Sixty-eight teams will compete in women's March Madness. But these six make up the short list of national championship contenders.

Catarina Ferreira finished with 16 points and 12 rebounds and Oregon State wrapped up its first season in the West Coast Conference with a tournament championship, ending two-time defending champion Portland’s 13-game win streak with a 59-46 victory.

The UConn women's basketball team clinched an NCAA Tournament berth with their Big East Tournament win and will learn their draw Sunday.

Already this postseason, six power conference coaching jobs have opened — one in the Big Ten, two in the SEC and three in the Big 12. For a while, I’ve been chatting with women’s basketball insiders about what this coaching cycle will look like because big changes are coming with revenue sharing and financial units (multi-million dollar payments the NCAA awards to conferences in March Madness tournaments) hitting the sport within months of one another.

ESPN is tracking all of the 2025-26 coaching carousel moves in women's college basketball throughout the offseason.

For the first time nine seasons, there will be a new head coach guiding the University of Arkansas women’s basketball program. The search for that person has begun Mike Neighbors, 148-114 in eight seasons the helm of the Razorbacks,