The Stanford Cardinal and Virginia Tech Hokies earned the highly contested final two No. 1 seeds in the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball tournament, the bracket for which was revealed exclusively on ESPN as part of Selection Sunday.
On the No. 1 seed line, the Pac-12 regular-season co-champion Cardinal and the ACC tournament champion Hokies join the Big Ten regular-season champion Indiana Hoosiers as well as the top overall seed — the undefeated, defending national champion South Carolina Gamecocks.
Both Virginia Tech and Indiana earned 1-seeds for the first time in school history. No. 1 seeds have won the championship at 10 straight NCAA tournaments.
With reigning national player of the year Aliyah Boston leading the way, South Carolina — which hasn’t lost a game in over a calendar year — is six wins from becoming the fourth program to repeat as national champions (joining UConn, Tennessee and Southern California) as well as the fifth to complete an undefeated season (alongside UConn six times,…
