Girls’s 2025 NCAA Match bracket revealed

WASHINGTON — UCLA is the highest general seed within the ladies’s NCAA Match. The Bruins have been joined by South Carolina, Southern California and Texas because the No. 1 seeds that the NCAA revealed Sunday night time.

It is the primary time at school historical past that the Bruins are the highest crew within the match. That they had two losses on the season, each of which got here to the Trojans.

See the complete regional bracket checklist under. 

Daybreak Staley felt her crew ought to get the No. 1 general seed, however not like final yr when the Gamecocks completed off an undefeated season with a nationwide title, this crew has three losses heading into March Insanity.

Staley’s crew is seeking to be the primary crew to repeat as champion since UConn gained 4 straight from 2013-16. The Huskies, who’re a two-seed, need to finish that drought with star Paige Bueckers. They’ll must exit west in the event that they attain the Candy 16 and a possible rematch with JuJu Watkins and the Trojans could possibly be ready within the Elite Eight.

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The trail for all gained’t be straightforward: This yr there’s extra parity within the sport. This NCAA Match will likely be solely the second previously 19 years to don’t have any groups coming into March Insanity with zero or one loss. The opposite time was in 2022.

The Trojans and Bruins, newcomers within the Huge Ten this season, will attempt to win the primary nationwide championship for the convention since 1999, when Purdue gained the lone one. A file 12 groups from the Huge Ten are within the discipline. The SEC has 10 and the ACC eight. The Huge 12 has seven.

The Ivy League acquired three bids to the match for the primary time in convention historical past. Final season, Columbia earned the second at-large bid in league historical past. The Lions are again once more in addition to Princeton. Each are 11 seeds and will likely be competing in play-in video games. Harvard, which gained the convention match, is a ten seed.

Duke, TCU and N.C. State joined the Huskies on the 2-seed line. Notre Dame boasts wins over Texas and USC however slumped the previous few weeks of the common season and fell to a three-seed.

William & Mary is one in every of six groups set to make its first look within the ladies’s NCAA Match. The others are Arkansas State, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Mason, Grand Canyon and UC San Diego. 4 groups are headed to the lads’s match for the primary time: Excessive Level, Omaha, SIU Edwardsville and UC San Diego.

The Tribe (15-18) are the primary sub-.500 crew since Incarnate Phrase in 2022 to make the match.

For the primary time in NCAA historical past, there will likely be a monetary incentive for girls’s groups. They are going to lastly paid for taking part in video games within the NCAA Match identical to the lads have for years.

So-called efficiency items, which signify income, will likely be given to ladies’s groups for every win they get. A crew that reaches the Remaining 4 might convey its convention roughly $1.26 million over the subsequent three years in monetary efficiency rewards.

This comes a yr after the ladies’s championship sport that noticed South Carolina beat Caitlin Clark and Iowa do higher TV rankings then the lads’s title sport.

The highest 16 seeds within the 68-team discipline will host first- and second-round video games, with the regional rounds being performed at two impartial websites for the third straight yr. Spokane, Washington, will host half of the Candy 16 and Birmingham, Alabama, will host the opposite eight groups.

The Remaining 4 will likely be performed in Tampa, Florida, on April 4, and the championship sport is 2 days later.

One crew that did not make the sphere was Stanford, which ended the Cardinal’s 36-year streak of enjoying within the NCAA Match. It is the primary time since 1987 that Stanford will not play within the NCAAs. Whereas that streak is over, Tennessee continued its NCAA Match run of showing yearly within the discipline because the first NCAA Match in 1982. The Woman Vols are a five-seed.

• No. 1 USC vs. No. 16 UNC Greensboro
• No. 8 California vs. No. 9 Mississippi State
• No. 5 Kansas State vs. No. 12 Fairfield
• No. 4 Kentucky vs. No. 13 Liberty
• No. 6 Iowa vs. No. 11 Murray State
• No. 3 Oklahoma vs. No. 14 Florida Gulf Coast
• No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 10 South Dakota State
• No. 2 UConn vs. No. 15 Arkansas State

• No. 1 Texas vs. No. 16 Excessive Level/William & Mary
• No. 8 Illinois vs. No. 9 Creighton
• No. 5 Tennessee vs. No. 12 South Florida
• No. 4 Ohio State vs. No. 13 Montana State
• No. 6 Michigan vs. No. 11 Iowa State/Princeton
• No. 3 Notre Dame vs. No. 14 Stephen F. Austin
• No. 7 Louisville vs. No. 10 Nebraska
• No. 2 TCU vs. No. 15 Fairleigh Dickinson

• No. 1 South Carolina vs. No. 16 Tennessee Tech
• No. 8 Utah vs. No. 9 Indiana
• No. 5 Alabama vs. No. 12 Inexperienced Bay
• No. 4 Maryland vs. No. 13 Norfolk State
• No. 6 West Virginia vs. No. 11 Columbia/Washington
• No. 3 North Carolina vs. No. 14 Oregon State
• No. 7 Vanderbilt vs. No. 10 Oregon
• No. 2 Duke vs. No. 15 Lehigh

• No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 16 UC San Diego/Southern
• No. 8 Richmond vs. No. 9 Georgia Tech
• No. 5 Mississippi vs. No. 12 Ball State
• No. 4 Baylor vs. No. 13 Grand Canyon
• No. 6 Florida State vs. No. 11 George Mason
• No. 3 LSU vs. No. 14 San Diego State
• No. 7 Michigan State vs. No. 10 Harvard
• No. 2 N.C. State vs. No. 15 Vermont