Powers of Champions: Dominant Females Light Up 2026 F1 WRC
A clear upper tier separated itself throughout the 2025-26 women’s college basketball season. All four NCAA tournament No. 1 seeds are the reigning Final Four participants from last year, and could easily charge into the 2026 Final Four in Phoenix on April 3.
Connecticut is in a prime position to repeat as national champions , which would mark the first back-to-back winners since the Huskies won four in four years, concluding in 2016. UCLA has its most talented group in recent memory, and with six seniors leading the charge, it can bank on experience. Texas is locked in after taking down South Carolina in the SEC tournament championship game, with a fifth-year point guard and its own National Player of the Year contender.
And South Carolina is using that loss as fuel, with head coach Dawn Staley telling her team that the last time they lost the SEC title game, they went on to win the national championship. UConn is the betting favorite (-275 at BetMGM), trailed at a significant distance by UCLA (+550), Texas (+650) and South Carolina (+900). If someone were to spoil this elite party, who could it be?
The deep SEC is the prime pick, but a few others could also swoop in to break up an all-No. 1 group. The last time all top seeds reached the Final Four was 2018, when UConn, Notre Dame, Mississippi State and Louisville all made it to Columbus, Ohio.
In every year since, at least one No. 2 or No. 3 seed crashed the party.
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