2025 NCAA Women’s Tournament Top Seeds & Odds Insight

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00:00The four teams on the one line, the number one overall seed, UCLA, the champions of the Big Ten

00:05tournament, the regular season champs in the Big Ten, USC, our fourth and final one seed,

00:11and then two teams from the same conference as well fill out the rest of our one seeds. That

00:15would be South Carolina, our reigning champs, and Texas. So all four one seeds, J.Y., from the Big

00:22Ten and the SEC. But when you look at the national championship odds, it might be a little perplexing

00:28to see the national title favorites alongside the Gamecocks, not on that one line. Gino Auriemma,

00:34it's Paige Beckers, and it's the Connecticut Huskies, a plus 270 price. They are the two

00:40seed in USC's region. How do you make sense of the odds in the bracket for the women's NCAA tournament?

00:46Well, you want to talk about crazy things. They've done it. They did it again. Last year,

00:50the way they lined it up, it was Angel Reese versus Kaitlyn Clark in the Elite Eight.

00:54So now you're putting the two most polarizing figures again in the Elite Eight, now in Spokane,

00:59with Juju Watkins versus Paige Becker. And interestingly enough, even though USC is 7-1

01:05versus plus 270 for UConn, you know that USC has a win at UConn earlier this year. But why is it

01:12different now? It's been the play of AZ Fudd. She has been absolutely dynamic. Remember, she's coming

01:16off her second knee injury. She has played really, really good basketball, and it's at the point now

01:22where I think that game that they went to South Carolina about a month ago and beat them down,

01:27ending a 71-game home winning streak, bringing by almost 30, is why people are looking at UConn.

01:33I still think if Geno gets his national championship, this may be it for him.

01:38I think it's UConn, but it's going to be really enticing with them in USC.