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Surprised there’s no thread on this. Just announced:


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2024 NCAA women's basketball top 16 reveal dates, schedule and how to watch

The NCAA DI Women's Basketball Committee will reveal two top 16 rankings this season ahead of Selection Sunday. Here's everything you need to know.
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1. SC
2. Stanford
3. Ohio St
4. Colorado
5. Iowa
6. NCS
7. UCLA
8. TX
9. USC
10. VT
11. Oregon St
12. UConn
13. KSU
14. LSU
15. IU
16. Louisville
 
It will be interesting to see whether UCONN basketball has any competitive edge left at both the coaching and player level; will the Huskies reach to realize the promise of its highly touted recruits (well-above Big East threshold) or resign itself to top-20 satisfaction excused by injury and roster attrition.
 
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Well at least if that is our regional, we won’t have the pressure of having to continue a Final Four streak or even an Elite Eight streak. I think we can beat UCLA and then maybe if some SC players are a little off and some of our non-Bueckers/edwards players have a huge game we could beat them too. Obviously not the best road for us but Paige and Aaliyah are two of the best players in the country so we always have a chance anytime those two are on the floor.
 
jaydee602 said:
That UCONN seeding makes sense. They might go as high as #10 with a Big East Championship, but they will still be a #3 seed.
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You want them to be either 12, 9 or 8. Otherwise, they go to Portland.
 
Boreifs said:
Sorry, incorrect. 10 does keep them in Albany. 3-14; 6-10. The other is 1-16; 4-12.
Portland is 2-15; 7-11 and 4-13; 5-11.

In other words, they need to be 10, 12, 14 or 16; 1,3,4 and 6 all seem out of reach.
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My math is really failing me tonight.

1-16, 2-15, 3-14, 4-13, 5-12, 6-11, 7-10, 8-9 is classic, but I’m not sure that formula was followed.
 
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I don't understand. The three other teams are teams UConn has already played. Isn't that a consideration?
 
HuskyNan said:
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UCLA would be a tough 2 seed draw if UCONN stays on the 3 line (which this should if they win out).

If I'm UCONN though, I don't hate facing SC in Albany. If the road to a title goes through South Carolina (which looks to be the case), I think the chances of UCONN pulling an upset are much higher playing in front of a home crowd in Albany than on a neutral court in Cleveland. South Carolina has looked very beatable in road games this year.
 
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HuskyFan1125 said:
Of the 3 seeds Oregon State has a brutal end to PAC12 play.
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Oregon State's Pac-12 schedule as a whole is brutal, with 10 of their 18 games against Stanford, UCLA, USC, Colorado, and Utah. And yet they're 9-3 and went 4-0 against the Mountain schools.

Their toughest road games are behind them. They get the LA schools and Stanford at home and I like their chances with how they're playing.
 
jaydee602 said:
UCONN is probably stuck on the #3 line. But a move up in the rankings could bounce them out of South Carolina's region.
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Actually I don't think that will matter much. At #12 overall, in theory our chances of being sent away from the #1 bracket should be better than if we were #9 or #10.

A bigger determining factor was the fact that 5 Pac-12 teams were in the top 11. The top 4 of those had to be placed in separate regions, which in this instance forced USC to be the #3 seed in the "other" (non-SC) Albany bracket.
 
Please correct me if I am wrong.

There will be 2 final four teams coming out of Albany. One each from the 2 pods
The teams in each pod do NOT play each other in Albany...only play
teams within their pod. 4 teams in each pod.

I would assume the NCAA would try to balance the overall strength of the 2 pods.
If South Carolina is considered the best team in Albany they might well play
the 8th best team in the sweet sixteen game...and then the winner of the 4/5
game in the final 8 game. Neither of those teams would be UConn. UConn...if considered
the 3rd best.. would play the 6th best in the sweet sixteen and if advancing the winner of 2 and 7.

Very good teams...but doable.

Lots of assumptions here but the main one is just a fact.. The winner of the 'non-South Carolina"
pod will go to the final 4 without facing Carolina.
 
Blakeon18 said:
Please correct me if I am wrong.

There will be 2 final four teams coming out of Albany. One each from the 2 pods
The teams in each pod do NOT play each other in Albany...only play
teams within their pod. 4 teams in each pod.

I would assume the NCAA would try to balance the overall strength of the 2 pods.
If South Carolina is considered the best team in Albany they might well play
the 8th best team in the sweet sixteen game...and then the winner of the 4/5
game in the final 8 game. Neither of those teams would be UConn. UConn...if considered
the 3rd best.. would play the 6th best in the sweet sixteen and if advancing the winner of 2 and 7.

Very good teams...but doable.

Lots of assumptions here but the main one is just a fact.. The winner of the 'non-South Carolina"
pod will go to the final 4 without facing Carolina.
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Theoretically, SC should play the 16th and either the 8th or 9th seed, but that is thrown off by the need to keep teams from the same conference from playing each other. Also, the committee will do its best to keep UConn in Albany. The 12 seed should play the 5th and then the 4th, which would put them in Portland. That is why the math just doesn’t work. Unless I’m mistaken, ( which could be totally true) Albany is hosting the pods of the first and third seeds.
 
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One thing I do not know [amongst many] is whether the 2 Albany final four teams
meet each other in the NCAA semis or whether they split them up and have each play one of the 2 final four teams from
the other regional.
 
A few teams ranked higher than UConn in the reveal will lose a game or two in regular season or conference tournament paving the way for UConn to move up a couple of spots.

There are 5 Pac-10 teams in the 16 (3 B10, 3 ACC, 2 B12, 2 SEC) and there will be some games between them.

Other than South Carolina, only UConn is likely to win all of their remaining games. Given UConn's relatively weak remaining schedule, they won't get much credit for doing so, and they may at best end up being a 3-seed in a different region.

Being in Albany will help some but not necessarily mean an automatic home-win (like against NC State a couple of years ago). We had difficulties against solid teams with quick guards like ND even at home this year.
 
Blakeon18 said:
Please correct me if I am wrong.

There will be 2 final four teams coming out of Albany. One each from the 2 pods
The teams in each pod do NOT play each other in Albany...only play
teams within their pod. 4 teams in each pod.

I would assume the NCAA would try to balance the overall strength of the 2 pods.
If South Carolina is considered the best team in Albany they might well play
the 8th best team in the sweet sixteen game...and then the winner of the 4/5
game in the final 8 game. Neither of those teams would be UConn. UConn...if considered
the 3rd best.. would play the 6th best in the sweet sixteen and if advancing the winner of 2 and 7.

Very good teams...but doable.

Lots of assumptions here but the main one is just a fact.. The winner of the 'non-South Carolina"
pod will go to the final 4 without facing Carolina.
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No
In S. Carolina
1st round S. Carolina would play #16
2nd round S. Carolina would play #8

In Storrs
1st round UCONN plays #14
2nd round UCONN plays #6

In Albany
Sweet 16 S. Carolina would play #4 Louisville / UCONN plays #2 UCLA
Elite 8 S. Carolina would play #2 UCLA / #3 UCONN
 
BRS24 said:
Last big grid of the season, as I'll crop it down to preseason, beginning, mid, and then the last few rows as we go along.
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Great chart.

I'm sure you thought about this and have a reason for not doing it, but could you somehow highlight UConn so it stands out and makes it easy to see their trend? May be use bold font and/or slightly larger font size?

Thanks for doing these charts, I can stare at them all day and be happy :)
 
I wish better but whatver th region, it will probably end up by the sweet 16, it is time for Nika to pull up assists numbers
 
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