Tampa, Florida, here they come. A trio of No. 1 seeds and a 2-seed punched their tickets to the 2025 women’s Final Four.
Defending NCAA champion South Carolina will play Texas on Friday (7 p.m. ET), followed by UConn vs. UCLA (9 p.m. ET). Both games are on ESPN.
Which teams will advance to Sunday’s national championship game? Our experts weigh in, unanimously agreeing on a favorite for one of the semifinals but split on the other Final Four showdown.
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What to know about UConn
The No. 1 factor that helped UConn reach the Final Four: Paige Bueckers. After relatively poor performances in the Huskies’ three regular-season losses, including 9-of-22 shooting in the first matchup with USC in December, Bueckers had three consecutive games with 25-plus points this March Madness. That gave her eight in the NCAA tournament during her four Final Four runs — tied for the second most by any player in the past 25 years, per ESPN Research.
And it’s not just Bueckers’ scoring that makes her the nation’s best player. She added six assists Monday and an emphatic block of Trojans guard Talia von Oelhoffen. At least one more big game awaits for Bueckers in her last try for an elusive NCAA championship, but she couldn’t have done anything…
