Four of the Power 5 conference tournaments are complete, and the Big East wraps up Monday night. So it’s a good time to reassess the women’s Bracketology landscape with less than a week to go before Selection Sunday (8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App).
The ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC tournaments in some ways were a microcosm of the season: unexpected results, parity and close games everywhere, except where South Carolina is concerned. The Gamecocks, who have now gone a full calendar year without a loss, thoroughly dominated the SEC tournament just like they have the rest of the season, and might have separated themselves even more from the rest of the country.
In the other three leagues, the tournament’s No. 1 seeds all failed to reach the championship game. Those results mixed up the bracket considerably. The No. 1 seeds heading into the weekend — Indiana, Stanford and Utah — all lost early in their tournaments. But so did projected 2-seeds Maryland — which made a brief appearance as a No. 1 — and LSU. That allowed Virginia Tech, which made an impressive run through the ACC tournament, to grab a No. 1 seed on Sunday night. Iowa‘s dismantling of Ohio State in the Big Ten…
