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The last 16 seasons that the Women’s NCAA Tournament has been held, the UConn Huskies have only failed to make the Final Four once (2023) and Geno Auriemma enters March Madness 2025 as an 11-time national champion. Auriemma and the Huskies are a No. 2 seed in the 2025 Women’s NCAA Tournament bracket and they’ll try to fight their way out of the Spokane 4 region and back to the Final Four, which will be held at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. on April 4 and 6. Paige Bueckers is a former national player of the year for the Huskies, but she’s still looking to cap off her career with her first national championship at the Women’s 2025 NCAA Tournament.
Who poses the biggest threat to UConn making its 24th Final Four appearance under Auriemma and what are the potential 2025 March Madness women’s upsets you should include in your 2025 March Madness bracket picks? Before making any 2025 March Madness bracket predictions, be sure to check out the 2025 NCAA Women’s Tournament bracket picks from experts Calvin Wetzel and Aaron Barzilai.
Barzilai is a Ph.D. from Stanford who served as Director of Basketball Analytics for the Philadelphia 76ers that founded HerHoopStats.com, where Wetzel uses his mathematical background and strong knowledge of women’s hoops to turn the site’s prediction model into picks. Barzilai and Wetzel went 543-383 overall (+122.89 units) during the 2023-24 women’s college basketball campaign and posted a 125-71-1 record (+44.33 units) so far in 24-25. Barzilai also nailed last year’s win by Iowa over UConn and called three Final Four teams
There’s simply no reason to rely on luck when these proven experts can help you dominate your 2025 March Madness pools. Now, with the 2025 NCAA Women’s bracket revealed, the experts have revealed their picks for every game. You can only see them all over at SportsLine.
2025 NCAA Women’s bracket teams to watch
One of the 2025 March Madness teams to keep an eye on in the women’s bracket: JuJu Watkins and the USC Trojans, who earned the No. 1 seed in the Spokane 4 region. USC women’s basketball has an incredibly proud history, winning national titles in two of the first three year’s that the women’s tournament was held. However, the program hasn’t been to the Final Four since 1986, but Watkins will hope to change that as the likely national player of the year. Watkins led USC to the Elite Eight last year as a No. 1 seed, but the Trojans were knocked out by UConn. Now she might get a chance at revenge with UConn seeded No. 2 in the region.
Meanwhile, South Carolina is the team to watch in the Birmingham 2 region. Staley is now a three-time national championship winner and she’s led South Carolina to the Final Four in each of the last four years. The Gamecocks are 30-3 entering March Madness, giving them four seasons in a row of 30 wins or more. Depth has been South Carolina’s calling card this season, with the team’s two leading scorers (Joyce Edwards and MiLaysia Fulwiley) both coming off the bench. That second-unit scoring could be critical to the Gamecocks reaching another Final Four and winning Staley a fourth career championship.
The Texas Longhorns will be another 2025 NCAA Women’s Tournament team to watch in the Birmingham 3 region. The Longhorns are the fourth and final No. 1 seed in the 2025 Women’s March Madness bracket after winning a share of the SEC regular-season title and losing in the tournament championship game to South Carolina. Texas is led by sophomore forward Madison Booker, who earned All-American honors after averaging 16.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. Booker shot 43.9% from the 3-point line this season and her ability to score both inside and out will be critical for Vic Schaefer’s squad. You can see how far all these teams go over at SportsLine.
How to make 2025 NCAA Women’s bracket predictions
How far will those major programs go, and which Cinderella teams will make surprising runs through the 2025 NCAA Women’s Tournament bracket? With the experts’ track record of crushing their women’s basketball picks, you’ll want to see which stunners they are calling for this year before locking in any women’s NCAA bracket picks.
So what’s the optimal NCAA Tournament bracket 2025? And which March Madness underdogs will shock women’s college basketball? Visit SportsLine now to see which teams you can back with confidence, all from the proven experts who are hitting nearly 60% of their women’s college basketball picks since the start of last season.
