Van Lith again led the way with 21 points and eight assists, while grad center Sedona Prince, named the tournament’s MVP, followed up her 20-20 performance against Notre Dame with a double-double of 17 points and 13 rebounds.
In contrast, it was a bleak Feast Week for Notre Dame. The Irish had the opportunity to show that their slip up against TCU was a mere blip by responding to their second-half stumble against the Horned Frogs…
