Catch your breath yet? The final regular-season weekend for Power 5 conferences in women’s college basketball was full of broken records (via Caitlin Clark), extended win streaks (courtesy of South Carolina) and some eyebrow-raising results (see: the ACC and Pac-12).
Champ Week is here, and it’s officially the time of year when coaches tell their players to compartmentalize the regular season: It’s in the past. For better or for worse, whatever they did up until now has little bearing on how they’ll perform in the postseason, when the pressure is truly on and the lights are brightest.
Given how much of an unpredictable ride the past four months have been, with consistency often difficult for teams to come by, we could be in for a real roller coaster of a Champ Week. The first games tip off Tuesday in the Horizon League and Sun Belt Conference. The Power 5 tournaments kick off with early rounds Wednesday for the ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC, and Thursday for the Big 12.
ESPN’s Charlie Creme and Alexa Philippou break down what to watch for in the Power 5 conference tournaments and what’s at stake for March Madness, and then join Michael Voepel in predicting which teams will win all 32 tournament championships.
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