Change is the only constant in college sports these days, and following a recent wave of conference realignment, it will be a defining feature of the 2024-25 women’s college basketball season.
The Pac-12 — which had emerged as arguably the best women’s basketball league in the nation — is a shell of what it once was, with six former members now scattered across the ACC and Big Ten and four having moved to the Big 12. The SEC also looks different, as Texas and Oklahoma have joined the conference.
ESPN is here to help make sense of it all. Here’s a quick rundown of the four new non-geographic superconferences, including their preseason projections for the NCAA tournament heading into the 2024-25 women’s college basketball season.
We’ve also ranked each conference based on how many NCAA bids each league is projected to earn in the 2025 NCAA tournament, with average seed serving as the tiebreaker. All seeds reflect ESPN’s latest Women’s Bracketology.
1. SEC
Total teams: 16
New teams: 2 (Oklahoma, Texas)
Members: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Projected bids: 11
No. 1 seeds: 1 (South Carolina)
Top 16 seeds: 4 (South Carolina, LSU,…
