Championship week is on. The Ohio Valley Conference will crown the first champion on Saturday. On Selection Sunday on March 12, 32 college women’s basketball teams will qualify for the 2023 NCAA women’s tournament.
Which team will earn Automatic bids in each conference? Will the regular season champions make it through and win the conference tournaments? Or will the shuffles leave some favorites waiting for a big invite to March Madness?
ESPN’s Charlie Creme, Alexa Philippou and MA Voepel predict the winners for all 32 leagues below.
Tournaments are listed in the order in which tickets will be punched. Creme will continue to show field 68 in women learning frame right on Selection Sunday.
The NCAA Award opens March 15-16 with the First Four and will be crowned the 2023 national champion in Dallas on April 2. Be sure to sign up. Women’s Tournament Challenge.
consensus choice
The group listed first/alone is the consensus selection in each conference; The teams listed in parentheses received one vote as the most favorite team in the conference.
* Indicates a unanimous choice from our panel to win the conference race.
ACC: Virginia Tech Hobby (North Carolina High Heels)
East America: Great Dane Albany (Catamounts Vermont)
American: South Florida Bulls (Houston cougar)
Atlantic 10: UMass Minutewomen (Rhode Island Rams)
SUN: Florida Gulf Coast Eagles*
Big 12: Texas longhorn (Oklahoma Sooners)
Big East: UConn Huskies (Villanova forest cat)
Big sky: Sacramento State Wasp (Northern Arizona lumberjacks)
Great South: Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs
Big Ten: Indiana Hoosiers*
Great West: Anteater UC Irvine (Long Beach State Beach)
Colony: Disagree (Sea Wolf Stony Brook, Dragon Drexel, Tiger Towson)
United States Conference: Middle Tennessee Lady Raiders
Horizon Federation: Phoenix Blue Bay (Cleveland State Vikings)
Ivy League: Princeton Tiger (Colombian lion)
MAAC: Gael Iona (Quinnipiac lynx)
MAC: Toledo rocket (Cardinal Ball State)
MEAC: Spartans of Norfolk*
Missouri Valley: Disagree (Belmont Bruins, Drake Bulldogs, Illinois Redbird)
West Mountain: Female Rebels UNLV*
Northeast: Knight Fairleigh Dickinson*
Ohio Valley: Trojan Little Rock*
Pac-12: Cardinal Stanford*
Patriotic Union: Boston Terrier University*
SECOND: South Carolina fighting cock*
Southern: Disagree (bear Mercer, East Tennessee State Bucs, Wofford Terrier)
southern: Cardinal Lamar (SE Louisiana Lady Lions)
SWAC: The Tigers of Jackson State*
Important conference: Jackrabbits South Dakota State*
Sun belt: Duke James Madison (The City of Troy)
West Coast: Bulldog Gonzaga*
WAC: Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks (Southern Utah Thunderbirds)
