It is March Madness season, and the women’s 2024 Division I bracket was revealed on Sunday. South Carolina, Iowa, Texas and USC earned No. 1 seeds, while Notre Dame, UCLA, Stanford and Ohio State secured No. 2 seeds.
South Carolina’s first game will be against the No. 16 seed, either Sacred Heart or Presbyterian, at 2 p.m. ET (ESPN) Friday. South Carolina is undefeated for the second year in a row, which garnered them the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, sitting squarely atop the Albany Region 1.
Iowa will take on the No. 16 seed, either Holy Cross or UT Martin, on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET (ABC). It could be argued that Albany Region 2 is the most difficult in the tournament. The region boasts No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 LSU, No. 4 Kansas State and No. 6 Louisville. Additionally, an LSU-Iowa matchup would draw quite a crowd, considering the 2023 national championship matchup between the two teams.
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USC and JuJu Watkins are matched up against No. 16 A&M-Corpus Christi on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET (ESPN). Portland 3 Region also includes No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 UConn. This region could get spicy quickly with some big names like UConn’s Paige Bueckers back in action.
The final region is Portland 4 Region, with Texas in the No. 1 spot due to its Big 12 Conference tournament championship win. With that win, Stanford dropped to No. 2 seed but will come into the tourney with a vengeance. And everyone’s Cinderella this year is bound to be Columbia University. The women earned an at-large play-in bid against Vanderbilt. It is the first time in school history the women’s team will compete in the NCAA Tournament and the first time since 1968 that Columbia has a team in the tourney. The men’s team made their last appearance that year.
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