As Choice Sunday attracts close to, anticipation continues to develop as groups await to see the place they are going to be seeded on March 15, starting at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.
Whereas some choices can be pretty simple, there can be loads of powerful choices to be made by the choice committee to place the whole bracket collectively.
With that in thoughts, listed below are 5 main ladies’s college basketball storylines heading into Choice Sunday:
UConn trying to shut out one other undefeated season
Not solely did the Huskies (34-0, 20-0 Massive East) put collectively an ideal common season for the 11th time in program history, however they backed that up with their 13th consecutive conference tournament title after they downed Villanova, 90-51, to win the Massive East Match championship on Monday.
If the Huskies win their subsequent six video games, they are going to repeat as nationwide champions and convert their unblemished document right into a thirteenth nationwide title — all of which have come underneath the management of head coach Geno Auriemma.
Who will get the highest total seed?
Pretty much as good as UConn has been this season, the UCLA Bruins (31-1, 18-0 Massive Ten) have put collectively a resume that’s actually worthy of consideration for the No. 1 total seed. Whereas the Huskies are an ideal 9-0 in opposition to Quad 1 groups, the Bruins are 19-1 against such competition with their lone defeat coming to a Texas Longhorns staff that took down top-seed South Carolina to win the SEC Match title.
UConn would seem like the apparent alternative because the nation’s top-ranked staff, however there’s a case to be made for UCLA as nicely given the Massive Ten gauntlet that it needed to overcome and the dearth of competitors that the Huskies confronted in a weak Massive East convention.
What is going to the committee do with Tennessee?
The Girl Vols (16-13, 8-8 SEC) have seven consecutive losses, together with a one-and-done efficiency within the SEC Match. That inconsistency has put them in uncomfortable territory as they await their future on Sunday.
Nonetheless, there has by no means been an NCAA Match with out Tennessee and there’s no cause to imagine that may change. ESPN’s Charlie Creme tasks the Girl Vols to be an eight-seed in his newest bracketology. Contemplating the depth of the SEC and that the ability convention tournaments are already wrapped up, Tennessee ought to be within the subject as soon as once more.
Convention event outcomes already enjoying a serious function
Not like the boys’s NCAA Match, the top-16 groups within the ladies’s bracket host first and second-round video games. The NCAA revealed which teams will be hosting those games on Saturday, with North Carolina and Massive 12 Match-champion West Virginia becoming a member of the fold.
Whereas the precise seed for these 16 groups is not going to be revealed till Sunday night time, the addition of the Tar Heels and Mountaineers implies that two groups — Maryland and Michigan State — fell out after second-round losses within the Massive Ten Match.
Which bubble groups will hear their names known as?
Virginia, Arizona State, Nebraska and Richmond are projected to be the “Final 4 In” as of Saturday, whereas BYU, Texas A&M, Utah and Mississippi State are within the “First 4 Out.” Nebraska (NET rating of 28) has the most effective NET rating of the bunch, however with just one Quad 1 win, will probably be attention-grabbing to see which of these groups the committee elects to place within the subject contemplating the issues that every of them have.
