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Sweet 16: Villanova's Maddy Siegrist leaving her mark through record books and leadership

Yahoo Sports women’s college basketball analyst Cassandra Negley looks at the players who could find innovative ways to lead their teams to victory during the Greenville and Seattle regionals of the women’s NCAA tournament.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Christina Dalce was used to filling out a bracket each March, penciling in teams she thought would advance, but having no input on what teams actually would.

A year ago as a freshman at Villanova, suddenly she had a say in how at least one team fared. As the then-No. 11 seeded Wildcats began their first NCAA women’s basketball tournament since 2018, Maddy Siegrist turned to Dalce and the full freshman class with a message.