Women’s March Madness bracket live updates: Selection Sunday time, how to watch

• Women’s March Madness is here! The 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket will be released on Selection Sunday.
• Follow along for live updates and news on the 68-team women’s basketball bracket, including time, TV channel and stream for the women’s selection show and a printable bracket with times and locations.

The women’s college basketball bracket reveal for the 2025 NCAA tournament starts tonight on the Selection Sunday show. It will determine which 68 teams will make it to March Madness. Poised to take the top seeds are: Lauren Betts and UCLA, JuJu Watkins and USC, MiLaysia Fulwiley and South Carolina, Madison Booker and Texas. Meanwhile, Paige Bueckers and UConn are in line for a No. 2 seed.

USA TODAY Sports will provide the latest bracket reveal updates, news, analysis and more throughout the day. Follow along. 

Selection Sunday for women’s college basketball is today, Sunday, March 16, 2025. 

The women’s selection show begins at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 16. ESPN is airing the show. 

Watch Women’s Selection Sunday show live with Fubo (free trial)

The Williams & Mary women’s basketball team pulled off a 66-63 win over Campbell in the Coastal Athletic Association tournament to earn an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament. Bella Nascimento led the Tribe with a double-double of 11 rebounds and 33 points on 14-of-26 shooting.

George Mason was winless in the Atlantic 10 four years ago. Last week, the Patriots beat St. Joseph’s to win the conference tournament. It also was George Mason’s 28th win, extending the program’s single-season record.

“We asked these players, four years ago, to believe in something that was nowhere near present,” Patriots coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis said, according to The Washington Post.

Here are the latest women’s bracket projections from experts.

• USA Today staff (as of Saturday evening): South Carolina, UCLA, Texas, USC
• ESPN’s Charlie Creme (as of Saturday evening): South Carolina, UCLA, USC, Texas
• NCAA’s Autumn Johnson (as of Tuesday): UCLA, South Carolina, USC, Texas
• CBS’ Connor Groel (as of Tuesday): UCLA, South Carolina, Texas, USC 

Here’s a blank printable NCAA women’s tournament bracket.

How many teams in women’s March Madness? 

Sixty-eight teams that make the tournament, including the eight teams that will have to play in the First Four games. There are 31 conference tournaments that produce 31 automatic bids. The other 37 at-large teams selected to the field will be announced on Selection Sunday. Here are the teams that won their conference tournaments to secure automatic bids.

• American East: Vermont
• American Athletic: South Florida
• Atlantic 10: George Mason
• ACC: Duke
• ASUN: Florida Gulf Coast
• Big 12: TCU
• Big East: UConn
• Big Sky: Montana State
• Big South: High Point
• Big Ten: UCLA
• Big West: UC San Diego
• CAA: William & Mary
• Conference USA: Liberty
• Horizon League: Green Bay
• Ivy League: Harvard
• MAAC: Fairfield
• MAC: Ball State
• MEAC: Norfolk State
• Missouri Valley: Murray State
• Mountain West: San Diego State
• Northeast: FDU
• Ohio Valley: Tennessee Tech
• Patriot League: Lehigh
• SEC: South Carolina
• SoCon: UNC Greensboro
• Southland: Stephen F. Austin
• SWAC: Southern
• Summit League: South Dakota State
• Sun Belt: Arkansas State
• West Coast: Oregon State
• WAC: Grand Canyon

Paige Bueckers stats 

2024-25 stats: 19.0 PPG, 4.9 APG, 4.5 RPG, 53.6 FG%, 40.6 3PT% 

The 2025 WNBA draft isn’t called the Paige Bueckers sweepstakes for nothing. Bueckers burst onto the scene in 2021 with a breakout freshman campaign that earned her AP Player of the Year and Naismith College Player of the Year honors. Although a string of injuries forced Bueckers to miss significant time, including the entire 2022-23 season with an ACL tear, the fifth-year senior guard has returned to form and is looking to lead the Huskies to the Final Four for the fourth time in her career. Bueckers is currently UConn women’s basketball’s sixth all-time leading scorer with 2,290 points and is widely expected to be the No. 1 overall pick of the draft. 

Here is the women’s schedule: 

• Selection Sunday: 8 p.m. ET Sunday, March 16 on ESPN
• First Four: March 19-20
• First round: March 21-22
• Second round: March 23-24
• Sweet 16: March 28-29
• Elite Eight: March 30-March 31
• Final Four: Friday, April 4, 7 p.m. ET on ESPN, hosted at Amalie Arena in Tampa. Second game starts 30 minutes after first game ends.
• NCAA championship game: Sunday, April 6 at 3 p.m. ET on ABC, hosted at Amalie Arena in Tampa.

The USA TODAY Sports Bracket Challenge is back. There’s a $1 million grand prize for a perfect bracke. The Challenge is free to enter for those age 21 and over. Terms apply, void where prohibited by law. See official rules and get in the game. 

This post was originally published on this site be sure to check out more of their content.