South Carolina has opened at +450 to win next season's NCAA women's basketball tournament, the shortest of any team on the odds board, according to ESPN BET lines. USC came in next at +500, followed by national champion UConn at +600.

UConn is back on top of women’s basketball, winning its 12th national championship by routing defending champion South Carolina 82-59 behind Azzi Fudd’s 24 points

Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd and Sarah Strong lead the way in a dominant victory over the defending champion Gamecocks, securing the Huskies’ 12th women’s basketball championship.

The Huskies used to be the cream of the crop in women’s basketball, but that title has been grasped by Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks in recent years. UConn has been in every national tournament since 1989,

The UConn star was named the 2025 Final Four Most Outstanding Player following her 24-point performance in the national championship win over South Carolina. Fudd added 5 rebounds and 3 steals, capping a dominant title game that helped seal the Huskies’ 12th NCAA championship — and first since 2016.

The thing about legends? They just can’t stop proving their greatness (See: Paige Bueckers and Geno Auriemma). UConn women's basketball is back on top

Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd and Sarah Strong powered UConn to the program's first national title in nearly a decade and 12th overall.

Believe it or not, it’s been nearly 10 years since UConn won the Women’s NCAA Tournament. The Huskies last cut down the nets in 2016, capping off an undefeated season and a four-peat. UConn will look to end its “drought” in Sunday’s National Championship.

How do you sum up UConn's latest national title under Geno Auriemma? The answer for ESPN's Ryan Ruocco is to focus on Huskies superstar Paige Bueckers, who proved she was the biggest superstar in the women's NCAA tournament who's finishing a storybook college career as she presumably heads to the WNBA.