Women's Bracketology: 2024 NCAA tournament
Bracketology is ready to hit overdrive in its 21st season on ESPN.com. With conference play hitting the home stretch, we will project the field of 68 every Tuesday and Friday, with daily updates arriving during Championship Week and leading right into Selection Sunday on March 17. Albany, New York, and Portland, Oregon, will host the regionals, as the two-site format remains for a second consecutive year. It all culminates in Cleveland at the Final Four on April 5 and 7.
Bracket Watch
It took less than 24 hours and some wild endings in the Pac-12 to shake up the NCAA tournament selection committee's top 16, which it revealed Thursday. Sunday brought even more change as Louisville fell out of the top 16. Monday brought yet another shift: Illinois upset Indiana, which had previously lost only to teams slated as No. 1 seeds (Stanford, Ohio State, Iowa), and the loss cost the Hoosiers their right to host. With the Hawkeyes visiting Bloomington on Thursday, Indiana's chances at a Big Ten title and a spot in the top 16 could be gone in a four-day span. For now, the Orange take the Hoosiers' spot at No. 16, and Syracuse, NC State and Oregon State -- teams nowhere near the top 16 in November -- would be hosting NCAA tournament games if the season ended today.
On the Bubble
Last Four Byes
Last Four In
First Four Out
Next Four Out
68-Team Bracket
Albany 1
Columbia
Spokane
- 5 Utah
- 12 Drake - aq
Blacksburg
Corvallis
- 10 Green Bay
Portland 4
Iowa
Baton Rouge
- 4 LSU
Boulder
Raleigh
Portland 2
Stanford
- 8 Ole Miss
Syracuse
Los Angeles
- 11 Iowa State
- 3
UCLA
Austin
- 10 Penn State
- 2 Texas
Albany 3
Columbus
Manhattan
Storrs
- 6 Baylor
Los Angeles
- 2 USC
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