Selection Sunday has arrived. It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for.
By the end of the night, we will have the 68-team bracket for the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament, and the projections listed below will become just a memento of what I got wrong.
But jokes aside, here is a brief preview of the Selection Show and what I’m most interested in seeing.
South Carolina and Indiana are locks on the No. 1 line, in that order. Following them, it seems like four teams (Stanford, Iowa, Virginia Tech and UConn) are contenders for the last two No. 1 seeds.
I believe Stanford has the strongest overall resume, but they’re also the only team in the group that failed to win their conference tournament, falling in the Pac-12 semifinals to UCLA. Could that send the Cardinal down to a No. 2?
Will the committee favor Iowa’s highest-quality wins (a combined three over Indiana and Maryland) or Virginia Tech’s higher number of NET top 25 wins? And how about UConn, who is ranked No. 2 in the NET? We saw them as low as No. 7 overall in the last top 16 reveal but the Huskies got Azzi Fudd for the Big East Tournament and looked like a top contender once again.
I’m interested in seeing if Texas climbs to a…
