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The world knows UConn is the favorite. But the Huskies' edge is less than most might think.
ESPN's brand-new Basketball Power Index (BPI) for women's college basketball gives Geno Auriemma's team a 37 percent chance to win this year's NCAA tournament, one year after the Huskies came up short in the Final Four. (You can read a little bit about the methodology behind our model here).
That would be overwhelmingly favorable odds for virtually any other team in any sport but for UConn? In women's basketball? It's ... just 37 percent?
That's more than double the next team's chance to win -- Notre Dame at 16 percent -- but it probably doesn't dull the shock value for the many who figure the Huskies hanging another banner this year is essentially a foregone conclusion.
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ESPN's brand-new Basketball Power Index (BPI) for women's college basketball gives Geno Auriemma's team a 37 percent chance to win this year's NCAA tournament, one year after the Huskies came up short in the Final Four. (You can read a little bit about the methodology behind our model here).
That would be overwhelmingly favorable odds for virtually any other team in any sport but for UConn? In women's basketball? It's ... just 37 percent?
That's more than double the next team's chance to win -- Notre Dame at 16 percent -- but it probably doesn't dull the shock value for the many who figure the Huskies hanging another banner this year is essentially a foregone conclusion.
[STORY]
