Top 25 Women's College Basketball: LSU, UConn, Iowa Lead

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - Top 25 polls are out, both on the men's and women's side.

00:05 We'll start off with women.

00:06 I'll get your opinion on that.

00:08 LSU is the consensus number one,

00:10 followed by UConn at two.

00:13 Iowa should be right there at three.

00:15 And then it feels like that's a really strong

00:17 one, two, three to begin with.

00:18 And you have UCLA, Utah, South Carolina, and some others.

00:22 So, you know, certainly I'll lean on you for this one,

00:24 Gilbert, when you look at this,

00:26 do you see this as like a three team race to the championship

00:30 or do you think more could be involved by the end?

00:33 - You know, typically it always looks like

00:35 it's a three team race and then somebody kind of comes in

00:38 when we least expect it.

00:40 You know, you talk about the historically good programs,

00:42 like a South Carolina or Stanford,

00:45 it was a little bit lower in years past.

00:47 But when you talk about those top three teams,

00:49 you look at the star power that's present,

00:51 Angel Reese and LSU, they're the defending champions.

00:54 And as the defending champions, they added Haley Van Lith,

00:57 who averaged a shade under 20 points per game

00:58 last year at Louisville.

00:59 So LSU is going to be expected to defend their title.

01:04 But again, in any sport, at any level,

01:06 it's hard to repeat as champions,

01:08 especially when you're playing in a tournament

01:09 that's single elimination.

01:11 I'm gonna look at UConn and Paige Becker's

01:13 is back and finally healthy.

01:14 This is a player who was national player of the year

01:17 as a freshman in the past two seasons.

01:19 She's dealt with a lot of injuries.

01:20 She's coming back from an ACL injury.

01:22 So I'm glad to have her back healthy.

01:24 And she plays alongside AZ Fudd and Aaliyah Edwards.

01:28 So UConn is gonna be back to their dominant ways.

01:30 They've fallen off a little bit in years past,

01:32 but they've just dealt with so many injuries.

01:34 And then Iowa, you have to talk about Kaitlyn Clark,

01:36 one of the most special talents

01:38 that we've seen in college basketball,

01:40 men's or women's side.

01:41 What she's able to do, a nightly threat

01:42 to get a triple double.

01:44 That's really hard to do in 40 minute games.

01:46 And she makes it look pretty easy.

01:49 So when you look at those three teams,

01:51 it would kind of feel storybook for Iowa

01:53 to come up short in the championship last year

01:55 and then have the best player in college basketball

01:57 do more historic things

01:59 and then avenge that NCAA championship loss last year.

02:02 So if I had to pick a team right now,

02:04 I think I would go with Iowa.

02:05 (upbeat music)

02:08 (bells chiming)

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