2025 Women’s NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday: Bracket reveal, updates, tracker, immediate reactions for March Madness

Interesting note from ESPN’s interview with Division I Women’s Basketball Committee Chair Derita Dawkins: If everything goes chalk, the Final Four will see two games between teams that have already played three times this season: South Carolina vs. Texas and UCLA vs. USC.

Each team has won at least one game in both of those series, though, so they would certainly present compelling matchups anyway.

The loss vs. USC earlier this season likely made the difference here. The Huskies face No. 15 seed Arkansas State.

Oklahoma is the 3-seed and will play host to No. 14 Florida Gulf Coast.

The bracket’s final two matchups are No. 6 Iowa vs. No. 11 Murray State and No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 10 South Dakota State.

Here’s the rest of the top of the bracket for Regional 4:

No. 8 California vs. No. 9 Mississippi State
No. 5 Kansas State vs. No. 12 Fairfield
No. 4 Kentucky vs. No. 13 Liberty

The Trojans get the nod over UConn, which will likely be the No. 2 seed in Spokane’s Regional 4. USC will face No. 16 seed UNC Greensboro in the first round.

Notre Dame was the No. 1 team in the country not long ago, but its recent slide has led to a No. 3 seed in Birmingham’s Regional 3. The Fighting Irish will face No. 14 seed Stephen F. Austin.

The Horned Frogs go up against NCAA Tournament first-timer Fairleigh Dickinson.

Michigan is a No. 6 seed and will play the winner of the other 11-seed First Four game between Iowa State and Princeton. No. 7 Louisville vs. No. 10 Nebraska closes out Regional 3.

Ohio State is the 4-seed and will face Montana State. Illinois scores a solid 8-seed and a first-round matchup against 9-seed Creighton.

Tennessee is the No. 5 seed and will go up against No. 12 South Florida.

The Longhorns didn’t win the SEC title but do enter the tournament as the top seed in Birmingham’s Regional 3. They will face the winner of High Point and William & Mary in one of the two First Four games between 16-seeds.

Birmingham will be a mad house if the Blue Devils and Tar Heels face off. That is the most fun subplot thus far.

There’s another potential in-state rivalry here. UNC’s opponent is 14-seed Oregon State, while Oregon is the No. 10 seed up against No. 7 Vanderbilt.

Columbia and Washington will play each other in the First Four as 11 seeds for the right to face No. 6 West Virginia. No. 15 seed Lehigh is Duke’s first-round opponent.

The Terrapins are the 4-seed in the Birmingham Regional2 , so they will start things out at home.

No. 8 Utah vs. No. 9 Indiana and No. 5 Alabama vs. No. 12 Green Bay are the other matchups in the top half of the region.

Perhaps the Gamecocks would be the No. 1 if UCLA — who beat South Carolina earlier this season — hadn’t won the Big Ten championship.

The Wolfpack will host No. 15 seed Vermont to open things up. LSU secures the first No. 3 seed and will face No. 14 seed San Diego State in Baton Rouge.

Rounding out the Spokane Regional 1:

6 Florida State vs. 11 George Mason
7 Michigan State vs. 10 Harvard

Baylor gets the 4-seed and the right to host its first two games. The Bears start by facing Grand Canyon as a 13-seed.

Richmond vs. Georgia Tech is the 8-9 game. Ole Miss will take on Ball State in the 5-12.

As expected, the Bruins get the nod as the top team in the field and will play the Spokane Regional 1. After all, the Bruins only lost to one team all year: USC, a great team that UCLA ultimately beat in the Big Ten tournament.

The Bruins will host the winner of UC San Diego and Southern on the 16-seed line at Pauley Pavilion.

These 31 teams have gained entry to the festivities already. We still have to fill out the rest of the field and determine everyone’s seed, though.