NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament is down to its Final Four teams as the best players who are left will fight for the chance to be the first champion of Post-Caitlin Clark era.

Last year’s women’s championship game made history by getting more viewers than the gentlemen’s title game for the first time ever. Without Clark, this year’s class of championship providers has the high task of trying to keep the limelight on the women’s strip.

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Uconn faces UCLA and Texas faces South Carolina in the round.

Here is a collapse of the players who want to fight for the limelight in the last two rounds:

Uconn and Paige Bueckers

Uconn superstar Paige Bueckers has undoubtedly occupied Clarks Plads as the biggest star in Women’s College Basketball this year.

Bueckers have a chance to do what Clark never did – win a national championship. The 23-year-old Minnesota natives will certainly lean on her faith in God when she seems to achieve this goal.

Bueckers have been one of the most free -speaking players in the sport when it comes to credit her Christian faith, after referring to the countless times while coming from a torn ACL in August 2022. She thanked God as she led Uconn to the last four last year, and this year she saw this trend spread to other players in the sport.

“Yes, I think people are more outwardly in their faith and more comfortable to talk about it,” Bueckers told Pakinomist Digital at a press conference on February 19, when asked if she sees embrace Christianity becomes more common in women’s basketball and sport as a whole.

“I feel like the more you see it, the more populated it becomes, and the more comfortable everyone comes with it,” she added. “But yes, I definitely think it is growing in terms of being obvious about it.”

If the Bueckers’ faith is rewarded in this year’s March Madness race and she leads Uconn to the championship, she will make her mark on the most decorated story in Women’s College Basketball.

Uconn already has 11 national championships dating back to 1995, and is considered the most prominent dominant dynasty in the sport. So the pressure is on BUeckers to maintain this standard, at least once before she is educated. Uconn last won the title in 2016, and the program’s current championship drought has been its longest since won its first title 30 years ago.

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Then BUEKERS seems to be challenging Clark in the pros, as she is expected to be the total election # 1 of this year’s upcoming WNBA draft.

Texas and Madison Booker

Madison Booker, #35 of Texas Longhorns, responds during the second half to TCU Horned Frogs in Elite Eight round of NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament at Legacy Arena at BJCC on March 31, 2025 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

Longhorns are led by Star Madison Booker, who already has experience in competition with high effort, specifically while representing her country.

Mississippi ners have already won three gold medals in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) youth tournaments. Booker helped the United States win a gold medal at FIBA ​​under 16 Womenas America’s Championship in 2021 in Mexico, where she was an average of 6.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per year. Match.

Just next year, at the Fiba-Under-17 World Cup in 2022 in Hungary, average she 5.6 points, four rebounds and 2.3 assists per year. Play on the way to a gold medal.

The following year, at FIBA ​​under 19 women’s championship in 2023 in Spain, she average she 7.2 points and five rebounds per year. Battle for its third gold for the United States

This year, Booker was considered one of the best players in women’s basketball, won Sec Player of the Year and earned AP FIRST team all-American Honors. She did it all at the age of 19, as she doesn’t even turn 20 until the tournament is over.

Unlike Uconn and Bueckers, Booker and Texas leads after a much rarer achievement in their history.

Texas has only ever won the National Championship once, back in 1986.

Now Longhorns is back in Final Four for the first time since 2003. Booker is looking to channel his gold medal success representing its country to the national championship success representing the big state of Texas.

Defense Master South Carolina

The then President Joe Biden joins Dawn Staley, coach of the University of South Carolina Women’s Basketball Team, to an event in the eastern space of the White House in Washington, Tuesday 10 September 2024, to bid University of South Carolina Gamecock’s Women’s Basketball team and celebrate their 2023-2024 NCAA Championship season. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

South Carolina Head coach Dawn Staley seems to remind everyone who is responsible in Women’s College Basketball.

Staley is looking for repeated titles after defeating Clark in the national championship game last season, her fourth title overall. The team is in the Final Four for the fifth year in a row and has also proven that it can overcome the lack of a single superstar player like BUECKERS and BOOKER, but can also overcome distractions.

Last season, Staley led his team to the title despite getting controversy when she spoke in support of trans athletes in women’s basketball.

During a press conference, Outkicks Dan Zaksheske Staley asked his thoughts About the burning question, and Staley did not hide her thoughts.

“Yes, yes. So now the child storms -the people will flood my timeline and be a distraction for me on one of the biggest days of our game and I am well. I really am,” she said. “I am of the statement about, if you are a woman, you have to play. If you consider yourself a woman and you will play sports or vice versa, you have to be able to play. That’s my opinion.”

Like Bueckers, however, Staley had no problem sharing her faith, thanks to God after winning last year’s title.

“We serve an incredible god,” Staley said after the game.

“This is the unequal group to do it. And sometimes I mean God is funny like that. He is funny. He rips out your heart and he makes you believe. He makes you believe the unimaginable.”

This year’s team will lean on a group that does not have a household name super star, but a deep series of budding stars, including Joyce Edwards, Chloe Kitts and Milaysia Fulwiley.

Quiet Juggernaut UCLA

UCLA Bruins players celebrate their 72-65 win over LSU Lady Tigers to advance to Final Four under Elite Eight Round in 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament held at Spokane Arena on March 30, 2025 in Spokane, Washington. (Tyler Schand/NCAA -Photos via Getty Images)

UCLA ended the regular season as No. 1-ranked team throughout the country after a dominant 34-2 campaign.

For a school that has historically been defined by men’s basketball success, the women’s program has had no better opportunity to demand its place in the sun than this year. UCLA has never won a woman’s national championship, and this will be its first Final Four performance ever.

Head coach Cori Close has been quietly and patiently built a juggernaut of women’s basketball since the acquisition of the program in 2011.

UCLA hadn’t played in a regional since 1999 when they hired her. In his fifth season, UCLA was back in Sweet 16, and Bruins has only missed two regional since. It is the most successful race that the program has experienced in the NCAA era.

Now the fruits of her recruitment class from 2022 come to perform, with stars Kiki Rice, Londynn Jones and Gabriela Jaquez, who will run on the story.