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ESPN
Apr 3, 2024, 09:00 AM ET
Which gamers might take the program at the females’s Final Four? Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso head to the nationwide semifinals in the spotlight. In ESPN’s last rankings of the leading 25 gamers for the 2023-24 season, we narrow the focus significantly: the finest gamers for groups that will contend in Cleveland.
Simply 7 gamers from our Sweet 16 ranking are still standing, led by Nos. 1-2 Clark and Bueckers, whose groups square off in the nationwide semifinals Friday (9 p.m. ET, ESPN). The others who are still ranked are Cardoso, Te-Hina Paopao and MiLaysia Fulwiley, UConn’s Aaliyah Edwards and NC State’s Aziaha James.
In these rankings, we put a great deal of focus on how the gamers have actually carried out throughout the NCAA competition to assist get their groups this far. South Carolina leads the list with 8 in the leading 25, fitting as the Gamecocks are the unbeaten total No. 1 seed and the group with one of the most depth.
ESPN’s Charlie Creme, Alexa Philippou and Michael Voepel take a look at the leading entertainers who will take females’s college basketball’s most significant phase.
1. Caitlin Clark, Iowa Hawkeyes
Guard|6-foot-0|senior
Statistics: 32.0 PPG, 7.3 RPG, 9.0 APG, 1.8 SPG
Simply when you believe you’ve seen it all from Clark, she drops 29 points and 15 helps in the Sweet 16, and 41 and 12 in the Elite Eight. In the local last win over LSU, she likewise connected an NCAA single-game record with 9 3-pointers. Clark has actually led Iowa to back-to-back Final Four looks and goes into the last weekend of her college profession with 3,900 points and 1,132 helps. She remained in the leading area of our gamer rankings all season.– Voepel
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Caitlin Clark amongst the finalists for the Wooden Award in ladies’s hoops
Andraya Carter and Chiney Ogwumike talk about the finalists for the Wooden Award, consisting of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and UConn’s Paige Bueckers.
2. Paige Bueckers, UConn Huskies
Guard|6-foot-0|junior
Statistics: 22.0 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 41.8% 3FG
Bueckers has actually dipped into another level this month, and she didn’t slow her roll in the Portland 3 local, where she won most impressive gamer. She is balancing 27.9 points, 8.7 rebounds, 4.7 helps, 3.1 takes and 2.6 blocks per contest in the postseason, and with a 28-point, 10-rebound, 6-assist night versus USC in the Elite Eight ended up being the very first gamer with 3 25/10/5 video games in a single NCAA competition over the previous 25 years.– Philippou
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UConn reaches record 23rd Final Four behind Bueckers’ 28-point night
Paige Bueckers ratings 28 indicate choose 10 rebounds and 6 helps as UConn tops USC to reach its 23rd Final Four.