{"id":69398,"date":"2026-03-19T04:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/march-madness-2026-womens-predictions-can-anyone-thwart-a-uconn-repeat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:55:53","slug":"march-madness-2026-womens-predictions-can-anyone-thwart-a-uconn-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/march-madness-2026-womens-predictions-can-anyone-thwart-a-uconn-repeat\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness 2026 women\u2019s predictions: can anyone thwart a UConn repeat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone derail the Connecticut juggernaut? Our contributors pick the winners, sleepers and upsets for this year\u2019s women\u2019s NCAA Tournament<\/p>\n<p><strong>There have been just four women\u2019s Final Fours featuring all No 1 seeds. This year feels like it could give us the fifth.<\/strong> UConn v South Carolina would be a tantalizing rematch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/06\/uconn-win-ncaa-womens-tournament-2025\">last year\u2019s national championship game<\/a> \u2013 made even more interesting by the fact they didn\u2019t meet in the regular season for the first time since 2014-15. Texas held off a late UCLA comeback when they played in November, but the Bruins have rolled off 25 straight wins since. <strong>EB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/19\/womens-ncaa-tournament-predictions-bracket\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone derail the Connecticut juggernaut? Our contributors pick the winners, sleepers and upsets for this year\u2019s women\u2019s NCAA Tournament There have been just four women\u2019s Final Fours featuring all No 1 seeds. This year feels like it could give us the fifth. UConn v South Carolina would be a tantalizing rematch of last year\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"March Madness 2026 women\u2019s predictions: can anyone thwart a UConn repeat?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/march-madness-2026-womens-predictions-can-anyone-thwart-a-uconn-repeat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about March Madness 2026 women\u2019s predictions: can anyone thwart a UConn repeat?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}