Is 19th best in the country, sez ESPN
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46920873/womens-college-basketball-recruiting-ranking-schools-class-2026
Analyst Andraya Carter on ESPN just now, talking about how, besides UCLA, others in the B1G will fare in the NCAAs: "I like this Michigan team, I like Minnesota. There are a few teams I have an eye on in the Big Ten."
More locker room fodder.
Included: most of the usual suspects plus a headscratcher or two (I guess McGuff's DUI and accompanying viral video don't matter?). Not included: Plitzuweit...
OSU at a 4 seed, and it would be quite easy to flip those, based on results in the next few games, when OSU has a tougher schedule than the Gophers do (USC, MI, MSU).
To be fair, pretty much everyone agreed that the Gophers were not really a 7 seed. The seed was based on all of the losses the Gophers racked up while Whalen was hurt and uncertainty about whether she'd even be able to return at full strength -- which, we found out in that UCLA game, she really did.
That's my thing. I've attended for 25 years, never a subscriber but always going to 10 or more games a season. Those scrubs games may help NET but they suck for FANS.
Princeton already shouldn't be ranked, with no good wins and a bad loss to Columbia. If they lose again to Columbia,which it looks like they're about to, they'll drop out