It’s one week into the 2024-25 NCAA women’s basketball season and the favorites are digging their heels in while stars are showing out against elite and lackluster competition alike. Paige Bueckers and JuJu Watkins led their top-five teams to 2-0 starts. Highly recruited freshmen Sarah Strong and Joyce Edwards stepped into starting roles for title favorites UConn and South Carolina, respectively. And a few teams stepped into the limelight via upsets of teams in a preseason poll full of speculation in the transfer portal era.
Here are three takeaways from the first week.
UConn’s health a sight to behold
What a sight to see Geno Auriemma benching all of his starters in Storrs as UConn rolled to an 86-32 season-opening victory against Boston University.