Women's March Madness Final Four: What to know

The NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament is down to its last 4 teams, arsenic the champion players near volition conflict for the accidental to beryllium the archetypal champion of the post-Caitlin Clark era. 

Last year's women's title crippled made past by garnering much viewers than the men's rubric crippled for the archetypal clip ever. Now, without Clark, this year's people of title contenders has the gangly task of trying to support the spotlight connected the women's game. 

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UConn volition look UCLA, and Texas volition look South Carolina successful the round. 

Here is simply a breakdown of the players looking to conflict for that spotlight successful the last 2 rounds: 

UConn and Paige Bueckers

UConn defender Paige Bueckers, #5, runs done the pupil conception astatine Gampel Pavilion aft a crippled against South Dakota State successful the 2nd circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney connected Monday, March 24, 2025 successful Storrs, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

UConn superstar Paige Bueckers has arguably taken Clark's spot arsenic the biggest prima successful women's assemblage hoops this year. 

Bueckers has a accidental to bash what Clark ne'er did – triumph a nationalist championship. The 23-year-old Minnesota autochthonal volition surely thin connected her religion successful God arsenic she looks to execute that goal. 

Bueckers has been 1 of the astir outspoken players successful the athletics erstwhile it comes to crediting her Christian faith, having referenced it countless times portion recovering from a torn ACL successful August 2022. She thanked God portion starring UConn to the Final Four past year, and this year, she saw that inclination dispersed to different players successful the sport.

"Yeah, I deliberation radical are much outward successful their religion and much comfy talking astir it," Bueckers told Fox News Digital astatine a property league connected Feb. 19 erstwhile asked if she sees embracing Christianity becoming much communal successful women's hoops and sports arsenic a whole. 

"I consciousness similar the much you spot it the much populized it becomes, and the much comfy everybody comes with it," she added. "But yeah, I decidedly deliberation it's increasing successful presumption of being outspoken astir it." 

If Bueckers' religion is rewarded successful this year's March Madness run, and she leads UConn to the championship, she volition marque her people connected the astir decorated past successful women's assemblage basketball.

UConn already has 11 nationalist championships dating backmost to 1995, and is considered the astir salient ascendant dynasty successful the sport. So the unit is connected Bueckers to support that standard, astatine slightest once, earlier she graduates. UConn past won the rubric successful 2016, and the program's existent title drought is its longest since winning its archetypal rubric 30 years ago.

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After that, Bueckers volition look to situation Clark successful the pros, arsenic she is projected to beryllium the No. 1 wide prime successful this year's upcoming WNBA Draft. 

Texas and Madison Booker

Madison Booker, #35 of the Texas Longhorns, reacts during the 2nd fractional against the TCU Horned Frogs successful the Elite Eight circular of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament astatine Legacy Arena astatine the BJCC connected March 31, 2025 successful Birmingham, Alabama. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

The Longhorns are led by prima Madison Booker, who already has acquisition successful high-stakes competition, specifically portion representing her country.

The Mississippi autochthonal has already won 3 golden medals successful International Basketball Federation (FIBA) younker tournaments. Booker helped the United States triumph a golden medal astatine the 2021 FIBA Under-16 Women's Americas Championship successful Mexico, wherever she averaged 6.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per game. 

The precise adjacent year, astatine the 2022 FIBA Under-17 Women's World Cup successful Hungary, she averaged 5.6 points, 4 rebounds and 2.3 assists per crippled en way to a golden medal.

The pursuing year, astatine the 2023 FIBA Under-19 Women's World Cup successful Spain, she averaged 7.2 points and 5 rebounds per crippled for her 3rd golden for the U.S.

This year, Booker was considered 1 of the champion players successful women's basketball, winning SEC subordinate of the twelvemonth and earning AP First-Team All-American honors. She did it each astatine the property of 19, arsenic she volition not adjacent crook 20 until the tourney is over. 

Unlike UConn and Bueckers, Booker and Texas are looking for a overmuch rarer feat successful their history. 

Texas has lone ever won the nationalist title once, backmost successful 1986. The programme has been a perennial March Madness contender passim its past and has adjacent made it to the Elite Eight successful 3 of the erstwhile 4 years, but they mislaid each time. 

Now, the Longhorns are backmost successful the Final Four for the archetypal clip since 2003. Booker is looking to transmission her golden medal occurrence representing her state to nationalist title occurrence representing the large authorities of Texas.

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Defending champion South Carolina

Then-President Joe Biden walks with Dawn Staley, manager of the University of South Carolina Women's hoops team, for an lawsuit successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, to invited the University of South Carolina Gamecocks Women's hoops squad and observe their 2023-2024 NCAA title season. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

South Carolina caput manager Dawn Staley is looking to punctual everyone who is successful complaint successful women's assemblage basketball. 

Staley is seeking for repetition titles aft defeating Clark successful the nationalist title crippled past season, her 4th rubric overall. The squad is successful the Final Four for the 5th consecutive twelvemonth and has besides proven it tin flooded the deficiency of a azygous superstar subordinate similar Bueckers and Booker, but tin besides flooded distractions arsenic well.

Last season, Staley led her squad to the rubric contempt prompting contention erstwhile she spoke successful enactment of trans athletes successful women's basketball. 

During a property conference, OutKick’s Dan Zaksheske asked Staley her thoughts connected the burning issue, and Staley did not fell her thoughts. 

"Yes, yes. So, present the barnstormer radical are going to flood my timeline and beryllium a distraction to maine connected 1 of the biggest days of our game, and I'm OK with that. I truly am," she said. "I'm of the sentiment of, if you're a woman, you should play. If you see yourself a woman, and you privation to play sports oregon vice versa, you should beryllium capable to play. That's my opinion."

However, similar Bueckers, Staley besides had nary occupation sharing her religion either, thanking God aft winning past year's title. 

"We service an unbelievable God," Staley said aft the game.

"This is the unlikeliest radical to bash it. And sometimes, I mean, God is comic similar that. He’s funny. He rips your bosom out, and He makes you believe. He makes you judge the unimaginable."

This year's squad volition thin connected a radical that does not person a household sanction superstar, but a heavy lineup of budding stars, including Joyce Edwards, Chloe Kitts and MiLaysia Fulwiley. 

Quiet juggernaut UCLA

UCLA Bruins players observe their 72-65 triumph implicit the LSU Lady Tigers to beforehand to the Final Four during the Elite Eight circular of the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament held astatine Spokane Arena connected March 30, 2025 successful Spokane, Washington. (Tyler Schank/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

UCLA finished the regular play arsenic the No. 1 ranked squad successful the full state aft a ascendant 34-2 campaign. 

For a schoolhouse that has historically been defined by men's hoops success, the women's programme has had nary amended accidental to assertion its spot successful the prima than this year. UCLA has ne'er won a women's nationalist championship, and this volition beryllium its archetypal Final Four quality ever. 

Head manager Cori Close has softly and patiently built a juggernaut of women's hoops since taking implicit the programme successful 2011. 

UCLA had not played successful a determination since 1999 erstwhile they hired her. By her 5th season, UCLA was backmost successful the Sweet 16, and the Bruins person missed lone 2 regionals since. It is the astir palmy tally the programme has experienced successful the NCAA era.

Now, the fruits of her 2022 recruiting people are coming to fruition, with stars Kiki Rice, Londynn Jones and Gabriela Jaquez acceptable to marque a tally astatine history. 

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