This March Madness in women’s basketball is producing fewer upsets but closer games
Associated PressThis spotlight season for women’s college basketball isn’t merely creating brighter stars and bigger ratings. The top 16 women’s seeds play at home for the first two rounds while all men’s games are at neutral sites. Eleven lower seeds won in the first round of the men’s tournament, with Middle Tennessee the lone first-round winner among lower seeds in the women’s division. The underdogs The women’s tournament doesn’t have any Cinderella stories to rival North Carolina State’s march to the men’s Final Four as a No. Final Four familiarity The men’s tournament features defending champion UConn but also has Alabama making its first Final Four appearance ever, Purdue made it for the first time since 1980 and North Carolina State is here for the first time since its 1983 championship.