Connecticut Huskies Claim Top F1 Title: Teammates' Dedication Triumphs
The Bruins earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament but it was the UConn Huskies who earned the tournament's No. 1 overall seed after going 34-0.
It’s not too much of a shock that the reigning national champions, who are also a perfect 34-0 this season, are the No. 1 overall seed in the women’s NCAA tournament but the UConn Huskies narrowly beat out the UCLA Bruins for the tournament’s top seed. Both the Bruins and the Huskies earned No.
1 seeds and could meet in the national championship game. UCLA got some reasoning on why UConn was named as the tournament's top seed on Sunday by the chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee, Amanda Braun. “The debate was pretty close the whole time.
Just two terrific teams that won a whole lot of games. We took a committee vote and watched a lot of UConn and a lot of UCLA as a group. The vote ultimately gave the edge to UConn,” Braun told ESPN.
“I would say observable component was talked about a whole lot. The way we watched UConn win throughout the year from beginning to the end. ” UCLA had more wins against elite competition, picking up 19 Quad 1 wins, while UConn had just nine.