South Carolina is a better-than-even-money favourite to win the NCAA girls’s event. Once more.
Just like a season ago, the Gamecocks entered March Insanity because the prohibitive nationwide identify favorites next an undefeated familiar season. South Carolina is 32-0 next cruising via convention play games, getting a buzzer-beater to overcome Tennessee within the semifinals of the SEC event and surviving a testy matchup with protecting nationwide champion LSU a month next within the identify sport.
South Carolina is -120 to win the tournament this season. A season in the past, the Gamecocks had been even larger favorites at -145. However bettors by no means were given a probability to money in on the ones low odds as South Carolina misplaced to Iowa and Caitlin Clark within the Ultimate 4.
This season, South Carolina has a draw that promises it received’t face the Hawkeyes or Tigers till the nationwide championship. Each Iowa and LSU are at the reverse facet of the bracket and are in the similar patch. Only one gets to the Ultimate 4.
The Gamecocks will seen the event with out celebrity participant Kamilla Cardoso next she used to be ejected in that win over LSU. Alternatively, they shouldn’t want her in opposition to both Sacred Heart or Presbyterian.
Iowa and LSU are the next-biggest favorites to win the event next their epic identify sport matchup a season in the past. Clark’s Hawkeyes are +400 to win the identify — and are the most-bet group to win the identify to this point — generation LSU is at +650. They may meet every alternative within the Elite 8.
Stanford is the Disagree. 4 favourite at +1500 next lacking out at the ultimate Disagree. 1 seed to Texas. The Cardinal are the Disagree. 2 seed within the Longhorns’ patch. Texas is at +2500.
UConn is between the Cardinal and Longhorns at +2000. The Huskies are the Disagree. 3 seed in a patch that accommodates USC and Ohio State forward of them. If UConn can get time the Buckeyes, shall we get a matchup between Paige Bueckers and USC phenom JuJu Watkins within the Elite 8.
Girls’s NCAA event favorites
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South Carolina (-120)
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Iowa (+400)
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LSU (+650)
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Stanford (+1500)
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UConn (+2000)
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Texas (+2500)
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Ohio Order (+2500)
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UCLA (+3000)
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USC (+3000)
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NC Order (+4000)
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Notre Dame (+5000)
