Women's Bracketology: 2024 NCAA tournament
We will project the field of 68 every week from now until Selection Sunday on March 17. Our bracket updates every Tuesday through December before shifting to semiweekly projections (Tuesday and Friday) once conference play begins in January. Albany, New York, and Portland, Oregon, will host the regionals, as the two-site format remains for a second consecutive year. It all culminates in Cleveland at the Final Four on April 5 and 7.
Bracket Watch
The ACC checks in with 10 teams in the field for the second consecutive week. Will that come to be in March? Probably not. But while nine seems possible, 10 is the reality right now. Due to a quirk in the schedule, just one league game has been played in the ACC: Clemson upset Duke. That puts the Tigers atop the ACC standings; under the rules of Bracketology, that makes them the league's automatic qualifier. At 6-5, Clemson wouldn't be close to an at-large bid, making the Tigers the quintessential bid stealer. (Sorry, Minnesota.) While Clemson likely won't ultimately win the ACC's auto bid, this scenario shines a light on the type of bid stealing that could happen, with the WCC and MWC as the leading examples. It's never too early for potential bubble teams to be on high alert.
On the Bubble
Last Four Byes
Last Four In
First Four Out
Next Four Out
68-Team Bracket
Albany 1
Columbia
Bloomington
- 4
Indiana
Waco
- 3
Baylor
Boulder
- 10 Texas Tech
- 2 Colorado
- 15
Albany - aq
Albany 4
Raleigh
Milwaukee
- 13 Clemson - aq
Salt Lake City
- 3 Utah
Austin
- 10 Ole Miss
- 15 Lehigh - aq
Portland 2
Los Angeles
- 1 UCLA
Columbus
Ohio State
Los Angeles
Portland 3
Iowa City
- 9 Syracuse
South Bend
- 5 UConn
Baton Rouge
- 3 LSU
Stanford
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