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Women's NCAA Tournament winners, losers: Final Four matchups are set

Published 2 weeks ago3 minute read

After the completion of Monday's women's NCAA Tournament games, the field for the women's Final Four is set.

With the games came good and bad performances, so here are three winners and losers from Monday night's action.

Three of the teams in the women's Final Four are No. 1 seeds (South Carolina, Texas, UCLA). USC is the only No. 1 seed that failed to make it.

USC may have very well been there if not for the injury to star point guard JuJu Watkins. An all-one-seed Final Four would've been the first time it had happened since the 2017-18 season.

The UConn duo of Bueckers and Sarah Strong combined for 53 of the team's 78 points and 10 of the team's 16 assists.

The individual lines for each were 31 points and six assists for Bueckers, and for Strong, it was 22 points, 17 rebounds and four assists. Both played a key role in helping the Huskies reach their 16th Final Four in the last 17 seasons.

With a dominant 58-47 win over TCU, Texas advanced to its first appearance in the Final Four since 2003.

Not only did the Longhorns advance, but they will get another chance against South Carolina. The two teams have already met three times this season, with the Gamecocks winning two of three. The ultimate revenge would see Texas ending South Carolina's chances of back-to-back national championships.

2 MORE WINS #HookEm pic.twitter.com/2sxyP6Dbu8

— Texas Women's Basketball (@TexasWBB) April 1, 2025

Prince was an instrumental part of TCU's success in the 2024-25 season, but she had one of her worst games of the season in what could be the last game of her college career.

She scored just four points and fouled out of the game less than halfway into the fourth quarter. Four points were her second-lowest total of the year, behind her game with zero points in February against Iowa State. To make matters worse, Prince's final game came against Texas, the school where she started her college basketball career.

TCU went into Monday averaging 77.6 points per game on the season. It was held to just 47 points in the loss to Texas, its least in a game since scoring just 50 points in a February loss to Kansas State. It was an unfortunate time for one of the lowest-scoring games of the year for the Horned Frogs.

USC's game against Connecticut would have looked so much different with Watkins in the game and playing 35-40 minutes.

Without her, the Trojans could not find enough offense to keep up with the Huskies, and the game ultimately became well out of reach, with UConn winning 78-64.

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