The USC women’s basketball team scored a huge win at Oregon State on Sunday. The win likely makes USC a projected No. 2 seed in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, given everything we have seen over the past few days of play in the Pac-12 and elsewhere. If a team is a projected No. 2 seed for March Madness on February 18, that means as No. 1 seed is in play. Obviously, there’s a difference between “in play” and “very likely,” but the basic point is that this is certainly possible.
We’ll take you through some scenarios and give you a sense of what needs to happen in the next month before Selection Sunday, in order for USC to get a No. 1 seed and maximize its chances of reaching the 2024 NCAA Women’s Final Four.
Here we go: