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Lexie Hull has been the star so far. The senior guard's career-high 36 points against Kansas is the most by a Stanford player in an NCAA tournament game since Nneka Ogwumike's 39 in the 2012 Sweet 16.
After a quick look at the bracket for the women's NCAA Tournament, which features 68 teams for the first time, here are the winners and losers.
The 40th edition of the tournament began on March 16, 2022, and concluded with the championship game on April 3 at Target Center in Minneapolis, where the South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the UConn Huskies 64–49 to win their second NCAA title, and handing UConn its first loss in the championship game.
From 1994 to 2021, 64 teams competed in each tournament. From 2022, the tournament will involve 68 teams, matching the size of the D-I men's tournament. Prior to 1996, seeding was conducted on a regional basis. The top teams (eight in the 32-, 40-, and 48-team formats, and 16 in the 64-team format) were ranked and seeded on a national basis.
Selection Sunday is also when the men's brackets and seeds are released to the public. Beginning in 2022, the women's championship brackets and seeds are also announced on Sunday. Prior to the expansion of the bracket from 64 to 68 teams the women's championship brackets and seeds were announced one day later, on Selection Monday.
South Carolina is still No. 1 — but just barely — and a No. 5 seed is climbing up the way.
The men and women conclude Sweet 16 play Sunday, setting up a complete picture of the Elite Eights. USA TODAY Sports recaps the action.
An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, a single-elimination tournament, this generally constitutes a lower seeded team defeating a higher-seeded (i.e., higher-ranked) team; a widely recognized upset is one performed by a team ranked substantially lower than its opponent.