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The Arizona Wildcats earned a No. 2 seed in
Swish Appeal’s hypothetical NCAA Tournament bracket in 2020. So did the UCLA Bruins and Iowa Hawkeyes. The Northwestern Wildcats and Oregon State Beavers were 3 seeds and the Florida State Seminoles and Indiana Hoosiers were 4 seeds.
That handful of non-dominant programs represented the parity in women’s college basketball, which had only increased since the 11-time national champion UConn Huskies last won the title in 2016.
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At the beginning of this season we knew that UConn still wasn’t back to being a prohibitive favorite (even though they had added No. 1 Hoop Gurlz recruit Paige Bueckers) and by season’s end the door was wide-open for any of the top seven overall seeds to win the national championship. We also knew that many of the teams in the 3- to 7-seed range could make runs as well.