2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament - News, Updates

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2024 March Madness: Women's NCAA tournament schedule, dates, times

The schedule for March Madness 2024, which begins with selections for the women's tournament on Sunday, March 17.

www.ncaa.com

This season the NCAA Women's Basketball Final Four will be held in Cleveland, Ohio -- April 5 & 7.


NCAA Women's Bracketology

Women's Bracketology: Let the bid stealing begin

Princeton, FGCU and Green Bay are already worthy of at-large bids, if needed, in March. For now, that makes the Ivy, Horizon and ASUN two-bid leagues.

www.espn.com

Last Tournament Was a Huge Success for Viewers

March Madness Finals Ratings Set A Record High For Women, Record Low For Men

The two NCAA Basketball Championship games. The women's title game generated a record high audience, the men's title game produced a record low viewing.

www.forbes.com

 

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THEISEN, TIMMER SUFFER SEASON-ENDING INJURIES - South Dakota State University Athletics

BROOKINGS, S.D. - South Dakota State women's basketball student-athletes Kallie Theisen and Haleigh Timmer will miss the upcoming 2023-24 season with injuries suffered

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South Dakota State women's basketball student-athletes Kallie Theisen and Haleigh Timmer will miss the upcoming 2023-24 season with injuries suffered in the offseason.

Theisen, the reigning Summit League Sixth Woman of the Year, appeared in all 35 games for the Jackrabbits a season ago. She averaged a 6.4 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per contest, both team bests, to go with 6.1 points per game.

Timmer earned Second-Team All-Summit honors as a sophomore last season and was named the MVP of the Summit League Championship. She made 35 starts and was the Jacks' second-leading scorer a year ago with 12.1 points per game. Timmer and added 3.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists, on average.


And with that, South Dakota State will surely fall off the preseason Bracketology.



Best of wishes to the players for a successful recovery.

 

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There are scenarios where the Gophers make the NCAA tournament this season. You decide. Look at who is ahead of the Gophers. If or when do the Gophers overtake a team or two to bump them out -- and Minnesota in?

Here is the bracketology at the start of the Gophers season today:

Women's Bracketology: Let the bid stealing begin

Princeton, FGCU and Green Bay are already worthy of at-large bids, if needed, in March. For now, that makes the Ivy, Horizon and ASUN two-bid leagues.

www.espn.com

Seeds:
#1: Iowa, UCLA
#2: Indiana
#3: Ohio State, USC
#4. Maryland
#7: Illinois, Nebraska, Washington
#9: Michigan

Just missed: Michigan State, Oregon

 

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1. Iowa
2. Ohio State
3. Indiana
4. Maryland
5. Michigan
6. Illinois
7. Nebraska
8. Purdue

1-5 are in, 6-8 are on the bubble, the typical bottom are out.

 

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Defending champion LSU has early season issues, not exactly clear what's going on other than online spats, an upset loss, and oddly the team playing better with Reese not in the game despite her being productive in stats. There were no public game altercations. Some mystery here.

Mulkey on absent Reese: Hope to see her soon

LSU forward Angel Reese was not with the team Friday night as the Tigers faced Southeastern Louisiana on the road.

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LSU forward Angel Reese, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2023 women's NCAA tournament, was not with the team Friday night as the Tigers faced Southeastern Louisiana on the road.

"Angel was not in uniform. Angel is a part of this basketball team, and we hope to see her sooner than later," LSU coach Kim Mulkey said after her team's 73-50 win.

When a reporter started to ask a follow-up question, Mulkey cut in, "I'm not gonna answer any more, that's it, that's all y'all need to know."

 

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Defending champion LSU has early season issues, not exactly clear what's going on other than online spats, an upset loss, and oddly the team playing better with Reese not in the game despite her being productive in stats. There were no public game altercations. Some mystery here.

Mulkey on absent Reese: Hope to see her soon

LSU forward Angel Reese was not with the team Friday night as the Tigers faced Southeastern Louisiana on the road.

www.espn.com

LSU forward Angel Reese, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2023 women's NCAA tournament, was not with the team Friday night as the Tigers faced Southeastern Louisiana on the road.

"Angel was not in uniform. Angel is a part of this basketball team, and we hope to see her sooner than later," LSU coach Kim Mulkey said after her team's 73-50 win.

When a reporter started to ask a follow-up question, Mulkey cut in, "I'm not gonna answer any more, that's it, that's all y'all need to know."

Obviously, Angel is pouting. Unhappy about something. Coach has her heels dug in feeling strongly about her position/argument. (But also hoping Reese comes back.). Could be a lot of things but I'll bet Reese feels somehow disrespected as the social media face of LSU basketball.

 

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Defending champions LSU loaded up with star talent in the offseason including guards Aneesah Morrow and Hailey Van Lith.




Yet the star so far is freshman guard Mikaylah Williams. LSU has played five games.



.623 and .632 shooting percentages in 2's and 3's. 22 points per game average. 17 rebounds in the four games she played in.

LSU otherwise is sort of a mystery with the unexplained Angel Reese benching situation and social media spats.

Angel Reese posts picture from practice court, cryptic TikTok caption amid LSU turmoil

Angel Reese wasn’t on the court on Friday night, but appeared she might have been on Saturday afternoon.

nypost.com

 

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Cameron Brink saves Stanford women's basketball as Team USA phenom makes history​

Stanford and Team USA women's basketball prospect Cameron Brink helped her team avoid a home upset against unranked Duke on Sunday with a record-breaking performance that included a career high in points.

"Stanford women's basketball was at risk of an upset defeat until Cameron Brink took over in a dominant performance to help the Cardinal upend unranked Duke, 82-79, in overtime.

Brink extended her made free throw streak to 72 in a row, moving to second place all-time in NCAA women's basketball history. She's now only three makes behind record holder Michelle Gaislerova.

...It's been an incredible 2023 for the Cardinal star, who earned MVP with Team USA at this past summer's FIBA 3x3 World Cup as the Americans won a gold medal. She previously won gold medals at the 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup and 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup."

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Angel Reese with defending champion LSU issues a Tweet response to her mysterious benching after LSU's upset loss.

"Please don't believe everything you read."

Gossip now swirling her GPA is too low to play.

 

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Iowa's Caitlin Clark breaks Kelsey Plum record for 30-point games

Clark's 35-point game against Drake marked her 39th game with at least 30 points. She rebounded after missing 20 shots in the previous game.

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At this point in Caitlin Clark’s career, it’s not a matter of if she broke an NCAA record – it’s which record she broke.

The Iowa guard’s 35-point performance in the Hawkeyes’ 113-90 win against Drake on Sunday marked her 39th career game with at least 30 points. That number breaks Kelsey Plum’s record for the most in Division I women’s college hoops history. She also had 10 assists, 6 rebounds and 7 steals – an all-around performance from the reigning national player of the year.

With just one more 30-plus point game, Clark will match the overall NCAA record, set by Detroit’s Antoine Davis last season. With her pace so far (31.0 points per game through five games), she seems likely to break the record.

Perhaps more important to Clark, though, was the rebounding performance from the Hawkeyes, as well as teammate Kate Martin posting a career high in points after going scoreless in the previous game, a 68-58 loss to Kansas State.

“I thought everyone responded really well,” Clark said. “People want to beat you. You’re the Iowa Hawkeyes. You were in the Final Four last year. You have a target on your back, but this group just worries about what’s in our locker room. We knew Thursday wasn’t who we are.



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Huge showdown looming between #6 UConn and #2 UCLA on Friday evening, Black Friday.

Nov. 20 Women's AP Top 25: UCLA-UConn Top 10 Showdown Looms In A Big Week - FloHoops

The AP Top 25 Poll ahead of Thanksgiving offers up a tasty menu of matchups for the holiday stretch.

www.flohoops.com

All five starters for UCLA average double-digit scoring per game. UCLA has not faced a ranked team, I believe, so we will see if UCLA is a paper tiger.




Questions have been circulating about UConn that fans expect to be contender for #1. Are they top-4, people are asking? UConn looked shaky in 3 quarters against Minnesota.

 

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Azzi Fudd to miss remainder of season, UConn championship chances dip to 3rd behind South Carolina and LSU but ahead of Iowa, UCLA, Stanford and Colorado.

Azzi Fudd to Miss 2023-24 Season - University of Connecticut Athletics

UConn women's basketball junior guard Azzi Fudd will miss the remaining 2023-24 season after suffering a medial meniscal tear and an anterior cruciate ligament tear

uconnhuskies.com