There is no frontrunner leaving the pack behind in the race for the 2025 women’s national championship. No undefeated squad. No powerhouse trampling through the schedule.
The non-conference schedule featured matchups of title favorites and top teams. None of them swept their way through, a signal we could be in for a March of upsets and non-No. 1 seeds making their way to the season’s final weekend.
Here’s what we learned in the regular season:
JuJu Watkins is indeed the face of the sport
Watkins laid stake to a claim as the face of women’s basketball in a record-setting freshman campaign and then backed it up as a sophomore.