{"id":70457,"date":"2026-03-31T06:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/womens-final-four-on-repeat-as-uconn-ucla-texas-and-south-carolina-fight-for-title\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:56:53","slug":"womens-final-four-on-repeat-as-uconn-ucla-texas-and-south-carolina-fight-for-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/womens-final-four-on-repeat-as-uconn-ucla-texas-and-south-carolina-fight-for-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Final Four on repeat as UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina fight for title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Champions UConn face South Carolina on Friday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Bruins will take on Longhorns in other semi-final<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The women\u2019s Final Four is on repeat. No 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second straight season, just the second time the same teams have reached the sport\u2019s final weekend in consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p> Only the matchups and location will be different this time. Reigning national champion UConn will face South Carolina on Friday in Phoenix after playing UCLA last season. The Bruins will take on the Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think people understand how hard it is to do it,\u201d Texas coach Vic Schaefer said. \u201cI think it bodes well for all of us, but there\u2019s four or five more teams right there nipping at your heels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Just not this season \u2013 or last. The only other time the same four teams reached consecutive Final Fours was when UConn, Tennessee, Stanford and Georgia did so from 1995-96.<\/p>\n<p> Everyone will be trying to stop the Huskies in this one. UConn have been the standard in women\u2019s college basketball under coach Geno Auriemma. The Huskies have won 12 national championships, played in 25 Final Fours \u2013 a record 14 straight from 2008-22 \u2013 and have won 1,288 games in 41 seasons under Auriemma.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/31\/womens-final-four-on-repeat-as-uconn-ucla-texas-and-south-carolina-fight-for-title\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champions UConn face South Carolina on Friday Bruins will take on Longhorns in other semi-final The women\u2019s Final Four is on repeat. No 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second straight season, just the second time the same teams have reached the sport\u2019s final weekend in &#8230; <a title=\"Women\u2019s Final Four on repeat as UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina fight for title\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/womens-final-four-on-repeat-as-uconn-ucla-texas-and-south-carolina-fight-for-title\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Women\u2019s Final Four on repeat as UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina fight for title\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70457","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=70457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}