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2013 NCAA Tournament: Brackets, previews & predictions
Previews and predictions for the 2013 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. For capsules for each team in the tournament, check out our "Dance Cards" section. For more on the tournament, visit our NCAA Tournament section. For a full bracket, visit SBNation.com.
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April 9, 2013
Open Thread: Women's Championship Tonight
Can Louisville finish the sweep? Or will UConn win its eighth national championship?
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April 7, 2013
Open Thread: Final Four Begins Today
Can Coach Gottlieb, Layshia Clarendon and the Bears beat out Coach Walz, Shoni Schimmel and the Cardinals? Will Skylar Diggins and Coach McGraw lead the Irish past Coach Auriemma, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Breanna Stewart, and the Huskies FOUR TIMES?!
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April 2, 2013
Open Thread: The Elite Eight concludes tonight!
Notre Dame, Duke, Tennessee, and Louisville, as they go for two more Final Four spots. And of the "Big Three," Skylar Diggins is still on the docket!
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April 1, 2013
Open Thread: Bridgeport & Spokane Finals Today
Can UK Hoops and the Cal women's basketball squads get to their first Final Fours? Find out tonight!
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April 1, 2013
Auriemma on the Elite Eight, Kentucky & Dolson
Connecticut Huskies coach Geno Auriemma chats about chats about returning to the Elite Eight, facing the Kentucky Wildcats, and center Stefanie Dolson's toughness in playing hurt.
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March 31, 2013
Sweet 16 preview: Aaryn Ellenberg key to upset bid
Obviously most of the talk today will be about Baylor Lady Bears center Brittney Griner. But the Oklahoma Sooners and Tennessee Lady Vols matchup might be the better game between a pair of teams that have overcome quite a bit to get to this point.
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March 31, 2013
Open Thread: Griner and Diggins play today!
More Sweet 16 games, and maybe even more upsets? In regular terms, the Norfolk and OKC regionals begin today.
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March 30, 2013
Can LSU or UGA prevent a Cal-Stanford rematch?
Since Selection Monday, the prospect of a third meeting between the California Golden Bears and Stanford has been discussed widely. Now with both teams a game away from making that happen, what's standing in the way of an Elite Eight meeting?
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March 30, 2013
Bridgeport preview: Can a star lead an upset?
The Bridgeport region kicks off Sweet 16 play, featuring Delaware's Elena Delle Donne who's looking to carry her team once again in an attempt to make the Final Four.
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March 30, 2013
Open Thread: Bridgeport and Spokane Regionals
Will EDD get to the Elite Eight and potentially face the school she first committed to? Will we see another potential rematch of Cal-Stanford?
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March 29, 2013
Q&A with Geno Auriemma: Sweet 16 a great reward
We got some comments today from UConn's Geno Auriemma at the Bridgeport Regional practice.
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March 29, 2013
Q&A with Elena Delle Donne
A brief set of responses from Delaware Blue Hens star Elena Delle Donne captured from a combination of the press conference in Bridgeport and a one-on-one interview.
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March 26, 2013
Open Thread: More 2nd Round NCAA Games
The Big Three tries to get into the Sweet 16. And while Michigan and Stanford make a great football match in the Rose Bowl, today the women's basketball teams will fight to survive and advance.
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March 25, 2013
Second round upset projections: Delaware, ISU, UL
A look at games in the second round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament that might not go according to seed based on Massey predictions.
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March 24, 2013
Open Thread: More NCAA 1st Round Games
The Big Three will play and their fans will cheer them on.
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March 24, 2013
The OKC bracket: Key matchups aside from Baylor
The Baylor Lady Bears are the top seed in the Oklahoma City Bracket and the favorite to win the national title. However, there are a number of interesting matchups, both individual and team, that are worth watching.
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March 23, 2013
Coach P's journal: Getting prepared for Hampton
Duke women's basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie shares what she did during Spring Break, Chelsea Gray's status, applying insights from Sheryl Sandberg's book "Lean In" to basketball and, of course, getting ready for Hampton.
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March 23, 2013
Statistical projections for the first round
There are a bunch of different statistical projections for the 2013 NCAA women's basketball tournament out there for the first round and the entire tournament and I'm just going to link dump those here for now:
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March 23, 2013
Norfolk preview: Will Nebraska suffer an upset?
While Notre Dame is the clear favorite in the Norfolk region, Nebraska is a team that might be the biggest favorite in the tournament to be on the wrong end of an upset.
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March 22, 2013
Bridgeport bracket: Can anyone challenge UConn?
There's a lot of uncertainty among the sub-regionals in the Bridgeport bracket, aside from the Connecticut Huskies in Storrs. Yet after that, not everyone believes that the Huskies will advance to the Final Four unchallenged.
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March 20, 2013
Join the Swish Appeal/RTT bracket pool, win prizes
Swish Appeal and SB Nation's Rocky Top Talk have partnered up to host a bracket challenge with a grand prize of a $50 Ticketmaster gift card to spend on tickets to the event of your choice (hopefully a basketball game).
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March 20, 2013
Who are the best coaches in the NCAA Tournament?
Before looking more deeply at the individual brackets, we take a look at the top coaches in the 2013 NCAA Tournament.