
March Madness: How to win your NCAA women’s tournament pool and a look at what history tells us
Associated PressCongratulations to the 12 teams left in the chase for the women’s Division I national championship. Technically, yes, there are 68 teams in the women’s tournament field, but history tells us that only 12 — at the most — have a chance to be the last team standing in Tampa in a few weeks at the Final Four. So, using the less-than-five-losses theory — combined with the prerequisite of having to be a top-three seed — that leaves us with UCLA, South Carolina, Texas, TCU, USC and UConn. Here are some tips: Why the rankings matter We could almost just go ahead and say it’ll be UCLA, South Carolina, UConn, USC and Texas as the five finalists for the national title. The only teams to be ranked outside the top five in the final AP poll going into the tournament — and this year’s rankings could change in the final pre-tourney poll on Monday — were UConn, Texas A&M, Tennessee, LSU and Tennessee.
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