And then there were three.
We started 2024 with seven undefeated teams remaining in Division I women’s college basketball, but the number has dwindled to three after a revealing, thrilling week of conference play.
South Carolina, UCLA and Baylor all sit at 14-0 on the season, each in its own way surprisingly dominant to start the 2023-24 campaign. In fact, not one of them was picked in the preseason to win its respective conference.
Four previously unbeaten teams — NC State, West Virginia, TCU and Oregon State — suffered their first defeats this week. But no game or result was as noteworthy as the Wolfpack’s last-second loss to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Elizabeth Kitley‘s game-winning shot with 0.9 seconds left, made possible by some fabulous playcalling from Kenny Brooks, inbounding from Cayla King and screening from Georgia Amoore.
NC State — which was without starting center River Baldwin (ankle) — was in control most of the game, and…
