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USC, UConn women in same March Madness regional? NCAA selection committee must hate fun
The selection committee blew it.
Not by putting UCLA as the overall No. 1 seed over South Carolina. That was the right call because of their head-to-head matchup, regardless of what Dawn Staley says.
No, where the committee erred was in making USC the No. 1 seed and UConn the No. 2 seed in the Spokane 4 regional, setting JuJu Watkins and Paige Bueckers on a collision course that would end short of the Final Four. Just like last year.
"There was no consideration of that," Derita Dawkins, who is the chair of the selection committee, said Sunday night after the 68-team bracket was announced.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2025/03/17/usc-vs-uconn-womens-march-madness-bracket/82323559007/