Women's Bracketology: 2025 NCAA tournament
Final exams and the holiday season have slowed things down a bit. But it's the calm before the storm. When 2025 arrives, conference play will kick into gear, and Bracketology also will heat up, moving to twice-weekly updates in early January. Automatic bids now total 31 as we continue to count down to Selection Sunday on March 16.
Bracket Watch
Tennessee's new brand of basketball is anything but quiet, but the attention the Lady Vols had been getting this season hadn't risen above a whisper. That is, until a nationally televised, fourth-quarter comeback win over Iowa then an NCAA Division I-record 30 3-pointers in last week's 80-point victory over North Carolina Central. The Lady Vols are the country's top-scoring team and have embraced new coach Kim Caldwell's high-energy, high-shot-volume style of play that also creates turnovers. Tennessee remains one of nine unbeaten teams left in Division I. With so many unknowns about the roster and how Caldwell's jump from Marshall would translate, the Lady Vols were a double-digit seed in the preseason. Now, they have played their way to a top-four seed and would host games in Knoxville if the season ended today.
On the Bubble
Last Four Byes
Last Four In
First Four Out
Next Four Out
68-Team Bracket
Region 1 Spokane
Los Angeles
- 16
Lamar - aq - 8 Baylor
- 9
Alabama
Knoxville
Los Angeles
- 3 USC
Durham
Region 4 Spokane
Austin
East Lansing
- 5 NC State
- 12 Buffalo - aq
Manhattan
- 6 Iowa
- 14 Albany - aq
Storrs
- 7 Illinois
- 10 Harvard - aq
- 2 UConn
- 15 Army - aq
Region 2 Birmingham
Columbia
- 9 Utah
Morgantown
- 5 Michigan
Norman
- 3 Oklahoma
College Park
Region 3 Birmingham
South Bend
- 9 Richmond
Fort Worth
- 4 TCU
Columbus
- 6 Kentucky
Baton Rouge
- 2 LSU
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