Women's basketball has more contenders, but bracket-busting remains the exception.
over the last decade: No. 5 Louisville in 2013 and No. 7 Washington in 2016. That’s a fraction of thelower seeded men’s teams — including three double-digit seeds — that made the Final Four in that span.
At the same time, analysts point out, the women’s game has more contenders than it ever has. Five different schools — representing five different conferences — have won the past five national championships.“If you go back even before the last decade you said okay it’s going to be Stanford, or it’s going to be Tennessee, or it’s going to be U-Conn.,” said Washington Mystics General Manager and Coach Mike Thibault, an analyst for ESPN’s tournament coverage.
Even phenomenal individual players on lower-seeded teams — think Stephen Curry, who carried 10th-seeded Davidson to the Elite Eight in 2008 — haven’t often managed similar feats in the women’s event. Delaware’s Jasmine Dickey is the third-leading scorer in the country; she will face Maryland in College Park on Friday, with a chance to shoot No. 13 Delaware past the Terrapins.
The dominant teams on the women’s side are also don’t have to concern themselves with one-and-done players heading to the pros. Instead, they can stockpile talent over four years and widen their advantage while weathering attrition. For example, Connecticut lost reigning national player of the year Paige Bueckers for nearly three months to a left knee injury
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