It’s time for my final NCAA women’s basketball tournament bracket prediction ahead of Selection Sunday.
We saw a ton of shakeups in conference tournaments, so let’s break down where teams might fall:
SEED SPOKANE 1 Birmingham 2 SPOKANE 3 Birmingham 4 1 UCLA South Carolina Southern California Texas 16 High Point/Fairleigh Dickinson Tennessee Tech/Southern North Carolina A&T UNC Greensboro 8 Utah Creighton Cal Indiana 9 South Dakota State Illinois Mississippi State Georgia Tech 5 Maryland Kansas State Alabama Tennessee 12 Grand Canyon FGCU UNLV Ball State 4 Ole Miss Ohio State Baylor North Carolina 13 Montana State Fairfield Missouri State South Florida 6 Michigan Vanderbilt Iowa West Virginia 11 Princeton/Richmond Harvard/Iowa State Middle Tennessee Washington 3 Kentucky Notre Dame Oklahoma LSU 14 Green Bay Norfolk State Arkansas State Portland 7 Oklahoma State Louisville Michigan State Florida State 10 Oregon Nebraska George Mason Columbia 2 NC State TCU Duke UConn 15 UAlbany Southeastern Louisiana Hawaii Lehigh Last four in: Iowa State, Princeton, Harvard, Richmond
First four out: Virginia Tech, Colorado, James Madison, Minnesota
2025 MARCH MADNESS: Women’s NCAA tournament schedule, dates, times
Conferences with multiple teams in the bracket
CONFERENCE TOTAL TEAMS TEAMS Big Ten 12 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oregon, Southern California, UCLA, Washington SEC 10 Alabama, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vanderbilt ACC 8 California, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, NC State, North Carolina, Notre Dame Big 12 7 Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Utah, West Virginia Ivy 3 Columbia, Harvard, Princeton Atlantic 10 2 George Mason, Richmond Big East 2 Creighton, UConn CINDERELLAS: Lowest seeds to advance to each round in NCAA women’s basketball tournament history
Autumn Johnson’s automatic qualifiers
AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS Teams America East UAlbany American Athletic North Texas Atlantic 10 George Mason ACC Duke ASUN FGCU Big 12 TCU Big East UConn Big Sky Montana State Big South High Point Big Ten UCLA Big West Hawaii CAA North Carolina A&T Conference USA Middle Tennessee Horizon Green Bay Ivy Columbia MAAC Fairfield MAC Ball State MEAC Norfolk State Missouri Valley Missouri State Mountain West UNLV Northeast Fairleigh Dickinson Ohio Valley Tennessee Tech Patriot Lehigh SEC South Carolina Southern UNC Greensboro Southland Southeastern Louisiana SWAC Southern Summit League South Dakota State Sun Belt Arkansas State WCC Portland WAC Grand Canyon
Selection Sunday for 2025 March Madness is today, Sunday, March 16, when the 68-team fields for the men’s and women’s NCAA DI basketball tournaments will be announced.
Here’s everything you need to know for the 2025 WBIT event, including the schedule and selection information.
All you need to know for March Madness women’s tournament, which runs from selections on Sunday, March 16 through the championship on Sunday, April 6.
