NY Times · Mar 14, 2022
N.C.A.A. Women’s Bracket: Double-Digit Seeds Could Be the Ones to Watch
Kansas State junior Ayoka Lee, right, could make the Wildcats a threat as a No. 9 seed.Credit...Charlie Neibergall/Associated PressThe top seeds fell into place as predicted. Stanford, the reigning champions; South Carolina, North Carolina State and Louisville garnered the top four seeds in the 2022 women’s Division I tournament — but that doesn’t make it any easier to follow the chalk when filling out your own bracket.
If anything, these four teams’ static standing atop projections has betrayed some of their weaknesses. Analysts have already picked apart their worthiness, while late-surging teams like Iowa and Kentucky are coming into the tournament seeded lower, but with all the momentum.
