The quality of women’s college basketball gets better every year, and perhaps there is no better demonstration of that than the fact that there were six teams with legitimate arguments to be one of the four No. 1 seeds this season for the women’s NCAA Tournament.
South Carolina and Indiana were both obvious top seeds, and the committee rewarded them with the first and second overall seeds. But from there, things got dicey. You could justify a top-line seeding for Stanford, Virginia Tech, UConn or Iowa.
Both the Hokies and Cardinal had 20 wins against teams in the NET top 100. Stanford earned itself a share of the Pac-12 regular-season title while Virginia Tech ran away with the ACC tournament title. UConn and Iowa each had arguments in terms of recency and momentum. The Huskies, finally healthy, delivered a third-straight Big East tournament championship, and the Hawkeyes, behind a triple-double from Caitlin Clark, won their second consecutive Big Ten tournament title.
So, what was the committee to do? Well, cheers to ESPN for keeping the drama up and gluing folks to their couches as they awaited those final two brackets …
After Virginia Tech was revealed as the third No. 1 seed and UConn was determined to be the second seed in that bracket, that left just Iowa and Stanford…
