As the 2025 Women's Basketball Tournament prepares for its Final Four, it's clear that the remaining teams have been college basketball's elite teams all season. The sport's most decorated program in UConn, hard-nosed Texas, breakout Final Four first-timer UCLA and defending national champion South Carolina converge in Tampa with a combined 138 wins between them this season. As the teams look to notch two more wins in order to capture the national championship, the following 11 players are poised to determine which of these dominant squads will leave Florida with the title. --Paige Bueckers, UConn, and Lauren Betts, UCLA Beginning with the two most obvious candidates, Paige Bueckers and Lauren Betts have been two of college basketball's most outstanding players all season.
11 players who will determine the national championship
