National championship game predictions, picks, odds
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Yahoo Sports |
The Gators were led by a tremendous performance from star guard Walter Clayton Jr. (34 points).
The New York Times |
Eleven voters picked Duke to win the national championship, followed by six for Florida and five for Houston.
The New York Times |
Houston stunned Duke in the Final Four, closing the game on a 25-8 run to advance to their first national title game since 1984.
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With a strong first half that gave them a 10-point lead headed into the break, the favored UConn Huskies dominated South Carolina on Sunday afternoon, winning the program's 12th national title under legendary coach Geno Auriemma.
Clayton rekindled all kinds of college basketball history leading the Gators to yet another comeback in the Alamodome
Bree Hall, Raven Johnson and Sania Feagin are one win away from a third national championship for South Carolina under Dawn Staley.
UConn coach Geno Auriemma called his Huskies and their national championship game opponent, South Carolina, "the two most prominent programs right now in women's college basketball."
Even in a Final Four with three No. 1 seeds, No. 2 UConn is the clear favorite to win the national title now that the Final Four is set.
Sunday’s national championship game against South Carolina is the last chance for UConn’s Paige Bueckers to cut down the nets.
But Bueckers is the only player in program history to be named national player of the year (2021) and earn multiple All-America nods (three-time first-team Associated Press All-American) to not win a championship.