Final 2023 Women’s Bracketology

For the first time this year I decided to take a stab at bracketology for the NCAA women’s tournament. Men’s and women’s bracketology is a bit of a different game- a lot of the team sheet metrics that I’m used to using (SOR, predictive metrics etc.) aren’t available for the women’s tournament so I relied more on quadrant records to make this projection.

I’m much less confident in these projections than I am in my men’s bracketology as I haven’t been following along all season, but I’m curious to see how well they do. There are some interesting teams to seed here, most notably some very strong mid-majors like Columbia, UNLV and Florida Gulf Coast.

1: South Carolina, Indiana, Connecticut, Stanford

2: Virginia Tech, Iowa, LSU, Utah

3: Maryland, Duke, Notre Dame, Villanova

4: Ohio State, UCLA, Texas, North Carolina

5: Iowa State, Colorado, Washington State, Creighton

6: Florida State, Oklahoma, Tennessee, South Florida

7: Michigan, NC State, UNLV, Louisville

8: USC, Middle Tennessee, Arizona, Gonzaga

9: Baylor, Ole Miss, Columbia, Alabama

10: South Dakota State, Illinois, Florida Gulf Coast, Marquette

11: St. John’s, Oregon, Princeton, (Georgia/Miami (FL))

12: (Purdue/Oklahoma State), Drake, Toledo, Cleveland State

13: East Carolina, Portland, Sacramento State, Gardner-Webb

14: James Madison, Saint Louis, Southern Utah, Vermont

15: Iona, Holy Cross, Southeastern Louisiana, Norfolk State

16: Hawai’i, Chattanooga, (Monmouth/Tennessee Tech), (Southern/Sacred Heart)

First Four Out: Massachusetts, West Virginia, Mississippi State, Rhode Island

Next Four Out: Kansas, Missouri, Michigan State, Syracuse

Bids by Conference:

ACC: 8

Pac-12: 8

Big Ten: 7

SEC: 6

Big 12: 5

Big East: 5

American: 2

Ivy League: 2

West Coast: 2