Rate Women’s Teams in 2025 Madness Final Four Teams

The upset was little and far in the NCAA tournament in 2025. The lower seed won through the higher seed only six times, but none was considered significant upset. But the fact that there was little surprise does not mean that we are not on treatment in Tampa in Florida.

Three Seeds No. 1 – Teased, South Carolina and Texas – A seed no. 2 Uconne Create a potentially exciting final four, especially without a clear favorite. It is a lot like the year 2018, when the last weekend of the season included all four seeds No. 1 and in the title game presented two semi -final games overtime and buzzer.

The results on Friday and Sunday will give us the final official evaluation, but here is how the final four teams accumulate into the national semifinals.

1. Uconn Huskies
Original seed: 2 (Spokane 4)
Tournament Results: 103-34 vs. No. 15 Arkansas State;; 91-57 vs. No. 10 State South Dakota;; 82-59 counters no. And Oklahop;; 78-64 vs. 1 USC

Other programs have had time sharing in the last four. Uconn own property. Huskies reached the last weekend of the season for the 16th time. Time in 17 years. Although the seed no. They were March’s best team.

Absence Juju watkins For the USC in their elite eight matches, he took a small couple from one of the most anticipated tournament games, but did not reduce the performance of Uconn, especially the performance of the first Sarah Strong. In the biggest game of her young career, Strong was the first offensive catalyst and ended up with 20 points and 16 rebounds. Even more importantly, its defense has closed the offensive possibility of USC No. 1 with Watkins out. With strong as its primary defender, Kiki Iriafen Shots 3-Z-15 from the field and scored only 10 points.

But Strong didn’t stop Paige Bueckerswho still makes the history of UConn in this NCAA tournament. She gained 31 points and made six assists against the Trojan horse and earned 105 points in the last three games. This is the most in any three games of any player in UConn history. Bueckers has now scored 30 points in three direct games for the second time in her career (she did it in her first season) and is also the only player of Huskies to do it. There are four in her fourth finals, with one another chance to win his first national championship.

Other next: UCLA (Friday, 21:00 et, ESPN)

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2. Ucla bruins
Original seed: No. 1 (Spokane 1)
Tournament Results: 84-46 vs. No. 16 Southern;; 84-67 vs. No. 8 Richmond;; 76-62 vs. No. 5 Ole Miss;; 72-65 vs. No. 3 LSU

Before Cori Close took over in 2011 as head coach Bruins, UCLA has not played in the region since 1999. At the time it reached 5. It is the most successful run that the program experienced in the era of NCAA. Although Canada led UCLA to elite eight as a senior in 2018 and Charisma Osborne helped maintain the level of success, the last four remained elusive.

CLOSE’S RECRURURITING CLASS OF 2022, which included Kiki rice, Londynn jones and Gabriela JaquezShe was still the best. Then when one player who missed – Lauren Betts – The following year Stanford went to Westwood, bigger things looked immediate. He arrived that day. Betts and Rice lead the way and Jaquez appeared huge at the greatest moments of the season, especially its 18 points, 4 3-reporters and 8 rebounds on Sunday, Bruins are in their first NCAA Final Four.

With Betts in a low contribution as the offensive team capabilities No. 1, it was placed on 207. Place in the country in percent of points from the 3-point range on Sunday against LSU 27.1%, this ratio jumped to 41.6%. And that must have. With Betts saddled problems from the first half, shooting Jaquez and Time curtains He released victory. Both juniors joined to make nine out of 13 attempts from Deep and gain 33 points. Three of the Gardiner trems came in the second quarter and helped UCLA Outscore LSU by 10 in the period, with Betts on the bench for 10 minutes.

In the end, LSU overtook UCLA and had four more goals in the game. These 3-proofers, and how Bruins survived in the second quarter, send Bruins to Tampa-A can be the key to win there.

Other next: UConn (Friday, 21:00 et, ESPN)

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3. South Carolina Gamecocks
Original seed: No. 1 (Birmingham 2)
Tournament Results: 108-48 vs. No. 16 Tennessee Tech;; 64-53 vs. No. 9 Indiana;; 71-67 vs. No. 4 Maryland;; 54-50 vs. No. 2 Duke

The defense attorney of NCAA Champion Gamecocks is four for the fifth year in the finals and it was certainly the most demanding. The average margin of victory in South Carolina in the last three games was 6.3 points per game. The latest GameCocks margin in the second round during the NCAA tournament in the last four years was 17.7 in 2021. This year Gamecocks were behind 36 minutes, 27 seconds.

54 points of South Carolina against Duke in Eight Eight was the second smallest ever scored at the NCAA tournament (49 against Miami in 2022 second round). Nine Gamecocks benches were the smallest for the team for the team that led the country in reservation for 41.5 points per game. And Gamecocks had only seven assists, which was at least what they had ever had in the NCAA tournament game.

This trip to Final Four was acquired with the execution of defense and late games, not stunning talent and physical dominance. Duke took a lot of what South Carolina likes to do explicitly limits the two best Gamecocks shooters Joyce Edwards and Mailasia Fulwileia. Gamecocks found an answer by getting in Chloe Kitts and Ferdianwho joined for 26 points. Even more importantly, they joined the two to get the last 10 points in South Carolina, including eight Kitts. The depth and the possibilities of the dawn of Staley re -delivered. Now Gamecocks are entering Final Four, which include all three teams that have defeated them this season.

Other next: Texas (Friday, 19:00 et, ESPN)

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4. Texas longhorns
Original seed: No. 1 (Birmingham 3)
Tournament Results: 105-61 vs. No. 16 William & Mary 105-61;; 65-48 vs. 8 Illinois;; 67-59 vs. No. 5 Tennessee;; 58-47 vs. 2 TCU

Vic Schaefer supervised defense as an assistant coach in Texas A&M when Aggies won the National Championship in 2011. As the head coach in Mississippi, Bulldogs took the national title games in 2017 and 2018, led by the top five defense. Now since 2003, Texas has taken four defense to the first final, which has not allowed any of its four opponents at the NCAA tournament to get more than 61 points. The TCU, which average 77.5 points per game this season scored 47 in their elite eight games. Schaefer preaches toughness, physicality and intensity. His longhorns released in all numbers this season.

Texas, who turned to a full -fledged print against a horned frog, forced 21 turns and held TCU at 26.7% shooting. It was the best defensive effort of the dominant tournament section of the NCAA with four games. The offense had its fighting on Monday, which did not allow Texas to postpone horned frogs until late Harmon Road producing early (13 points, 11 in the first half) and Madison Booker Late (18 points, 14 in the second half), the Longhorn had enough.

Now it is at the fourth meeting with New SeC competing with South Carolina and the crime was a problem against Gamecocks. Texas lost two of the three meetings with South Carolina and in two defeats he had his two games with the lowest score of the season.

Other next: South Carolina (Friday, 19:00 et, ESPN)