Two months into the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season, we’re starting to see an emergence of trends and identities for individual teams and for the sport as a whole, all of which will further crystalize during conference play and eventually March Madness.
Numbers don’t reveal the full story of what’s happening on the court, but they can provide revealing snapshots of areas of focus, improvement and concern, as well as a sense of a group’s strengths and weaknesses.
Caitlin Clark‘s usage rate, for example, tells us something about her importance to Iowa. So too does the movement and unpredictability in the Associated Press poll this season, as does (even if it’s not a perfect measure at this point in the year) a team’s standing in a metric like the NET, which the Division I women’s basketball committee utilizes to evaluate teams for the NCAA tournament.
Some of these statistics are bound to fluctuate as teams proceed deeper into conference play. But as of now, here are some…
